Improvements in Apparatus for Straining Wire Fences.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Straining Wire Fences.
I, WILLIAM MCFARLANE, of 43 Broad Street Avenue, in the City of London,
Merchant, (a communication to me from abroad by Walter Charles Orsmond,
of Coville, Herschel, Cape Colony General Dealer) do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention the straining apparatus is placed on the same side
of the post as the wire to be strained instead of in the post or on the other side of
it to the wire.
The strainer consists of a frame carrying a clip and also a barrel the latter
carrying a ring of ratchet teeth engaging with a pawl on the frame so that the
barrel can only be turned in one direction. A screw and thumb nut or some other
device is provided for tightening the clip and a handle or spanner is provided for
turning the barrel.
The strainer is supported by a standard the lower end of which is driven into
the ground near the foot of one of the posts of the fence whilst the upper end is
connected to the top of the post by a loop of wire or otherwise. The strainer can
slide up and down on the standard so that all the wires of the fence can be tightened
in succession without moving the standard.
The apparatus is used in the following manner :-The standard having been set
up and secured to one of the posts of the fence as above described the end of the
wire to be strained is wound a few times round the barrel so as to give a hold and
the barrel is turned until the wire is sufficiently strained. The clip (which is
situated further from the post than the barrel) is then tightened onto and takes
hold of the wire. The wire is then unwound from the barrel and its end is secured
to the post in any usual manner the strain during this process being taken by the
clip. The clip is then loosed and the strainer is moved up or down the standard to
another wire or the whole apparatus removed to another post.
In some cases and especially for barbed wire, the wire itself is not wound round
the barrel but is fastened to a plain wire on the barrel, the operation in other
respects being as above described.
Dated this 11th dex of Fehmary 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Straining Wire Fences,
I, WILLIAM MCFARLANE of 43 Broad Street Avenue, in the City of London,
Merchant, (a communication to me from abroad by Walter Charles Orsmond,
of Coville, Herschel, Cape Colony, General Dealer) 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 :-
According to this invention the straining apparatus is placed on the same side of
the post as the wire to be strained instead of in the post or on the other side of it
to the wire.
The strainer consists of a frame carrying a clip and also a barrel the latter
carrying a ring of ratobet teeth engaging with a pawl on the frame so that the
barrel can only be turned in one direction. A screw and thumb nut or some other

page_text: 3. The combination of a standard or standards, a frame capable of being moved
up and down on the standards, a barrel carried by the frame and ratchet teeth on
the barrel engaging with a pawl on the frame substantially as described.
4. Apparatus for straining wire fences substantially as described and shewn in
the drawings.