Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards, Columns, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards,
Columns, and the like.
I, JOHN DICK of 218 Saracen Street, Possilpark in the City of Glasgow,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to earth or base plates and whilst applicable as a means of
affording increased rigidity to standards as columns generally it is especially
applicable and intended to be used in conjunction with the standards of wire bar
and similar fences.
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In forming an earth or base plate in accordance with the invention I take a
metallic strip or plate and cut or shear from it lengths one end of each of which is
bevelled or inclined outwards from the edges towards the centre where a U shaped
curvilinear bevelled or similar outward projection or tongue from the inclination is
formed. In the body of the plate and at a point below the outwardly bevelled end
a slot is produced the boundary lines of which are equal or approximately equal to
the boundaries of the column or standard to be held in position and as from the
ends of the said slot the central part of the section of plate is throughout its
length by cramps or dies dished into a channel shape conform to the contour of
the standard or column with which the plate is to be used. The upper end of the
plate having the outward projection or tongue is then as from the centre of the
breadth of the slot bent over or folded back upon the main body of the metal
whereby a channel is produced of approximate contour and section to that of the
standard or column to be supported and which is fixed in position by wedges or
equivalent means. With this construction the base or lower end of the plate is of
reverse contour to that herein before described.
Under a modification the section as cut from the plate or strip may be square
and a slot made near its upper and lower ends so as when both ends are folded back
upon the body of the metal to produce two channels or sleeves through which the
standard or column passes and in either case when it is desired to form a four
winged base or earth plate in addition to the slot or slots made prior to creasing
the channel the edges of the plate are cut inwards at points opposite to the said
channel or channels the sections above and below the said cuts being bent or flared
in opposite directions.
Dated thie 27th day of February 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards,
Columns, and the like.
I, JOHN DICK of 218 Saracen Street, Possilpark in the City of Glasgow,
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 :-
.
This invention relates to earth or base plates and whilst applicable as a means of
affording increased rigidity to standards or columns generally it is specially
applicable and intended to be used in conjunction with the standards of wire bar
and similar fences.

page_text: The invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings under one modifi-
cation by Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 and under a second modification by Figures 5, 6
and 7.
With the arrangement shewn by Figures 1 to 4 in forming an earth or base plate
I take a metallic strip and cut or shear from it lengths a as shewn by Figure 1.
One end 6 of each length is bevelled or inclined outwards from the edges towards
the centre where a U-shaped curvilinear, bevelled, or similar outward projection or
tongue c is formed. In the body of the plate and at a point below the outwardly
bevelled end b a slot d is produced the boundary lines of which are equal or
approximately equal to the boundaries of the column or standard to be held in
position. From the ends of the said slot that is to say at the dotted lines a the
central part of the section of plate is throughout its length dished by cramps or
dies into a channel shape as represented by Figure 3 to conform to the contour of
one half of the standard or column e with which the plate is to be used. The upper
end of the plate having the outward projection or tongue c is then as from the
centre of the breadth of the slot d that is to say on the dotted line y bent over or
folded back upon the main body of the metal as shewn by Figures 2 and 4 whereby
the channel to receive the standard or column is completed the said standard or
column e being fixed in position by wedges g or equivalent means. With this con-
struction the base or lower end of the plate is of reverse contour to that
hereinbefore described.
Under the modification represented by Figures 5, 6 and 7 the section a as cut
from the plate or strip may be square and have slots d made near both its upper
and lower ends so as when both ends are folded back as shewn by Figures 6 and 7
upon the body of the metal to produce two channels or sleeves through which the
standard or column d passes. The plate is first dished in the manner described
with reference to Figures 1 to and in either case when it is desired to form a four
winged base or earth plate in addition to the slot or slots d made prior to creasing
the channel the edges of the plate are cut inwards at points opposite to the said
channel or channels the sections above and below the said cuts being bent or flared
in opposite directions as shewn by dotted lines at i Figure 7.
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 :-
1. An earth plate for fencing standards columns and the like constructed and
arranged substantially as herein before described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3
and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
2. An earth plate for fencing standards columns and the like constructed and
arranged substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 5, 6
and 7 of the drawings annexed.
· Deted this 27th dow of November 1902
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.