Improvements in Frame Work for Fencing, Gates, Roofing, and Portable Buildings.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 17th Dec. 1895-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Frame Work for Fencing, Gates, Roofing, and
Portable Buildings.
I CORNELIUS HORTON of Newton Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Estate Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to fencing, railings, gates and is also applicable to
roofing and portable buildings, and the same can be made much cheaper, and stronger
than at present is the case.
In describing this invention as applied to fencing & railings I form the vertical
uprights or pillars preferably of cold drawn steel tubing, or of any other metal of a
round or other shaped hollow section the said tubes are passed through holes made in
the two or more metal horizontal cross bars, the said bars being of any suitable
section and fixed to the uprights by means of keys, wedges, or the like or by split
pins. I screw or fasten into each of the said uprights or pillars suitable ornamental
knobs if desired. At suitable distances apart to form the fencing or railing are pillars
carried by earth plates, these said pillars, being made to have fixed thereon suitable
receiving pieces to receive the ends of the said horizontal bars. The said pieces are
made in halves, and then are placed round the pillars and the halves are then bolted
together to grip the same; each half having suitable jaws, or recessed bosses formed
thereon to receive the ends of the said horizontal bars which are then fastened by pins
or bolts passing through the said jaws, or recessed bosses and the ends of the horizontal
bars.
Or instead of making the receiving pieces as above described I may make them to
slide on to the said pillars and to be fixed thereto by set pins or in any other well
known manner.
In a modification of my invention for making a fence or rail that will allow the
same to contract or expand, I form on the said pieces that grip or are fixed to the
pillars longer bosses, suitably made to receive the ends of the horizontal bars and to
allow the same to slide therein by means of a pin fastened through the end of the
said bars and projecting each side of the same to work in suitable slotted holes formed
in the said bosses, so as to allow the fence or rail to give and take as required.
In applying this invention to gates and the like I make a gate from tubes similarly
as herein before stated, the hinges being formed in one with the pieces that grip the
main pillars of the gate, the said pieces having suitable bosses for receiving cross bars
or the like. I also can attach or form therewith a catch on to one of the said
pieces.
In applying my invention to roofing or portable buildings I make the connecting
pieces of the shape required to form the roof or building with the boss or bosses
carried from the said pieces at any desirable angle that may be required the said
pieces also having the bosses if necessary made suitable for allowing the parts that join
thereto to expand and contract.
Dated this 12th day of March 1896

page_text: Improvements in Frame Work for Fencing, Gates, Roofing, and
Portable Buildings.
1 CORNELIUS HORTON of Newton Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Estate Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to fencing, railings gates and is also applicable to
roofing and portable buildings.
In referring to the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shews a general view with my invention applied to a part of a fencing or
railing; Fig. 2 shews one of the parts of the same enlarged;
Fig. 3 shews one of the receiving pieces made in halves according to this
invention, Fig. 4 is another form of the same, Fig. 5 is another form and
Fig. 6 shews my invention as applied to hinges for gates.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
In carrying out this invention as applied to fencing or railings I form the vertical
uprights, or, pillars a out of cold drawn steel tubing or of any other metal, and of a
round or other section, and I fasten these said uprights or pillars a with keys a¹ (or
wedges or the like may be used) to holes in horizontal cross bars B' B³.
At suitable distances apart to form the fencing or railings A are pillars C and to
these said pillars C are fixed receiving pieces D'having jaws or recessed parts d' d'
for the ends of the horizontal bars B' B' to fit and be bolted thereto by bolts d³.
These receiving pieces D are made in halves d' d and are gripped on to the pillars C
by the bolt d, or as shewn by Fig. 4 the receiving piece D is made to slide on to the
pillar C and be held thereon by set pin E. When the fencing or railings A is required to
expand or contract the receiving piece D is made with long recessed bosses ff the
ends of the horizontal bars B1 B2 being made to slide therein by means of
pins g' g² fixed in the ends b'62 and working in slotted holes f³ f* of the recessed
bosses.
The pillars C are formed with earth plates C¹.
The receiving pieces D are made also with the one side having jaws or recessed
parts, when the fencing or railing A are required to end, or the said jaws or
recessed parts may be formed at right angles or more than two of the said jaws or
recessed parts can be formed on the receiving piece D when required.
When building gates according to this invention I form the connecting parts
similarly as above described, the hinges H (see Fig. 6) being made in one with the
said receiving pieces D.
This invention can also be used for roofing and portable buildings in which case
the different stays or connections are made to fit receiving pieces similarly as herein-
before described and illustrated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;
1st. In a fencing or railing formed of tubes a having horizontal cross bars B¹ B'
for the said tubes to pass through; receiving pieces D formed with jaws or recessed
parts did to receive the ends 6 62 of the cross bars B1 B2 and having the receiving
pieces D to grip the pillars that carry the lengths of tubing that forms the fencing

page_text: or railing substantially as described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the
drawing.
2nd. Forming the receiving pieces D with long bosses ff2 made hollow for the
ends of the horizontal cross bars B' B2 to slide therein and slots f f and
pins g g for the purpose herein described and illustrated by Fig. 5 of the drawing.
3rd. Forming gate hinges in one with the said receiving pieces D substantially as
described and illustrated by Fig. 6 of the drawing.
Dated this 16th day of December 1896.
CORNELIUS HORTON.