US116989A - Improvement in fences - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES,

PATENT CFFICE.

PRESTON C. PEABSON, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND T. E. O. BRINLY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 116,989, dated July 11, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PRESTON C. PEARsoN, of Louisville, in the county of Je'erson and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain Improvement in Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing making part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a picket-fence partly in section, and also showing a section of a rail-fence arranged at right angles to the `former. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the post. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section, showing the manner of connecting the picket and rail-fences at Figs. 4 and 5 are views ofthe casting by which two panels are joined to the post.

The same letters of reference are used in all the gures in the designation of identical parts.

This invention relates to fences; and consists in the manner or means employed for connecting the panels together, as will be generally set forth in the following description and specificallyT pointed out in the claim.

A and B represent panels of a picket-fence, to the horizontal rails of which a vertical beam, C, is bolted at each end and upon the inner side thereof. A tenen, C', is formed upon each end of these beams to enter a mortisc or socket in the castings D and D', which, by means of a larger central aperture, are slipped upon a post, E. The latter has an arm or anchor, Ef, either buried in the ground, as shown in the drawing, or which may form the shoe with which the post rests upon the ground. In the latter case it may be loaded with a heavy rock or staked to the ground, so as to give the required irmn'ess to the post. The construction of the castings or locking-pieces D and D1 is clearly shown in Figs. 1, 4, and 5, cach having a large central opening or aperture, D2, fitting the post E, and upon each end a' socket, D3, fitting the tenons C of the beams C. The piece D1 is slipped on the post, it being supported on a shoulder thereon so that the openings of its socket D3 point upward to receive the tenons of the beams C of two adjacent panels of the fence, which are then secured by the upper casting D in the manner shown in Fig. 1. In the example exhibited the post E stands a little in rear of the palings of the fence, but the locking-pieces may be so formed as to bring the former in line with the latter.

By amodied arrangement of the sockets of the castings they may also be used to connect two panels standing at right angles to each other, the central aperture being omitted where no post is placed in the corner.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the panels A B, constructed with tenoned beams C C', post E, and castings D and D1, substantially as and for the pur pose set forth..

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PRESTON C. PEABSON.

Witnesses:

A. D. MILES, J. B. HARDY.

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