US59114A - Improvement in portable fences - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. A

e. c. WRIGHT, on WESTFIELD, omo.y

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,l14, dated October 33, 1866.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, Gr. O. WRIGHT, of Westfield, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Portable Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure l is a side view. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Fig. 3 an end view or cross-section.

Like letters refer to like parts.

In the construction of this fence I use no posts or nails. The panels are composed of three, four, or more boards, A, secured together by battens B at the ends and middle. The boards and battens are bored to a uniform gage, as regards distance, so that any board or any hatten will iit any place.

Pins a are prepared by sawing off straight rift-wood of the proper length-say, about three inchesand splitting it into square cylinders, the corners of which can be removed with a knife. The holes and pins should be about three-fourths of an inch in diameter.

C represents a block or ground-support. It may be :made of wood, pottery, iron, or stone. The upper side is notched of a proper width to receive the thickness of two boards and two battens-say, three inches. This is placed at the intersection of the panels, as shown in the several figures.

D represents a stake of timber, about an inch and a half square, which interlocks between the upper and second rails upon alternate sides of the fence, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower end being sharpened upon the outside and driven into the ground, as seen in Fig. 3. This method of sharpening upon the outside only causes the stake, when driven into the ground, to press firmly upon the lower edge of the top rail and the upper side of the second rail upon the opposite side, thus giving the fence a lateral support in both directions; and by placing these stakes upon opposite sides, in alternation, this support is increased. s

In putting up the fence a number of panels are pinned together Iiat upon the ground and raised to a vertical position and placed upon the blocks C. The stakes are then driven, as above described, and the fence brought into the desired position. In going over uneven ground but one pin need be used at the joining of the panels. 1n changing the fence to a different locality it is only necessary to uncouple the panels sufficiently for that purpose.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isV

The herein-described construction'ofa felice, consisting of the boards A, battens B, blocks @,gpraces D, and pins a, substantially as specilie G. G. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, FRANK ALDEN.

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