Improvements relating to the Method of and Means for Straining Wire Fencing.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Method of and Means for Straining
Wire Fencing.
I, DAVID ROWELL, of 31 Old Queen Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer; 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:-
Heretofore it has been customary to effect the straining of wire fencing by
affixing the ends of the wires to screw bolts having a hook or an eye at one end
the steins of which said bolts are passed through holes in the straining posts and
tightened up by nuts. By this method of attachment to the straining post it is
difficult to put the requisite tension on the wire as in screwing it up the nut takes
a bearing against the immoveable straining post. Furthermore when a straining
post is used to strain sections of fencing in different directions, it is obvious that
the different bolts cannot be passed through the same hole or point in the posts
and that therefore the sections of wire fencing will be out of line.
The object of this invention is to effect the straining of wire fencing in such a
way as to avoid the objectionable features hereinbefore indicated and at the same
time to provide a method and means whereby the straining is effected in a simple
and efficient manner admitting of easy and rapid adjustment and re-adjustment.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. I is a perspective view of a double strain-
ing post made of T iron to which the ends of the wires are secured in the manner
which forms the subject of this my invention; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged per-
spective view of the straining bolt and its connections showing the manner in
which the wire is secured and the straining thereof effected.
The straining post A. is provided with a number of apertures a arranged in two
vertical rows one beside the other, the apertures being made at the various heights
or distances at which the various wires B are carried. The end of each wire B
is passed through an eye e in one end of an angle plate C, or the end of the angle
plate C may be furnished with a hook instead of the eye and the end of the wire
looped thereover. The other end C of the angle plate is made with an aperture
or perforation large enough to allow the screwed stem of the hook bolt D to pass
casily therethrough.
The hook bolt D is engaged with the proper aperture a and tension put on the
wire B by screwing up the nut E on the bolt D. The nut E takes a bearing
against the angle plate C which being free to move longitudinally on the bolt is
pressed thercover by the advancing nut thus straining the wire B.
When a single straining post only is required it may be made of L section,
and by providing the two webs thereof with properly placed apertures, the post
may be used to aflix and strain wires at right angles or one side may be used to
strain and the other to tie the ends of the wires thereto. Similarly, the web A¹
of the Tiron post. A may, if provided with apertures such as the apertures a be
used to strain or tie wires at right angles to the wires shown in Fig. 1.

page_text: 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:-
1. For straining wire fencing, a straining post having apertures therein, a
screw bolt having a hook nose engaging said apertures, a plate freely moveable on
the bolt stem and adjustable thereover by a nut working on said bolt, said plates
having a hook or eye to which the end of the wire to be strained can be attached
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In combination with a post having suitable apertures and adapted for strain-
ing wire fencing, a hook bolt to engage said apertures, an apertured plate loose on
the bolt stem to which said plate the end of the wire is secured, and a nut work-
ing on said hook-bolt and moving the apertured plate therealong, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in Fig. of the accompanying drawings
and for the purpose stated.
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F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane London W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.