IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METAL FENCING, HURDLES AND GATES"
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anthony Whitgrove of the City of Worcester for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METAL FENCING,
HURDLES AND GATES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anthony Whitgrove at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1883.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ANTHONY WHITGROVE of the City of Worcester
CONSTRUCTION OF METAL FENCING, HURDLES AND GATES"
My invention consists of improvements in the construction of metal fencing,
hurdles and gates and relates to the means of connecting the horizontal bars or
rails to the standards or vertical bars.
For this purpose I form a recess or incision in the edge of the standard at the
point where the horizontal bar has to come and I employ a coupling or clip of
U shape to embrace the standard at this point. In each side of the coupling is a
hole to give passage to the horizontal bar. The parts are connected together by
passing the horizontal bar through the coupling and throug. the recess in the
standard and then driving a cotter or pin between the standard and coupling so as
to lock or tighten up the bar in the recess.
By means of my invention all the bars are securely fastened where they are
connected with the standards so that the fencing is not liable to get out of shape;
and the standards can be placed at any distance apart according to the strength of
the fencing required.

page_text: '
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Anthony Whitgrove in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th December 1883.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ANTHONY WHITGROVE of the City of Worcester
CONSTRUCTION OF METAL FENCING, HURDLES AND GATES".
My invention consists of improvements in the construction of metal fencing,
hurdles and gates and relates to the means of connecting the horizontal bars or
rails to the standards or vertical bars.
For this purpose I form a recess or incision in the edge of the standard at the
point where the horizontal bar has to come and I employ a coupling or clip of
U shape to embrace the standard at this point. In each side of the coupling is a
hole to give passage to the horizontal bar. The parts are connected together by
passing the horizontal bar through the coupling and through the recess in the
standard and then driving a cotter or pin between the standard and coupling so as
to lock or tighten up the bar in the recess.
By means of my invention all the bars are securely fastened where they are
connected with the standards so that the fencing is not liable to get out of shape;
and the standards can be placed at any distance apart according to the strength of
the fencing required.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.-Figure 1 is a side view
and Figure 2 a transverse section of a standard or vertical bar a formed with
recesses or incisions b b in its edge at the points where the horizontal bars have
to come. Figure 3 is a view showing a horizontal bar c connected or secured to
the standard a by means of the coupling or clip d and cotter e as already explained.
Figure 4 is a separate plan or top view of the coupling and Figure 5 a view of the
cotter. There is a hole f in each side of the coupling large enough to give passage
to the horizontal bar. It will at once be seen from Figure 3 that the parts are
-connected together by passing the horizontal bar c through the holes ff in the
coupling and through the recess b in the standard and by then driving the cotter e
between the standard and coupling so as to lock or tighten up the bar o in the
recess b.
Figure 6 is a perspective view of a piece of fencing constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 7 is a perspective view of another piece in which the position of the
parts is reversed, that is to say, the recesses bb are made in the horizontal bars
while the vertical bars are passed through the holes in the couplings and through
the recesses.
In the case of wire or other small fencing I find it advantageous to extend the
holes ff to the bottom of the couplings as seen in Figure 8 so that in case a
standard gets broken it can be taken down and a new one substituted without
the wires being cut or pulled down.
It will be evident that the standards and horizontal bars can be of any desired
shape, round square oval flat or otherwise, the recesses in the standards and the
holes in the coupling being formed to correspond.
Although I have only shown my invention as applied to the construction of
fencing, its application to hurdles and gates will be fully understood without
further explanation.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim :-
Connecting the horizontal bars or rails to the standards or vertical bars of metal
fencing hurdles and gates by the means and in manner substantially as here-in-
before described.
In witness whereof I the said Anthony Whitgrove have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fourth. day of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
ANTHONY WHITGROVE. (LS.)