IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCES AND BARBS, FOR THE SAME.
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Donison Hunt, of Scott, in the County of
Cortland and State of New York, United States of America, for the Invention
of" IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCES AND BARBS, FOR THE SAME.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Donison Hunt at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1876.
WILLIAM DONISON HUNT, of Scott, in the County of Cortland, State of New
York, United States of America. "IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE FENCES. AND BARBS
FOR THE SAME."
Iron and steel wire, either plain, galvanized, or painted, has been used for fences
by being stretched from one post to another, but it is often broken by pressure of
cattle against the same, or by persons climbing over the fence.
My Invention relates to barbs applied to such fence wire at suitable intervals
according to the use to which such fence to be put; these barbs are pointed and
act as spurs or lances in protecting the fence wire. These barbs will usually be
put upon the wire by the manufacturer, but they may be put upon the wire after it
has been stretched from post to post.
The barbs are sometimes in the form of rotary spurs or circular wheels with
points either loose upon the fence wire, or secured between or against washers or
clamped to the wire."
In cases where the circular spurs are clamped to the wires they are by preference
made with a slit extending out from the central hole to one edge so as to be placed
laterally upon the wire and then closed upon and clamped to the wire by pincers or
similar instruments that grasps the pointed wheel or circular spurs and compresses
them edgewise.
Where the circular spur is between or against washers or rings the said washers
or-rings-may-be-compressed-at-opposite-sides-sufficiently to-partially close-the--
central hole and clamp the washer or ring tightly to the wire. When the circular
spur is made with a split tubular body to fit around the fence wire the same is
secured by compressing the tubular portion upon the wire. Two of the circular
spurs can be connected by a bar passing from one to the other.
The spurs may be made of a plate with a hole near the middle, and with two or
Pasice &

page_text: more points threaded upon the fence wire, and a second wire of the same size or
smaller twisted with the wire carrying the spurs will confine such spurs and prevent
them moving along the wire.
The spurs may also be made of a wire or strip of metal either flat, round, or
prismatic, and pointed at the ends, and wound around the fence wire with the
sharp ends projecting.. If the strip is folded, placed around the wire and compressed
thereto it presents a compound point, but where one or more turns are made of such
pointed wire or strip around the fence wire the ends project from the fence wire in
different directions for the purposes aforesaid.
The barbs may be held in place by compressing them into the fence wire, or such
fence wire may be square or prismatic or have a rib upon it in order that the rib or
angles may be notched to prevent the barbs sliding on the wire.
Two barbs bent U shape and set upon the wire from opposite sides are held in
place by twisting one or both of the prongs around the wire, so that the four prongs
will stand in different directions from the wire.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Donison Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
May 1877.
WILLIAM DONISON HUNT, of Scott, in the County of Cortland and State of New
York, United States of America. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCES AND BARBS
FOR THE SAME."
Iron and steel wire, either plain, galvanized, or painted, has been used for fences
by being stretched from one post to another, but it is often broken by pressure of
cattle against the same, or by persons climbing over the fence.
My Invention relates to barbs applied to such fence wire at suitable intervals
according to the use to which such fence is to be put.
In Fig. 1, I have shown a section of panel of my fence. These barbs are pointed
and act as spurs or lances in protecting the fence wire. These barbs will usually
be put upon the wire by the manufacturer, but they may be put upon the wire c
after it has been stretched from post to post a.
The barbs are sometimes in the form of rotary spurs or circular wheels b with
points, see Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, either loose upon the fence wire c or secured between or
against washers & or clamped to the wire.
In cases where the circular spurs are clamped to the wires they are by preference
made with a slit extending out from the central hole to one edge, as seen in Fig. 4,
so as to be placed laterally upon the wire, and then closed upon and clamped to the
wire by pincers or similar instruments that grasp the pointed wheel or circular spurs
and compress them edgewise. Where the circular spur b is between or against
washers or rings d, said washers or rings may be compressed at opposite sides
sufficiently to partially close the central hole and clamp the washer or ring & tightly
to the wire c.
When the circular spur is made with a split tubular body g to fit around the
fence wire, as seen in Figs. 5 and 6, the same is secured by compressing the tubular
portion upon the wire c. Two of the circular spurs 6 can be connected by a bar k
passing from one to the other.
The spurs b may be made of a plate with a hole near the middle, and with two
or more points threaded upon the fence wire, see Figs. 7 and 14, and a second wire
of the same size or smaller twisted with the wire carrying the spurs will confine
such spurs and prevent them moving along the wire.
The spurs may also be made of a wire or strip of metal either flat, as in Fig. 8,
round, as in Figs. 9, 10, and 11, or prismatic, and pointed at the ends and wound
around the fence wire with the sharp ends projecting. If the strip is folded, placed

page_text: around the wire, and compressed thereto, as at 1, Figs. 1 and 8, it presents a
compound point, but when one or more turns are made of such pointed wire or
strip, as in Figs. 11 and 12, around the fence wire, the ends project from the fence
wire in different directions, for the purposes aforesaid.
The barbs may be held in place by compressing them into the fence wire, or such
fence wire may be square or prismatic or have a rib i, Figs. 11, 12, & 13, upon it
in order that the rib or angles may be notched to prevent the barbs sliding on the
wire.
Two barbs 6 bent U shape and set upon the wire from opposite sides are held in
place by twisting one or both of the prongs around the wire, as seen in Figs. 1, 9,
& 10, so that the four prongs will stand in different directions from the wire.
In Fig. 15 the flat strip of metal c is armed with the barbs b which are formed
by diagonal cuts made at the edges, and V shaped cuts at the center of the strip,
and then bending up the metal contiguous to the cuts, as represented.
What I claim as my Invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, the
fence wire having projecting barbs or spurs, substantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Donison Hunt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, A.D. 1877.
。 Witnesses,
WILLIAM DONISON HUNT. (L.S.)
BOURDON HOSEA POTTER SCOTT, N.Y.
WILLET HERMAN FRINK SCOTT, N.Y.