An Improved Post for Wire Fencing and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec.. 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Post for Wire Fencing and the like.
1, EDUARD ROTT of 259 Altenmühlerstrasse, Dassel, Hanover in the Empire
of Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an improved sheet metal post for wire fencing
and the like intended to replace the ordinary wooden posts, which in spite of all
impregnation with preservatives, still rot in a more or less short time.
My improved post is formed of galvanised or painted, corrugated or plain sheet
iron, and is provided on its longitudinal edges with slots or notches widening at
their ends, which notches serve to receive the wires. These notches, which are
stamped or cut out, are arranged at different heights facing one another in such
a way that the slits on the right-hand side stand relatively at a higher level than
those on the left-hand side or vice versa.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of such a sheet metal post;
Figure 2, a foot of a post,
Figure 3, a second form of construction of a foot for a sheet metal post,
Figure 4, various cross sections of posts,
Figure 5, a piece of a post rolled out flat showing the notches in the same,
Figure 6 shows the same piece of sheet metal suitably bent or curved.
The sheet metal piece a is provided at various points of its height with slots or
notches bb set obliquely opposite one another. The notches may be cut or stamped
out and are formed V-shape at their inner ends or bottoms. The sheet metal may
have any suitable form of section, three forms of which are shown in Figure 4,
and in order to enable it the better to resist influences of the weather it is
galvanised or painted. At the lower end, the post has one or more slits cut in it,
and the resulting strips of sheet metal are bent out so as to form feet c.
When in use the post is as usual embedded in the earth and secured by stamping
the earth round it.
Two feet prevent it tipping over or wobbling. The wire, which is drawn taut,
and which may if desired be barbed wire, is inserted in the slots b, so that it
finally enters the V-shaped openings d and remains fixed there. In order to
better retain the wire and to render it impossible for it to slip out again, the
flaps E are bent round, so that the V-shaped opening is closed.
The advantages of this improved sheet metal post consist mainly in that it
possesses a considerably greater capability of resisting influences of the weather
than the posts hitherto employed, and further that the cost of manufacture of
the same is very moderate.
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 post of the kind described, made of galvanised or painted, smooth
or corrugated sheet metal of suitable sectional form, with its lower end formed into
feet, and having at various points in its height slits or notches cut or stamped in
its longitudinal edges obliquely opposite one another, said notches having their

page_text: inner or bottom ends formed V-shape to receive the strained wire, substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 21st day of November 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.