Improvements in Metallic Fencing.
Year: 1896

page_text: .Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1996-Accepted, 12th Dec. 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Fencing.
I, ALFONS MAUSER, of Schramberg, Würtemberg in the Empire of Germany,
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:-
In many branches of industry large quantities of sheet metal strips are produced.
as waste metal, which have not, hitherto, been employed for any useful purpose..
The inventor has found that this form of metal waste may be advantageously
employed for making fences, the said strips being arranged one above the other
and adapted to more or less overlap; the overlapping parts being secured together-
by means of hooks, clamps, rivets or the like and thus filling up the space between
the posts, rods or bars to which they are attached at their ends.
Fences produced in this manner are very cheap and produce very effective
patterns which may be varied by overlapping more or less the strips, and which
also vary according to the shape of the apertures stamped in the strips. Poles,
rods or bars to which the strips are attached at their ends enable the strips, which
of themselves could be easily bent, to better withstand an average (sideward).
pressure, thus preventing any disadvantageous bulging of the same and causing
them to be subjected rather to a pull, which is resisted by the said rods or bars.
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible, reference is
had to the accompanying drawings in which similar parts are represented by similar-
letters of reference throughout the several views :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a part of a fence constructed according to the-
present invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same;
Figure 3 a detail elevation of a part of one square of the fence,
Figure 4 a section on line x-x of Figure 3 and
Figure 5 a section on line y-y of Figure 3.
The fence is composed of a number of sheet metal strips a having circular or
other apertures stamped out along the same. The strips may be connected
together in the following manner: Along one edge of each strip, tongues b are
formed, whilst the other edge is provided with slots c as shown at Figure 4.
The strips are then laid with their edges partly overlapping and the tongues of
one strip passed through the slots of the under or overlying strip and bent round
as shown.
At two opposite sides of each square, or if necessary at all four sides, the fence
thus formed is secured to poles, rods or bars d in the manner and for the purpose.
specified, said poles, rods or bars being fixed to posts or standards in any suitable
manner.
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:-
Fencing formed of perforated sheet metal waste, the single strips of sheet-
metal (a) being overlapped at the edges and secured together by means of hooks (b).
rivets, clamps or the like to form surfaces of fencing which in their turn are secured.

page_text: to rods, poles or bars (d) at at least two opposite sides to prevent bending or
bulging as specified.
Dated this 10th day of November 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.