IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDARDS FOR METAL FENCING AND HURDLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, Robert Ramsay Main, of Clydesdale Iron Works, Possilpark, Glasgow, in
the County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer of iron fencing do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDARDS FOR
METAL FENCING AND HURDLES to be as follows :-
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My said Invention has for its object to render metal fencing and hurdles better
able than as hitherto constructed to withstand a pressure or strain acting at right
angles to the line of fencing or to the plane of the hurdle. Hitherto the standards
for fencing or hurdles have commonly been made with the forks or prongs by
means of which they are fixed in the ground connected to the bottom of the main
part of the standard by horizontal or nearly horizontal parts placed at right angles'
to the line of fencing, and when a force acts on the standard tending to turn it
down at right angles these horizontal connecting parts cut edgeways through the
earth in their own plane with comparative case. By this Invention however the
horizontal connecting parts referred to are made oblique or diagonal as regards
the line of fencing, the breadth of the standard itself being kept at right angles to
that line as usual and with this improved disposition of the parts much greater
resisting strength is obtained with given sizes or dimensions. When the standard
is of the kind having the prongs equidistantly on opposite sides of it, the horizontal
connecting parts are by preference disposed in line with each other or nearly so;
they may however in some cases be disposed in other ways; as for example with
the part on one side at right angles and that on the other side oblique, or with the
obliquities both towards the same side of the standard. When one prong is a
direct continuation of the standard the horizontal part connecting the other prong
is made oblique. The said horizontal parts may be straight or curved, and their
flat sides may be either vertical, horizontal, oblique, or twisted.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent,

page_text: I, ROBERT RAMSAY MAIN, of Clydesdale Iron Works, Possilpark, Glasgow, in
the County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer of iron fencing, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDARDS FOR
METAL FENCING AND HURDLES " and in what manner the saine is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
that is to say :—
My said Invention has for its object to render metal fencing and hurdles better
able than as hitherto constructed to withstand a pressure or strain acting at right
angles to the line of fencing or to the plane of the hurdle. Hitherto the standards
for fencing or hurdles have commonly been made with the forks or prongs, by
means of which they are fixed in the ground, connected to the bottom of the maiu
part of the standard by horizontal or.nearly horizontal parts placed at right angles
to the line of fencing, and when a force acts on the standard tending to turn it
down at right angles, these horizontal connecting parts cut edgeways through the
earth in their own plane with comparative ease. By my Invention however the
horizontal connecting parts referred to are made oblique or diagonal as regards
the line of fencing, the breadth of the standard itself being kept at right angles to
that line as usual; and with this improved disposition of the parts much greater
resisting strength is obtained with given sizes or dimensions. When the standard
is of the kind having the prongs equidistantly on opposite sides of it the horizontal
connecting parts are by preference disposed in line with each other or nearly so;
they may however in some cases be disposed in other ways, as for example; with
the part on one side at right angles and that on the other side oblique, or with the
obliquities both towards the same side of the standard. When one prong is a
direct continuation of the standard the horizontal part connecting the other prong
is made oblique. The said horizontal parts may be straight or curved; and their
flat sides may be either vertical, horizontal, oblique, or twisted.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
showing by way of example a few of the various modes in which my improvements
may be applied.
Figures 1 and 2, of the drawings are a sectional plan and an elevation of the
lower forked part of a standard for fencing or hurdles, having its horizontal
part, H, set obliquely on both sides of the main part, S, of the standard, whilst the
prongs, P, are set with their flat sides at right angles to the standards, S. In these
figures a vertical line through the standard, S, corresponds to the plane or line of
fencing, the standard, S, having its flat sides at right angles thereto as usual.
Figures, 3, and 4, are similar views showing the horizontal part H, as curved so
as to have the prongs, P, in a vertical plane oblique to that of the line of fencing.
In the modification shown in figures 5, and 6, the horizontal part, H, is made at
right angles on one side and oblique on the other side.
In the modification shown in figures, 7, and 8, one prong P, is a direct
continnation of the standard, S, the other prong, P, being connected thereto by an
oblique horizontal part.
In the modification shown in figures, 9, and 10, the prongs, P, and horizontal
part, H, are made in the ordinary way but the lower part of the standard, S, is
twisted so as to render the horizontal part, H, oblique to it.
In all the figures the standard and prongs are represented as made of the
simplest form of flat bar iron,-but the iron may be of any other convenient or
suitable section; and the pronged part may be fixed to the main part, S, of the

page_text: standard by welding or in any other suitable manner.
The horizontal part, H, may
be corrugated to increase its hold of the ground or it may be of any convenient
shape provided it connects one or both prongs, P, to the standard, S, so as to be
displaced to one side or the other of the vertical plane passing through the standard
and at right angles to the line of fencing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The making of pronged standards for fencing or hurdles with one or both prongs
in a vertical plane or planes oblique to the vertical plane or line of the fencing or
hurdles substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this twenty-fourth day of October 1884.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.