US277930A - Fence - Google Patents

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D. RENIKER.

FENCE.

Patented May 22,1883.

IJVVE TOR UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. DAVID RENIKER, or WABASH, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,930, dated May 22, 1883,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID RENIKER, a citi zen of the United States, residing at the city of Wabash, county of \Vabash, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fences termed portable, and the object of which is,

first, to providev an easy means for erecting or.

for the purpose of leavinga passage through the fence.

The improvement consists of the sills A A, to which are secured the posts B B, which are strengthened by means of lateral braces O O and longitudinal bars or braces D D, the latter beingjoined by a vertical brace, F, the

I whole thus forming the frame-work of the stationary section of the fence. In the post Bare inserted staples H H for the reception of hooks I I, and to the post B are secured hooks I I by means of staples H H, by which means the sections arejoined together, as will behereinaftermorefnllydescribed. Theposts are alsojoined at suitable distances apart by longitudinal twisted wires E E E, in which are inserted and secured barbs G, and which are secured to the posts by staples or other suitable means. The removable sections consist of two osts, K K joined similar] Y and Application filed September 7, 1882. (No model.)

positions, the hooksI I are inserted into the staples H H, which thus connect one portion of the movable section to the stationary section; then by inserting the hooks I I of the stationary section into the staples H H the sections are thus all united together. All that is necessary to do in order to open any of the movable sections is to withdraw the books from their connections with the, staples, thus leaving said sections free to swing or to be entirely removed.

1am aware that prior to my invention fences have been constructed with movable sections, and I therefore do not claim such a combination, broadly, as my invention.

I am aware that sections of fence have been made with bases in which one of the sections could be moved laterally; also, that sections of fence have been hooked together to form a continuous worm-fence. y

I am also aware that Patent No.14 1,202 describes removable sections.

I am further aware that sections of fence have been composed of barbed 'wire and rails combined; but I am not aware that sections of fence composed of both wire and rails and having bases at each end have been used in connection with other sections similar but without bases to which they are hooked, so-that the latter sections can be turned laterally oraround, whereby the extra expense of forming bases on the latter sections is avoided; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, in a fence, of the alternate stationary and removable sections A B,-

connected to one another by hooks and staples, by which the removable sections are adapted to turn l'aterull y, every stationary section being provided at each end with a braced sill, A (J, rigidly attached, and the removable swinging section being constructed in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

DAVID RENIKER. I Witnesses:

' FRED. J. SNAVELLY,

JOHN H. DIOKEN.

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