US230445A - Toothed-wheel wire fence - Google Patents

Description

.(No Model.)

J. STOLL.

Toothed Wheel WireFenoe.

No. 230,445. Patented July 27,1880.

" f Rs. mom-mnoempnsn. wAsniueTou u a UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JACOB STOLL, OF FOUNTAIN CITY, WISCONSIN.

TOOTHED-WHEEL WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,445, dated July 27, 1880.

Application filed March 6, 1880. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB SToLL, ofFountain City, in the county of Buflalo and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toothed-Wheel Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists in combining with a fence-wire made with alternate twisted and looped parts tlat toothed wheels located within and protected at both faces by such loops, and supported within the loops upon staples or bearings; and it further consistsin details more particularly hereinafter described.

Fence-wires, so far as I am aware, in which wheels are used have either had such wheels pivoted or rivets fastened on one side of a flat strip of metal, or else made with a hollow,

journal integral therewith, and with its barbs bent into different planes, or with the wheels all strung loosely on a wire and revolving in planes at right angles to such wire. v

Figure 1 is a plan showing a portion or section of a fence-wire with its attached wheels made in accordance with my invention; Fig.

2, a portion of the looped and twisted wire before the wheel "has been applied thereto.

Fig. 3 illustrates one of the wheels, and Fig. 4 a staple for attaching the same.

In myinvention I use metal wheels, A, (see Figs. 1 and 3,) having no journal thereon, and having a number of radial points, I). These wheels may be cheaply and strongly made, and either cast or cut from sheet metal of sufficient thickness, and may be of any desired diameter, and the teeth of any desired number or length.

The wires are so twisted as to leave between any of the twisted portions 0 c an untwisted part, d, (see Figs. 1 and 2,)formi'ng aloop long enough to receive the wheel, and each wheel is supported and may revolve within such loop upon any appropriate staple or axis, e, passing through its central opening and secured to the wires. Thus the wheels are protected at each of their faces by that part of the loop which spans such face, and their points project about equally on opposite sides of the loop, and in a plane substantially that of the length of the fence; and I prefer to have the loops, and consequently the wheels, in difierent planes-as, for instance, at right angles to each other, or nearly so.

A simple and ready means for attaching the wheels, so that they may be free to revolve on their axes, is to double a short piece of wire (seef, Fig. 4) over the loop of the long wires g, pass its ends through the hole in the wheel, and then force the ends of this short wire close togetherover the outside of the opposite part of the loop, as shown in Fig. I; or along doubled wire may be in the same way passed around the fence-wire and through the wheel, and then by a proper tool be cut off and-forced close together by the same actio'n ofthe tool.

I prefer to have the wires g" bent or depressed inward, as shown at h, the better to hold in place the supports or axes on which the wheels revolve.

Instead of the pieces f any other equivalent means may be used to support the wheelsas, for instance, the two main wires 9g may cross each other at the center of the loop, and such crossed parts pass through the hole in the wheel.

I claim-- 1. In combination with a fence-wire made with alternate twisted and looped parts, as described, flat toothed wheels located within and protected at both sides by such loops, and supported within such loops upon staples or axes.

2. The combination of. the wires 0 c d, toothed wheel A, and attachin g-wire f,

as and for the purposes described.

JACOB sroLL.

- Witnesses:

R. B. N OM'MENSEN, CHRIST. FLORIN.

Images