US228844A - Portable gate-fence - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

P. VILLARD.

Portable Gate-Fences.

No. 228,844. Patented Jun 15,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FiClEa PORTABLE GATE-FENCE.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,844, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed March 16,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH VILLARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Eaton, in the State of Ohio, have invented Improvements in Portable Gate-Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a manner of bracing and supporting those fences known as portable gate-fences, and which are made up of a series of panels connected and supported in such a manner as to be readily taken apart and removed, each panel being handled as a unity. Y

My invention consists of a diagonal brace, the lower end of which is secured by a bolt or pin to a stake in the ground, while the upper end is held by a pin or bolt fixed in the vertical end bar of the panel, and also by its end entering a notch cut in one of the longitudinal bars or boards of the panel.

My invention further consists of an improved form of hook or clampfor fastening the panels to each other, said clamp being so bent as to form a convenient handle for operating the same.

Myinvention further consists of an improved mode of attaching the panel to intermediate or storm posts, hereinafter more fully described.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a fence embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, showing my brace and the manner of connecting the panels. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the intermediate post.

A represents the horizontal, and B the vertical, bars of a portable fencepanel. The vertical end bars have pins 0 projecting from their lower ends into holes in the tops of short posts D, sunk into the ground. A short distance from the fence, and immediately opposite the post D, a short stake, E, is driven into the ground, to which a brace, F, is secured by means of a bolt or pin, 6. A pin or bolt, 1), projecting from the side of the end post or bar, B, passes through a hole in the upper end of the brace F, thus securely bracing the fence.

In order to prevent the brace F from slipping off orbeing otherwise removed from the pin 1), unless the fence is being removed, I form a notch, f, in the lower edge of one of the longitudinal bars A, just next to the post B, for the reception of the upper end of brace F, as shown. Every other panel being supported and braced in this manner, the intermediate panels are secured to them by means of crankshaped hooks or clamps H, which, being screwed into the end bars, B, support the intermediate panels and hold them securely to the stationary ones. The intermediate panels have one board slotted on each end, as at a, which, when the crankhooks H are in a horizontal position, allows the panel to be placed in position on the hooks, after which, said crank-hooks being turned through one quarter-circle, the panel is finally secured.

Between the end posts or bars, B, I attach an additional vertical bar, I, which is secured by another screw-clamp, K, identical with those represented by H, to a short post, J, driven into the ground immediately adjoining it, as shown in Fig.3. The screw-clamps H K being screw-threaded at h and bent at h, so as to form a handle, enables the easy and quick clamping of the panels without the need of extra tools.

It will be noticed that on account of the notches f the braces F cannot be removed from the pins b until detached from posts E and elevated to a horizontal position.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a portable gate-fence, the brace F, secured at its lower end to a stake in the ground, and being transfixed at its upper end by the pin 1), projecting from vertical bar 13, in com bination with notch f in the longitudinal bars A, for the reception of the end of the brace, substantially as described.

2. In a portable gate-fence, the crank-shaped hooks or clamps H, screw-threaded at h, in combination with the slots to of the longitudinal panel-boards A, and with the Vertical bars post supports D J, braces F, stakes E, and B of the adjoining panel, as and for the purpose crank-shaped clamps H K, all combined and I0 set forth. arranged as set forth.

3. In a portable gatefence, the intermediate bar, I, and posts J, the former being se- FRIEDRIUH L cured to the latter by means of crank-shaped Witnesses: clamps, substantially as shown and described. ROBERT REED,

4. A fence consisting of frame-panels A B, PHILIP FERNsELL.

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