A Fence or Guard for Protecting Wheat-stacks and the like from Vermin.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Fence or Guard for Protecting Wheat-stacks and the like from
Vermin.
I, WILLIAM WATSON, of 45 Rosary Road, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, in the
County of Norfolk, Hairdresser, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to a fence or guard for protecting wheat stacks and the
like from the depredations of rats and other vermin.
My said improved fence is made of suitable wire netting preferably of small
mesh, secured to framing posts or hurdles. The said posts or hurdles are adapted
to be driven into the ground for holding the fence in place. Along the top of
the fence I arrange a projecting sheet or shelf of iron plate or other material
of suitable width inclined outwards at a convenient angle, for the purpose of
preventing the vermin climbing over the fence. The lower part of the fence is
not secured to the posts but is arranged to swing horizontally so as to either be
inclined or be in the same plane as the upright or vertical part of the same.
The said lower part is embedded in the ground either vertically or at an angle,
and is of such dimensions as to prevent rats and similar animals from burrowing
underneath and thus getting inside the fence.
I may make my improved fence in sections as light hurdles so as to be portable
and readily taken from place to place as required and so as to be very easily set
up around a wheat-stack or the like by bolting several sections together. The
netting may be allowed to overlap at one or both ends of the sections so as to leave
no gap between the same when set up.
My improved fence is made sufficiently high to prevent rats and the like jumping
over.
It is obvious that I may make my improved fencing of any suitable materials
and dimensions without departing from the nature of my invention.
1. of Tunuar 1905
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London. W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Fence or Guard for Protecting Wheat-stacks and the like from
Vermin.
1, WILLIAM WATSON, of 4 Rosary Road, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich in the
County of Norfolk, Hairdresser, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved fence or guard for protecting wheatstacks
or the like or enclosures from the depredations of rats or other vermin.
My said improved fence is made of suitable wire netting secured to framing
posts or hurdles. The said posts or hurdles are adapted to be driven into the
ground for holding the fence in place. Along the top of the fence provide a
shelf of iron plate or other material of suitable width inclined outwards at a
convenient angle, and also provide at the lower part of the fence a wire netting
flap or guard which is embedded in the ground.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood I will now proceed

page_text: to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing which is a
perspective view of two sections of fencing constructed according to my invention.
A are the posts or frames which are driven into the ground and support the
wire netting B which may be of ordinary pattern with small meshes.
C is a
shelf arranged along the top of the fence inclined at a suitable angle. I prefer
to make this upper shelf of thin galvanized iron plate. D is a netting flap
which is preferably embedded in the ground as shewn. The said flap D is pre-
ferably made of wire netting of small mesh. I prefer to make my fence of the
following dimensions, the upright part B about 2 feet high the shelf C about one
foot wide, and the flap D about 2 feet wide. I also make the fence in sections
or light hurdles, each section being provided with three or other convenient or
suitable number of styles for bedding in the ground. A convenient length for
each section is about six feet. I preferably arrange that the lower flaps Ď shall
overlap at either or both ends as shewn at D' so that there shall be no gap or
opening between successive sections. The hurdles which are used at the corners
or angles of the fencing have their top shelves projecting at one end and cut so
as to form a mitre and thus close in the corner, and the flaps or guards D
at the bottom are made sufficiently long to overlap each other at the corners.
My improved fence is very useful for placing round wheatsacks and the like to
protect such stacks from rats and similar vermin. It is so high that rats and like
animals cannot leap over it, and the upper inclined shelf prevents them from
climbing over. The lower flap is embedded in the ground to such a depth as will
prevent animals from burrowing or tunnelling beneath the same and thus getting
an entrance inside the fence. My improved fence is moreover light and easily
transportable from place to place.
It is obvious that I may make my improved fencing of different materials and
dimensions from those hereinabove stated without departing from the nature of my
invention.
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 :-
An improved fence or guard having an upper inclined shelf and a lower flap and
constructed substantially as described for the purpose specified.
Dated this 10th 1
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.