Improvements in Telegraph Poles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
Improvements in Telegraph Poles.
I, THOMAS GEORGE MARSH, of Dixon's Green, Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Mining Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
According to this invention I make metal telegraph poles in sections for easy
transport which fit the one into the other. The bottom section is preferably
provided with a foot which is buried in the ground and its upper end has a conical
socket. The intermediate sections are conical at their lower ends and have cuni-al
sockets at their upper ends whilst the top section is conical at its lower end. The
conical ends of each section fit into the sockets of the sections below them and are
preferably fixed by means of a projection on them which passes down a groove in
the socket and by turning them is forced along an incline or groove at the bottom
of the socket.
The upper section or the upper part of it may be covered with insulating glaze
or material as is also the cross bar carrying the usual insulators so that if the wire
becomes detached from the insulator and drops on the cross bar or comes against
the pole it is still insulated to a certain extent.
Dated this 10th day of March 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Telegraph Poles.
I, THOMAS GEORGE MARSH, of Dixon's Green, Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Mining Engineer, 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 :-
According to this invention I make metal telegraph poles in sections for easy
transport which fit the one into the other. The bottom section is preferably
provided with a foot which is buried in the ground and its upper end has a conical
socket. The intermediate sections are conical at their lower ends and have conical
sockets at their upper ends whilst the top section is conical at its lower end. The
conical ends of each section fit into the sockets of the sections below them and are
preferably fixed by means of a projection on them which passes down a groove in
the socket and by turning them is forced along an incline or groove at the bottom
of the socket.
The upper section or the upper part of it may be covered with insulating glaze
or material as is also the cross bar carrying the usual insulators so that if the wire
becomes detached from the insulator and drops on the cross bar or comes against
the pole it is still insulated to a certain extent.

page_text: a are projections at the lower ends of the sections which when putting the pole
together are passed down the grooves & in the tops of the adjacent sections nud are
forced under the inclines c.
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
clnim is :-
:-
1. Telegraph poles made in sections connected together substantially as
described.
2. Telegraph poles having the upper part and the cross bar covered with
insulating material substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of December 1893.
THOMAS G. MARSH.