Improved Means for Securing Fencing Wires to Standards.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Fencing Wires to Standards.
We, EDWARD SMETHURST, Farmer's Agent, and WILLIAM CATTO GREIG, Com-
mercial Traveller, both of 183, Hereford Street, Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention to be as follows:-
This invention provides improved means for securing fencing wire to metal
fencing standards whereby a fence is easily erected and taken down, a broken
wire or standard replaced or a number of wires temporarily removed from a
standard and tied together to permit the passage of animals over or under them.
In our invention each wire is carried in an approximately circular hole of
considerably larger diameter than the wire and a channel leading from the hole
through the edge of the standard enables the wire to be passed laterally into
the hole.
A metal link pivoted upon the standard and passing through the wire hole is
arranged to normally swing into position where it closes the channel but can be
swung back to allow the wire to enter, and then returned to prevent its passage
out.
For EDWARD SMETHURST,
WILLIAM CATTO GREIG,
G. G. M. Hardingham,
Associate Agent. 191, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
Improved Means for Securing Fencing Wires to Standards.
We, EDWARD SMETHURST, Farmers' Agent, and WILLIAM CATTO GREIG, Com-
mercial Traveller, both of 183, Hereford Street, Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, 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 provides improved means for securing fencing wire to metal
fencing standards, whereby a fence is easily erected and taken down, a broken
wire or standard replaced or a number of wires temporarily removed from a
standard and tied together to permit the passage of animals over or under them.
In our invention each wire is carried in an approximately circular hole of

page_text: considerably larger diameter than the wire and a channel leading from the hole
through the edge of the standard enables the wire to be passed laterally into
the hole.
A metal link, pivoted upon the standard and passing through the wire hole, is
arranged to normally swing into position where it closes the channel, but it can
be swung back to allow the wire to enter and then return to prevent its passage
out.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a portion of a fencing standard illus-
trating our invention.
Figure 3 is a plan of a wire link.
The standard iron (a) is punched with a circular hole (b) having a channel (c)
leading through the edge of the standard to admit the fencing wire (9).
A swinging link (4), which is formed as shown in Figure 3, is pivoted in a
second hole (e) and operates within the hole (b) to close the channel (c) and to
prevent the fencing wire passing out.
To permit the wire to pass into the hole (6), the link is turned back into the
position shown in Figure 1: and when the wire has entered, the link is allowed
to assume its normal position as shown in Figure 2.
A niche or lip (f) in the channel (c) receives the link when it is in position
to close the channel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. A fencing standard having a hole connected by a channel with the edge
of the standard, a swing link pivoted upon the standard passing through said
hole and operating therein to permit entrance of the fencing wire and then to
close the channel and prevent it from passing out, substantially as and for the
purposes herein described and illustrated.
2. In means for securing fencing wires to standards. the combination with a
standard of a hole (b) having a channel (e) by which wire can be passed laterally
into said hole, a swing link () pivoted in a hole (e) passing through and operat-
able within the hole (b) to permit a fencing wire to enter and then to close the
channel (e) against its return, substantially as and for the purposes herein
specified and illustrated.
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