US299763A - William edexboelsr - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. EDENBORN.

BARB FOR WIRE FENGES..

Patented June 3,1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EDENBORN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BARB FOR WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,763, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed September 26, 1883. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM EnnNBoRN, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Barbs for Wire Fences, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had' to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved barb, showing it secured to two main wires. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the other side of the barb. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of a piece before the barb is finished. Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sections taken, respectively, on lines 4 4 and 5.5, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view partly formed. My invention relates to a wire barb having three points; and my invention consists in a three-pointed barb made from a blank cut in the form of a rhomboid, consisting of two pieces of wire connected together by a thin web at one end, one end of one of the wires being bent to make the points project in different directions, and to attach the barb to the main wire or wires. I

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent the two wires of the barb, connected at one end by a thin web, 0. In practice two wires would be formed with athin web connecting them throughout, as shown and described in my application for Letters Patent of the United States No. 84,047, filed February 5, 1883, and then they would be cut up into pieces in the form of rhomboids of the proper length for barbs, the two wires of one end of each piece being then divided by cutting a slit or open slot, 0, in the web, as shown in Fig. 3. Diagonal cuts are made in cutting off the rhomboid-shaped blanks, so that the piece at the end where the two wires are joined is pointed, as shown, and for the further purpose of having one of the wires at the divided end of the piece longer than the other, so that it will have sufficient length to be bent around one or more rnaifi wires, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I thus form out of two wires a good and rigid three-pointed barb, which is made fast to one or more main wires by a simple twist of one end of one of its wires.

The barb is cheap and strong. It can be quickly made, and it requires but little power and cheap machinery to-apply it to the main wire or wires.

I claim 1. A barbblank in the form of a rhomboid, having a longitudinal slot extending from one end toward the center, substantially as described.

2. A three-pointed barb-blank in the shape of a rhomboid, consisting of two pieces of wire connected together by a thin web at one end, as set forth.

3. Athree-pointed barb formed of two pieces of wire connected together at one end by a thin web, and having one of its points bent around to form a loop to surround a main wire, and at right angles to the body of the barb, as set forth.

WILLIAM EDENBORN.

In presence of- GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.

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