US611268A - Wire-stretcher - Google Patents

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No. 611,268. Patented Sept. 27, I898. A. McINTURFF &. H. J. STEWART.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,268, dated. September 27, 1898.

Application filed June 25, 1898. Serial No. 684.498. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatwe, ABRAHAM MOINTURFF and HUGH J. STEWART, citizens of the United States, residing at Eversonville, in the county of Linn and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vire-Stretchers; 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 appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to certain novel features involved in the construction and combination of parts necessary to provide a reliably-efficient wire-stretching appliance.

Among the objects of our invention is to provide reliable means for stretching the wire during the process of building a fence and also for splicing or repairing any break that may occurin any of the wires, and in certain details designed to anchor our improved wirestretcher in its operative position upon the fence-post, thus rendering it unnecessary for the attendant to hold the stretcher against lateral movement.

Other advantages and objects will be made fully apparent in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of our wirestretcher complete, showing it in an anchored position upon a post. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3iis a similar View to that shown in Fig. 2, showing the wire-stretcher used to splice or repair a break in the wire. Fig. 4.- is a detail view of the frame or body of our wire-stretcher. Fig. 5 is a detail edge view of the controlling-lever, while Fig. 6 is a section of Fig. 4 on line 00 00.

Referring in detail to the several parts of our invention, 1 and 2 represent parallel sections of the frame, which are substantially oblong, and consists, in addition to the sections 1 and 2, of the end sections 3 and 4, and designed to reciprocate freely between the sections 1 and 2 we dispose the ratchet-bar 5,

having upon its upper edge the series of ratchet-teeth 6, by means of which when in engagement with the pawl 7 said bar is easily moved to the desired position, the inner end of said bar being attached to the wire 8 to be stretched by means of the clamp or hook 9, as clearly shown. The sections 1 and 2 terminate in the curved anchoring members 10 and 11, the latter being directed upward,

while the former is curved downward, the objectin thus separating the extreme beveled ends 12 of said members being to provide a surer anchorage and thus guard against an upward or downward movement of the bodysection and the ratchet-bar.

In order to more reliably secure the bodysection in position, we prefer to pivot at the outer end thereof, by means of the staple 13 or otherwise, the anchoring-lever 14, having upon itsfree end the sharpened point 15, designed to be driven securely into the post, and when thus anchored in position it will be seen that the body-section will be held reliably in position. .In order that the ratchetbar may be retained in an adjusted position, we provide the pivoted pawls 16 and 1.7, the purpose of the latter being hereinafter more clearly set forth.

The operating-lever, which will be more clearly seen in Fig. 5, consists of the leversection proper, 18, and the anchoring journal or lug 19, and is also provided with the downwardly-extending lip 20, between which and said lever the double-toothed pawl 7 is pivotally secured.

By reference to Fig. 4 it will be observed that the sections 1 and 2 are provided substantially midway in their length with the transverse reinforcing-rib 21, at each end of which we providethe apertures 22 and 23, designed to receive the journal or lug 19 of the lever, according to which position the lever occupies. I

It will be seen that the end sections 3 and 4 areprovided with a recess or aperture 24, designed to loosely receive the ratchet-bar 5 and permit the free reciprocation thereofduring the process of using the wire-stretcher.

It will be observed that our wire-stretching appliance is easily reversible and-that the operator may use the same-and proceed in either direction, the change being effected by a change of the location of the operatinglever 18, it being readily apparent that after the ratchet-bar 5 is removed it may be turned so that the ratchets thereon will extend in an opposite direction, the lever 18 being previously extended in the same direction by removing the journal 19 from the aperture 22 and inserting it in aperture 23, the doubletoothed pawl being provided to accommodate this changed position of the lever and the pawl 17 being designed also to cooperate with the ratchets upon the reversed ratchet-bar.

In order that our wire-stretching appliance may be easily used both for the purpose of building a fence and for splicing or repairing a broken wire, we provide the hooks or clamps 25 and 26, the former being pivotally secured in position by the staple or eyebolt 13, while the latter is secured to an integrally-formed eye 27 upon the end section 4. By the construction illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 it will be observed that a simple reciprocation of the free end of the lever 18 will cause the pawls 7 and 16 to cooperate with the teeth upon the ratchet-bar and will thus induce the longitudinal movement of said bar and incidentally stretch the wire to which said bar is attached by means of the clamp or hook section 9, our wire-stretching appliance having been previously anchored upon the post, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. \Vhen it is desired to proceed in an opposite direction, it will be clear, as above set forth, that our wirestretcher may be prepared for its work by withdrawing the ratchet-bar and replacing it so that the teeth thereon will be disposed in an opposite direction, the controlling-lever having been previously reversed, so that the journal 19 will occupy the opposite recess carried by the frame-sections.

\Vhen it is desired to splice or repair a broken wire, the operation may be stated to be as follows: The pawls 7 and 16 or 17, as the case may be, are manually controlled, so that the ratchet-bar can be withdrawn to the extent that the free end of said bar will be within the recess formed in the end section 3 whenone end of the wire is to be connected to the book 0 and the other end of the wire is to be attached to one of the hooks 25 or 26, as preferred, the free ends of the wires being preferably left to extend free beyond said hooks, so that when they are brought together through the action of the lever 18 upon the ratchet-bar they may be readily overlapped and twisted upon each other.

In Fig. 3 we have shown the two ends of the wires as being attached to the hooks 9 and 25, though it will be clear that the hook 25 may be replaced by the hook 26, the result being substantially the same.

Having thus fully described the advantages, construction, and use of our improved wirestretching appliance, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein described wire stretching appliance, consisting of the ratchet-bar, the frame designed to receive said ratchet-bar and permit the longitudinal reciprocation thereof; curved anchoring members carried by said frame; a lever adjustably mounted upon said frame and carrying a pawl; a pair of pawls oppositely disposed upon the frame and designed to engage said ratchet-bar and an anchoring brace or stem pivotally secured to the frame and designed to take into a fence-post upon which the stretcher is adj usted as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a wire-stretching appliance, the combination with the ratchet-bar; a frame-section receiving said bar and permitting the free reciprocation thereof; pawls pivotally secured upon said frame; a controlling-lever adjustably mounted on the frame and suitable means, substantially as set forth, for anchoring the frame and the parts carried thereby upon the fence-post, and additional means for engaging the ends of the wires to be stretched, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereofwe affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM MOINTURFF. HUGH J. STEVART. Witnesses:

T. O. MERRYMAN, (3. W. LABAR.

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