IMPROVEMENTS IN FENCING
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Greig of Edinburgh and John Leck of Brora
both in Scotland for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FENCING'
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Greig and John Leck
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd December 1882.
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GEORGE GREIG of Edinburgh and JOHN LECK of Brora both in Scotland
IMPROVEMENTS IN FENCING
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This Invention has for its object improvements in wire fencing.
In order to connect the wires with the uprights or "droppers" of the fence we
form slight indents in the uprights or droppers in which the wires may lie.
We also provide sliders with inclined tongues upon the uprights or droppers the
tongues project beyond the face and overlap the wire.
When the wire is in place the slider is brought down until it jams the wire into
the indent provided for it.
We flatten and punch the wire at intervals and introduce thorn like points of
wire into the holes; these are fastened by bending and also become nipped in the
holes when the wire is exposed to longitudinal strain.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Greig and John Leck in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st June 1883.
GEORGE GREIG of Edinburgh and JOHN LECK of Brora both in Scotland
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FENCING
This Invention has for its object improvements in wire fencing.
In order to connect the wires with the uprights or "droppers" of the fence we
form slight indents in the uprights or droppers in which the wires may lie, we also
provide sliders with inclined tongues upon the uprights or droppers the tongues
project beyond the face and overlap the wire.
When the wire is in place the slider is brought down until it jams the wire into
the indent provided for it.
In the Drawings annexed Figure 1 is an elevation and Figure 2 is a plan of a
portion of a fence "dropper" or upright and illustrates the method of securing the
fence wires thereto in accordance with our Invention.
A is the dropper or upright-B is a portion of one of the fence wires-it lays in
a notch or indentation provided for it in the edges of the dropper or upright.
C is a slider by which the wire is secured in its place, in this case it completely
surrounds the dropper or upright and it is capable of sliding freely upon it. C¹, is
the inclined tongue of the slider which holds the wire in its place. The same
method of retaining the wire is applicable both to the droppers which simply rest
upon the ground and to the fence standards which are firmly fixed in the earth.
Or the wires may be passed through holes in the droppers or standards but this
method is not applicable when barbed wires are employed. Figures 3 and 4 shew
a portion of a standard. with the wires thus held.
In this case also the slider does not pass completely around the upright but has
two side cheeks and the tongue is double one part on each cheek. Figures 5 and 6
shew another form; here the dropper (or it may be the standard) is of a T form
section and the slider embraces the head but not the stem.
Other sections of dropper or standard may be employed each with a slider adapted
to it substantially as described.
What we claim is― .
First. The means of securing the wires to the droppers standards or uprights
consisting in the employment of sliders with inclined tongues retaining the wires
in recesses in the edges of the uprights substantially as described in respect to
Figures 1. 2. 4 and 5.
Second. The modification described in respect to Figures 3 and 4 in which the
part C does not embrace the part A.
Third. The modification described in respect to Figures 3 and 4 in which the
wire in place of being held against the edge is threaded through a hole in the
part A.
In witness whereof I the said George Greig have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand