IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METAL HURDLES, FENCING, AND GATES
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bailey at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th June 1880.
WILLIAM BAILEY, Foreman in the employment of Messieurs Bayliss, Jones
and Bayliss, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Iron Fencing
Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METAL HURDLES,
FENCING, AND GATES."
This Invention relates to a novel method of fixing the horizontal bars of metal
hurdles, fencing, and gates to the uprights, and the vertical bars of vertical-bar
hurdles, fencing, and gates to the horizontals.
I will first describe my Invention as it relates to hurdles and fencing in which
the bars are horizontal, after which its application to vertical-bar hurdles and
fencing and to gates will be readily explained.
According to one modification of this Invention a hole is punched through the
upright at the point where it is to be connected to the horizontal bar, the said hole
being as is usual of the same shape and size as the section of the bar, but with
what would be its vertical axis, according to the ordinary construction, inclined.
The bar has an inclined niche cut out on one side of it and extending from the top,
where it is cut in to any desired depth to about the middle of the depth of the bar,
whero the inclined niche runs out to the surface, and also a corresponding niche at
the under and at the opposite side of the bar. The bar is fixed to the upright by
first threading it through the hole punched to receive it and then turning it into
its proper position vertically, whereby the edges of the metal around the hole enter
the niches aforesaid, and thus prevent the upright from moving endways of the
bar. The ends of the bars may be fixed in the manner herein before described to
the outside uprights of hurdles, as well as to the intermediate uprights, the ends
however being riveted up to prevent the bar from turning and to make a rigid
joint; or the ends may be formed and fixed in the usual manner. In the case of
fencing, any suitable means, such, for instance, as keys, may be employed to secure
the continuous lengths of bar from turning. It will be obvious that this Invention
is applicable to any section of bar, with the exception of a true circle.
Another modification of this Invention consists in forming the holes to receive
the bar of a shape compounded of the holes aforesaid and corresponding vertical
holes, but the latter shorter than the depth of the bar and cutting niches, one at
the top and one at the bottom of the bar, so that when the bar is turned in the

page_text: manner aforesaid the edges of the metal at the top and bottom of the vertical hole
enter the corresponding niches in the bar.
The method of fixing vertical bars to the horizontals in vertical-bar hurdles and
fencing corresponds to the method hereinbefore described for fixing the horizontal
bars to the uprights, and does not therefor require detailed description. Of course
the vertical bars when fixed according to this Invention must be kept from turning
by being riveted at one or both ends (whether the ends are fixed according to this
Invention or in the ordinary manner), or by keys or other means.
The method of fixing the bars to the uprights or to the horizontals of gates
corresponds to the method hereinbefore described of fixing the bars in the case of
hurdles and fencing, and does not therefor require detailed description.