Improvements in and relating to Wire Fencing.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug.. 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Wire Fencing.
I, JOHN RICHMOND, of Dron, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire Farmer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying drawings:-
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This invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode of, and
means or appliances for securing the rows of wires to the vertical hanging
droppers" intermediately between the standards of wire or metal fences, and
which will dispense with the necessity of using wedges or special clips, and be more
simple, efficient and less expensive than the modes and means heretofore in use.
By my improvements the vertical hanging droppers of wire or metal' fences
which may be of various sections of metal, are formed with notches or grooves
embossed or pressed out of them on the one side at vertical distances apart to suit
the spaces desired between each longitudinal row or line of wire, which is secured
in these grooves by one, two, or more turns of thin wire round them and the
droppers, and secured by twisting the two ends of the fastening wires together, or
separately round the longitudinal wires or the droppers.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 represent a front and a side or edge elevation respectively
of a vertical dropper with the wires secured thereon in accordance with my
improvements.
Figure 3 is a side view of part of the dropper showing the notch or groove in
which the wires rest, but without the fastener, while
Figure 4 is a corresponding view to Figure 3, and
Figure 5 a plan showing one of the wires as secured thereon by the improved
form of double looped fastening shown as securing the upper and fourth rows of
ordinary wire a in Figures 1 and 2.
Referring to these drawings, the upper row No. 1 of ordinary wire a is shown
as secured in the notch or groove b formed in the dropper B by a double looped
fastener cc, shown to a large scale in Figures 4 and 5, formed by taking one turn
of thin wire c round the dropper B above the longitudinal wire a and then across
this wire a and another turn of the same wire c below the wire a, and twisting
the two ends by pliers or other instruments into a spiral knot or fastening c¹ and
then cutting them off short. The upper or barbed wire a' secured to the ordinary
standard posts, is shown in Figures 1 and 2 as preferably stayed or tied to the
top wire a No. 1 attached to the dropper B by a loop of wire a passing round it
and the first line of ordinary wire a and secured by twisting the ends at a* under
the barbed wire a¹. Or as indicated at Figure 1 two loops a' a" may be used in
the case of a plain top wire a' being adopted. The longitudinal wire No. 2 is
shown as secured within the groove b of the dropper B by two turns of wire c,
stretching diagonally below and above the wire a and twisted into a knot or
fastening at on the back of the dropper B. While line wire No. 3 is shown as
secured by a single diagonal turn of wire c also twisted at c¹ on the back of the
dropper B, and in which case the wire c may be thicker than when two turns are
used. Line No. 4 is shown as secured in the same manner as No. 1 and as shown
in Figures 4 and 5. While line No. 5 is secured by the same mode of fastening as
in lines 1 and 4 and in Figures 4 and 5, only the position of the fastener c, c, is
reversed, that is the crossing of the wire c is on the back of the dropper B, and
the loops are on each side of it gripping the longitudinal wire a and the securing
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page_text: twist e¹ is on the back of the dropper B. In some cases the longitudinal wires a
may be kneed up and down on each side of the groove in the dropper B, as
shown on line wire No. 3 in Figure 1, to prevent the dropper B from shifting on
the longitudinal wire a.
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 :-
First. The method of securing the longitudinal wires of wire fences to their
vertical droppers by grooves and twisted fasteners, substantially as herein described,
in reference to and by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In wire fences, the combination of grooves and one or more turns of
wire with their ends twisted, for securing the longitudinal wires to the vertical
droppers, substantially as herein described in reference to and by way of application
shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the with July, 1901
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.