New or Improved Hinge-joint for Connecting Together Hurdles and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
New or Improved Hinge-joint for Connecting Together Hurdles and
the like.
I, GEORGE HICKSON, of Wellow Gate, Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln,
Agricultural Carpenter, 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 a device for connecting together hurdles composed of a
framework cousisting of two posts, horizontal rails, and diagonal bars, somewhat
similar to a field-gate. Such hurdles are usually stood upon the ground in a zigzag
form to increase the stability of the barrier, and their adjacent posts are hinged
together by means of iron hooks, staples, or eyes, which devices however are not
wholly satisfactory, one defect being the inability to form any other than an obtuse
angle between any two hurdles, thus rendering it impossible to set a fold or other
enclosure with sides at right angles to one another.
The chief object of my invention is to provide a simple and economical hinge-
joint, which shall turn freely in all directions, and permit of two hurdles being
placed at an angle of 90 degrees, or even less.
According to my invention 1 attach, by coach-screws or bolts for example, to
the post at each end of the hurdle a wrought iron bar or strip having its ends bent
at right angles, the back of the bar or strip being next the post, and the two ends
thereof projecting horizontally therefrom. The horizontal ends are provided with
boles, so that when the posts of two hurdles are brought together, the aforesaid
holes in the horizontal ends coincide, and a rod or pin may be passed through
them and the two hurdles will be connected together in such a manner that they
may be stood at an obtuse or more or less acute angle to one another as may be
required.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents a pair of hurdles connected together in accordance with my
invention, and a portion of another detached from its neighbouring hurdle.
Figure 2 illustrates to a larger scale one of the bout bars cr strips detached from
the hurdle.
A are the posts to which are attached by bolts B the bent bars or strips C the
ends D of which interspace with one another as shewu. E are holes through
which the rod or pin F is passed. G is a chain connecting the rod or pin F to the
post A, or to the bent bar or strip C, to prevent the loss or mischievous removal
of the said rod or pin.
One, two, or more of the bent bars or strips C may be employed for one post
according to circumstances, and a separate rod F may be provided for oach pair of
bent ends D, or a single rod F may be employed to pass through all of the bent
ends D of two adjacent posts.
The bent bars or strips C may be formed by simply bending a strip of wrought
iron, or steel, or if preferred may be of cast metal. It is obvious that instead of
being placed at the end of the hurdles, the bent bars or strips C may, if desired,
be placed on the back or front side of the posts A, as shewn in dotted lines at X
in Figure 1.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
.
The new or improved hinge-joint for connecting together hurdles and the like,
constructed and applied' substantially as described with reference to the accom-
panying drawing
Dated this 13th day of November 1895.
G. HICKSON,