US809395A - Lock for crossed wires. - Google Patents

Description

No. 809,395. PATENTED JAN. 9, 1906.

E. T. POGKLINGTON.

LOCK FOR (mosssn WIRES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1905.

Witnesse I Inventor! I I I Attorneys understood that changes in the form, propor- ELMER T. POCKLINGTON, OF CLAYTON, MICHIGAN.

LOCK FOR CROSSED WIRES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1906.

Application filed January 6, 1905. Serial No. 239,954.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER T. Poc Lme- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clayton, in the county of Lenawee and- State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Lock for Crossed Wires, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for fastening crossed or intersecting wires, and has for its object to rovide an improved form of wire-lock particularly adapted for connecting stay and runner Wires of wire fences at their points of crossing or intersection.

It is furthermore designed to provide a simple and inexpensive lock of the character described which may be conveniently applied to the crossed wires and which is effective to prevent lateral movement of each wire upon the other. without olfering any obj ectionable projections.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being tion, size, and minor details may be made within the sec e of the claims without departing from t e s irit or sacrificing any of the advantages of t e invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wire-lock of the present invention applied in position to connect a air of crossed wires. Fig. 2 is an elevation coking at the opposite side of the lock. Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the original form of the look before being bent upon the wires to be connected.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

In explanation of the resent invention there have been shown in t e accompanying drawings two crossed wires 1 and 2, which may be a longitudinal or runner wire of a fence and an u right or stay wire.

The original form of the present look, as best shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, is in the nature of a substantially U-shaped staple 3, which is placed astraddle of one of the wiressay, for instance, the runner-wire 1 with its opposite sides substantially parallel with said wire and extending across the wire 2 at the opposite side of the wire 1. Thelonger side or member 4 of the staple is bent toward the opposite side 5, so as to cross the wire 1 across the opposite side thereof from the original bend of the staple, asindicated at 6, and then the extremity of this side is rebent to form a hook 7, snugly embracing the wire 1. The other member 5 of the lock extends across the wire 2 and is then bent beneath the wire 1, so asto passupwardly across the opposite side thereof, after which it is passed back between the wire 1 and the side 4 of the look, as at 8, with the extremity 9 of the portion Shocked around the side 4 of the look.

It will here be explained that the wires 1 and 2 and the lock in its staple form are subjected to the action of dies to bend the wirelock around the crossed wires, as hereinbefore explained, the dies serving to produce opposite bends or kinks 11 and 12 in the wires 1 and 2, which, together with the grip ping action of the lock, effectually prevents side slipping of either wire upon the other, as well as endwise movements of the wires.

A very important feature of the present form of lock resides in the fact that one terminal 7 thereof snugly grips the wire 1, so as to obviate an objectionable projection, and the same thing is true of the opposite ex,- tremity 9 of the lock, which similarly embraces the side 4 of the lock. By this arrangement the lock encircles the joint between the crossed wires, and the extremity 9 of the lock is rigidly engaged with the opposite side thereof, so as to prevent spreading of the loop formed in the look, while the opposite extremity 7 of the lock is anchored upon the wire 1, so as to prevent slipping of the look upon the wires and also to prevent separation of the extremities of the lock.

In its applied form the lock snugly hugs the crossed wires and is comparatively flat, wherefore projections are obviated, and the lock is not a menace to stock, while at the same time the crossed wires are locked in a snug embrace in an exceedingly simple, eflicient, and inexpensive manner.

Although the extremity 7 of the lock has been shown engaged with the runner-wire 1, it will of course be understood that the arrangement may be changed to engage the extremity 7 with the stay-wire 2, as may be found most convenient or desired in the construction of the fence or other article. 5

Having fully described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. The combination with a pair of crossed wires, of a substantially U-shaped look therefor having its bend straddling one of the wires with its sides substantially parallel therewith and crossing the other wire at the opposite side of the first wire, the end portion of one of the sides of the lock being bent transversely across the first-mentioned Wire upon the same side thereof as the original bend of the lock and engaged with the other side of the lock, the end of said other side of the lock being bent transversely across the adjacent side of the first-mentioned wire and hooked around the same.

2. The combination with a pair of crossed wires, of a substantially U-shaped lock having its bend placed astraddle of one of the wires with its sides extending across the other wire at the opposite side of the firstmentioned wire, one side of the lock lying e11- tirely upon one side of the first-mentioned Wire with its extremity hooked about the same, and the other side of the lock bent transversely across the first-mentioned wire and engaged with the first-mentioned side of the lock.

3. The combination with a pair of crossed wires, of a substantially U-shaped lock having its bend straddling one of the wires with its sides crossing the other wire at the opposite side of the first mentioned wire, the sides of the lock being bent inwardly across the adjacent wire upon opposite sides thereof, one side of the lock being hooked about the adjacent wire and the other side being hooked about the first-mentioned side of the lock at the opposite side of the wire.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ELMER T. POCKLINGTON.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD M. PALMER, F. MAY OULBEnTsoN.

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