Improvements in Pillars and Strainers for Supporting and Con- necting Wires used for Fencing and other Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pillars and Strainers for Supporting and Con-
necting Wires used for Fencing and other Purposes.
I, DAVID ROWELL of 5 Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct pillars and attachments for
supporting and connecting the wires used for fencing and other purposes, that they
may be made easily and cheaply, while the pillars offer great rigidity and facility
for fastening and straining the wires.
In order to carry out this invention I take two strips of sheet iron and form a
corrugation in each, down the middle of its length. The convex sides of the
corrugations are brought together and fixed to each other by rivets placed at
appropriate distances. Through the sides of the projecting ends a suitable number
of holes are punched, and through each pair of these holes is inserted a bolt having
a head at one end and terminating in a screw, nut and washer at the other. Each
bolt has a transverse hole to receive the wire to be supported. The wire being
inserted in the hole and twisted round the bolt, a spanner is applied to the nut, and
on being turned not only fastens and strains the wire, but renders the pillar more
rigid and capable of bearing additional strain.
Each pillar may be adorned by a suitable cast iron cap being fastened to the top,
but this is not a necessary adjunct.
The strainers are formed like a single section of part of a pillar and having one
bolt at each end to which the wires may be fastened.
The pillars and attachments or strainers are made of sheet iron, and may be
either galvanized or otherwise protected.
Dated this 31st day of December 1890.
W. H. DENNETT,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pillars and Strainers for Supporting and Con-
necting Wires used for Fencing and other Purposes.
I, DAVID ROWELL of 5 Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, 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:—
The object of this invention is to so construct pillars and attachments for
supporting and connecting the wires used for fencing and other purposes, that they
may be made easily and cheaply, while the pillars offer great rigidity and facility
for fastening and straining the wires.
In order that the invention may be easily understood, drawings are attached
hereto, of which the following is a description.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the pillar with positions of the stretched wires.
Fig. 2 is a part of a front elevation drawn to the full size.
Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. 2 and
Fig. 4. is an attachment or connector for the wires, being simply a part or section
of Fig. 1, and the same in plan as Fig. 3.
In each of the figs. similar letters refer to the same parts.
To carry out this invention I take two strips of sheet iron A and B and form in each

page_text: a corrugation or indent C down the middle of its length. The convex or indented
sides of the corrugations are brought together and fixed to each other by rivets DD
placed at appropriate distances from each other. Through the sides of the pro-
jecting ends a suitable number of holes are punched, and through each pair of these
holes is inserted a bolt F having a head G at one end terminating in a screw H,
nut I, and washer J at the other. Each bolt has a transverse hole K to receive
the wire M to be supported. The wire being inserted in the hole and twisted round
the bolt a spanner is applied to the head of the bolt and turned until the wire is
sufficiently strained when by means of another spanner the nut is screwed up, whereby
the wire already strained is fastened, and the pillar rendered more rigid and capable of
bearing additional strain. The pillars are made of any convenient length, the lower
portion being sunk in the ground.
Each pillar may be adorned by a suitable ornamental cast iron cap L, fastened
to the top, but this is not a necessary adjunct.
The strainers or connectors Fig. 4 are formed like a single section of part of a
pillar, and having one bolt at each end to which the wires may be fastened.
The pillars and attachments, or strainers, are made of sheet iron and may be
either galvanized or otherwise protected.
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,
Pillars and strainers, or connectors for supporting and connecting wires used for
fencing and other purposes, made as herein described and shown on the drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1891.
W. H. BENNETT,
Agent for the Applicant.