US356638A - Machine for wiring picket fences - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J, C. HAAG.

MAGHINB POR WIRNG PIGKE'I FENGBS. No. 356,638. Patented. Jan. 25, 1887 A il;

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MACHINE FOR WIRING PCKET FENCES.

:PEGIFICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,638, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed Sepemhor 3G, 1836. Serial No. 5215.013. (No model.)

.To @ZZ when@ may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN C. HAAG, of Lansing, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, here invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for XViring Picket Fences; and Ido hereby declare that the followin g is a full, clear, end exact description there of, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which forni n port of this speciiiccr tion.

This invention relates to certa-in new andv useful improvements in wiringninchines.

The object of this invention is to provide e machine by moons of which pickets may he 'wired to it wire strand of n fence by inclosing three sides of the picket with the Wrapping- Wire, the ends of which are Wrapped by the machine around the Wire strand which covers the fourth fece ofthe pick et. The saine device may be ed vontogeously employed for securing electrical wires to insulators, :ind for various other pn rposes.

The invention co nsists in n machine, adapted to be operated by hond, by ineens of which short pieces of Wire may he forced to embrace three sides of n picket2 the fourth side of which rests against e wire strand of the fence, and by ineens of which the ends of the Wrappingwirc iney he lrinly Wrapped around the Wire strand, thereby tightly, thoroughly, and effectunliy securing,` the picket in place.

It also consists in the peculiar construction o the device, its various parts, and their coinhinetion, os more fully hereinafter described sind claimed.

Figure l is a perspective vien of my ini- Fig. 2 is e top pleo, of the seine. Fig. S is a side elevation. Fig. 4 shows the manner in which o picket is secured to the wire strands oi e fence.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a suitable freine for .cnrryingthc Working parts, this freine bein g provided with ahandle, B. roperly supported in the tivo sides of this ironie is the :nein driving-wheel C, heving e crank, D, by ineens of which motion is given to it.

E is e shaft having upon it two pinions, F, rigidly secured, with one of which thcdriving- Wheel C engages,

G are two other pinions suitably supported in the freine, and which engage with the pinions F, The two pinions G, being rigidly scoured to their shafts, are slotted,as shown at ain Figs. l and 3,such slotsin each being coincident, or on the saine line, und extending to the center ofthe shaft which supports them; and through these pinions G, e little in rear of the interior end of these slots, there are holes i), which must be coincident or on o line with each other in the two pinions.

In practice I will describe the device as in use in securing wooden pickets to the strands of a wire fence, the strands being drawn tightly between the proper posts. A short piece of wire, c, long enough to embrace three sides of the picket and to maite two or more wraps around the wire strand d ofthe fence, is pushed through the holes b, leaving the ends of the wire projecting equally, as nein' es possible, on each side of the device. The picket e is then inserted between the pinions G and against the Wire c, and the slots e in the device :tre now presented to embrace the Wire strand d, and motion being given to the pinions G, through the handle D and the intervening mechanism, the Wire c, being eccentric to the shaft of the pinions through which it runs,l is Wrapped around this Wire strand, es shown in Fig. 4, thereby rigidly and closely confining the pichet in piece. The ends of the Wire c draw out of the holes b as the pinions in their revolutions twist the seme around the moin wire d., and then the apparatus cnn be readily removed to repeat the operation on another picket. The side bars of the freine are braced hy cross-hars L, which are arranged just ihr enough buck of the shaft that supports the pinions G to forni n guide and stop for the post to prevent the seine from being pushed baci; too for, ns otherwise the pickets might drew the ends of the Wire c out or' the holes b.

Vhet I claim es my invention isl. A Wire-Wrapping machine having two wrapping-Wheels adapted to receive c post between them, with slots coincident in each extending to or nearly to the exis of such Wheels, and coincident holes through such Wheels eccentric to their axis, in coinbinetion Wit-h e freine in which such Wheels revolve,

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having an opening forward of the axis of said therein, shaft E, pinions F F carried thereby, Wheels, and mechanism for giving motion to pinions G G in front of the pinions F F and the Wrapping-Wheels, substantially as and for formed with slots et a, and holes I) b in `rear 15 the purposes described. of said slots, and the erossbars L L, connect- 5 2. The combination, with the frame and two ing the side bars of said frame and serving as slottedwrappingwheelsrevolvingtherein and a stop, substantially as and for the purpose adapted to receive a post between them, said speeiiied. Wheels being provided with coincident holes, as described, of a. stop on said frame, slibstalnA l JOHN C' HAAG' to tially as and for the purpose specified. i Witnesses:

3. The Wire-Wrapping maeliine described, i H. S. SPRAGUE, consisting of the frame A, pinion C journaled THOMAS ERNEST.

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