US1217968A - Staple. - Google Patents

Description

J. 0. LOTZ & J. L. SANDERS.

STAPLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6.1916.

1,217,968. V Patented Mar. 6, i917.

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JAMES 0. LOTZ AND JESSE L. SANDERS, or EUNrcE, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNORS or own- HALF T0 c. J. SANDERS, or EUNICE. LOUISIANA. V

STAPLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

Application filed July 6, 1916. Serial No. 107,836.

Jnssn L. SANDERS, citizens of the United States, residing at Eunice, in the parish of St. Landry, State 'of Louisiana, have invented a new'and useful Staple; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it app'ertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new and useful staple, particularly designed for securing fence wire to fence posts.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a staple of this kind having means to be engaged by the nail extracting claws of a hammer head to facilitate the extracting of the staple. This means comprises an enlargement forming a part of the arch of the staple, the portion of the enlargement of the arch with which the extracting claws of the hammer head engage being rounded or curved in conformity with the curvature of the extracting claws.

Another object of the invention is to provide the under surface of the arch of the staple with an angular recess, for the reception of the fence wire, to prevent displacement of the wire, after the same has once been stretched.

In practical fields, the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combinations of parts, hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings, and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a portion of a fence post, showing the staple driven therein and securing a fence wire, a hammer head shown in dotted lines, illustrating how the claws engage the enlargement for extracting the staple. Q

Fig. 2 is. an enlarged detail perspective view of the staple.

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the staple.

Fig. 4 is a sectional View on line li of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail perspective view of a staple, showing an inclined or angularly disposed recess in the under surface of the arch of the staple, to receive a fence wire, to prevent displacement of the same after having once been stretched.

Fig. 6 is a-- sectional view on line 6 of Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrows.

F ig. 7 is a View in side elevation of the staple shown in Figs. 5 and 6 Fig. 8 is a sectional view online 8-8 of Fig. 7. p

I Referring more especially to the drawings,

1 designates the usual form of fence post,

.and 2 the staple, which, in the present instance, is used for securing a fence wire 3 to the post. The prongs 4 of the staple are of the usual construction, in. other words, their greater portions are rectangular in cross section and their extremities are tapering or pointed, as shown at 5. The arch 6 of the staple is constructed with an enlargement 7. As in other patented devices, this enlargement does not project outwardly from the arch, but it may be said that it is the arch itself. However, the sides of the enlargement 7 project laterally beyond the opposite surfaces of the prongs. In other words, the enlargement or arch in cross section at the point indicated by the line 0?) is circular, as shown in Fig. 4:, thereby forming shoulders 8, which are engaged by the opposing extracting claws 9 of a hammer pole or head, whereby the staple may be easily extracted. Referring to Fig. 3, it is to be seen that said shoulders are curved, to correspond with the curvature or contour of said claws 9, thereby facilitating a superior engaging or gripping surface for said claws, when extracting the staple, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

The staple in Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 has a recess 10 upon the under curved surface of the arch, and which under curved surface of the arch of the staple in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, is rectangular in cross section, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. It is to be noted that the recess 10 is disposed obliquely, and is deep enough to receive the fencewire 12, just a little before the stapleis driven completely home. In using the staple in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, the fence wire is stretched to the desiredtension, the staple having been driven almost completely home, after which the fence wire is disposed in said obliquely arranged recess and the staple subsequently driven completely home. By virtue of the recess, an oblique kink or bend is made in the fence wire, which, when the usual wire stretching means, not shown, is detached from the wire, prevents displacement of the fence wire. In other Words, said ebliquely disposed recess constitutes simple, e'liicient and practical anchoring means carried by a staple, for anchoring a fence Wire to a fence post against displacement longitudinally.

The invention having been set forth, What is claimed as new and useful is 1. A fence Wire anchoring staple constructed fro-1n a single piece of metal bent to form an arch and a pair of prongs disposed in parallelism, said arch having a pair of oppositely disposed laterally extending shoulders curved to correspond With the curvature or contour of the extracting claWs of a hammer pole, the under face of the arch being rectangular in cross section and having an obliquely disposed recess to receive a fence wire causing a bend or kink in the wire to prevent longitudinal displacement of the Wire When once stretched.

2. A fence Wire anchoring staple, comprising a pair of prongs and an arch connecting said prongs, the under curvature of the arch having an obliquely disposed recess to cause a bend or kink in the fence Wire, to prevent longitudinal displacement of the Wire When once stretched.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES O. LOTZ. JESSE L. SANDERS. Witnesses:

C. J. SANDERS, FABIUS DUPRE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of .Eatents Washington, D. G.

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