US250547A - Stirrup-fastening - Google Patents

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(ModelL) W. H.YKIRBY.

STIRRUP FASTENING.

Patented Dec. 6,1881.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. KIRBY, OF WARSAW, KENTUCKY.

STIRRUP-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,547, dated December 6, 1881,

Application filed May 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. H. KIRBY, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Warsaw, in the county of Gallatin and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Stirrup-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear. and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making apart of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention has relation to improvements in stirrups or metallic bindings for holding together the crossing bars of gates, fences, or other articles; and it consists in the construction and. novel arrangement of the endlessmetallic binding having pairs of loops arranged in angular relation to each other and grooved or ridged on their inner faces, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is the production of a device whereby crossing bars can be held in firm relative position without being weakened, and whereby the fastening will hold its place securely. This fastening or stirrup is designed for use at any point where bars cross, the precise shape and size depending on the form, dimensions, and relative position of the bars, and in the annexed drawings are shown several forms of the stirrup, these beingespecially adapted to hold together the parts of a gate or fence.

Figure 1 represents a form applicable to bars crossing each other at right angles-as, for instance, the uprights and rail-bars of a fence. In this stirrup, a and I) indicate two sets of loops, which are arranged in pairs, the numbers or loops of each pair being at right angles to thoseof the other. The loops consist of the straps c and the two arms (I (I, and the arms of the loops are continuous at cl, but have their planes at right angles, as shown, so that the broad or flat side of each arm serves as a hearing for the edge of the bar in contact therewith. The inner or bearing faces of the straps form'- ing the loops are grooved or ridged, as indicated ate, parallel longitudinal grooves or ridges being employed. In using this stirrup one bar is designed to he slipped through one set of opposite loops, and the other bar through the (ModeL) loops composing the other set or pair. The depth of the loops or the length of their arms will be determined by the thickness of the crossed bars, it being designed that when these bars are in place they shall be bound closely by the stirrup, the ridges e of the latter biting into the wood-,so that there will be no slipping.

. In Fig. 2 I have illustrated a form of stirrup which is applicable where two bars crossing at right angles are met by a third bar at a different angle. In this instance the loops of each pair differ in length, and while the loops of one pair are parallel those of the other are not. The parallel loops are marked 9 g, the latter being the longer. h h designate the members of the divergent pair of loops, the former loop, h, being at right angles to the planes of the loops g g, and the loop It being oblique to said planes, as shown in the drawings. Three sets of connecting-arms, t', in. this fastening are similar to those illustrated in Fig. 1, connect ing the straps; but thefourth arm or bearing, k, connecting the extended ends of the longer straps of the loops g h, is triangular in crosssection, so thatit has an oblique bearin g-face, 7c.

The loops 9 g h it have the grooves or ridges e.

on their insidefaces, as above described. This stirrup may be effectively employed in holding together the end upright of a gate, the top rail, and the end of an oblique brace.

Fig. 3 represents a diamond form of stirrup, designed for use in connecting bars which cross each other at a low angle, as the cross-braces of a gate. In this form the loops at and n are arranged in pairs, and the loops of each pair are parallel; but their angular relation to each other is oblique, so that the stirrup has opposite acute an gles,z, and opposite obtuse angles, 2, as shown in the drawings. The armspp, connecting the oblique straps of the loops, are triangular in cross-section, having bearingfaces g, which are flush with the inner edges ofthe straps, as shown in the drawings.

It is designed to cast these stirrnp-fastenings or angular bands each entire, of one piece of metal, in the forms and sizes required for the bars to be joined.

I am aware thata stirrup-fastening has been patented for holding crossing bars; but one pair of its loops are curved, forming rounding angles, and it has no broad arms; also, that ridges have been used; but these are in the grooves 0r ridges, and broad bearing-arms conv shape of teeth and arranged lengthwise of the necting said straps, as hereinbefore shown and line of slip. I lay no claim to these ccnstrucdescribed. tions. In testimony that I claim the above I have 15 5 Having described this invention, What I hereunto subscribed my name in the presence claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, of two Witnesses.

A stirrup-fastening or angular band, having WILLIAM KIRBY' two sets ot'opposite rectangular loops, arranged Witnesses:

10 in planes at right angles with each other, JOHN J. PAYNE, and consisting of straps having longitudinal JAMES W. CRAIG.

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