Patent ID: 6872892

Claim:
A fence insulator for maintaining a pair of fence wires in a desired common plane and spaced a desired distance apart, the insulator comprising a body of molded plastic construction mountable to a support and including a pair of spaced apart sidewalls connected by a connecting wall; a first pair of aligned grooves defined across a first portion of the connecting wall; a first retention member positioned adjacent the first pair of aligned grooves and configured for receiving one of the wires underneath a portion thereof; a second pair of aligned grooves defined across a second portion of the connecting wall spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the first pair of aligned grooves; and a second retention member positioned adjacent the second pair of aligned grooves and configured for receiving one of the wires underneath a portion thereof, wherein one of the wires is positionable underneath the first retention member and within the first pair of aligned grooves and the other one of the wires is positionable underneath the second retention member and within the second pair of aligned grooves.