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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
ROBERT H. McGINTY, OF MOULTON, TEXAS.
PICKET-FENCE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,570, dated February 15, 1881.
OritgialNo. 143,632, dated October 14, 1873. Application for reissue filed October 16, 1880.To all wlom it may concern :
Be it known that I, ROBERT H. MCGINTY,
of Moulton, in the county of Lavaca and State
of Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
5 provement in Fences, of which the following
is a specification.
The trouble and expense of building and
preserving suitable fences in a country not
stocked with timber must be apparent to all.
to In many sections it is difficult to obtain long
fencing-timber, and in such cases the building
of low fences of cheap short timber is resorted
to.
The object of the invention is to form a fence
15 of wood and wire with a straight top and zig-
zag base, as hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1
represents a side elevation; Fig. 2, a top or
plan view. Fig. 3 is a detail, showing the
20 mode of binding the wires together. Fig. 4
is a top view of the same.
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts.
This fence is composed of two kinds of posts
25 or bars. One kind-short in length and form-
ing the main body of the fence, and marked
A-rest upon the ground and form a low fence.
The other posts (marked B) are arranged with
the others at intervals, and are longer than
30 the posts A, and whose top ends are on a line,
as seen in Fig. 2. The posts (both long and
short) are arranged in panels D, which brace
alternately in each direction, as represented
in Fig. 2; but the tops of the posts B should
35 be so arranged as to stand in line and carry
the high wire rider C, which takes the place
of the ordinary wooden-rail rider. The posts
B are anchored to the ground by other wires
and stakes E.
40 F represents a wire on each side of all theposts at two places. These wires are bound
together between the posts by the links G.
The links are so applied that the wires are
drawn tightly against the sides of the posts,
thus binding all of them together, and render- 45
lug the fence strong and substantial.
A fence is thus made chiefly of short tim-
her; but it will be durable and calculated to
resist currents of water as well as wind.
The posts may be simple round or split tim- 50
ber formed of the bodies or limbs of trees,
no sawed lumber being required. Any kind
of wire that is strong enough will answer for
the rider.
The advantages are: This fence can be con- 55
structed where timber is scarce and sawed
lumber not to be obtained. It is cheap, and
can be put up by any one at all skilled in or-
dinary farm operations.
I do not broadly claim a picket - fence ar- 60
ranged in zigzag form; but
What I claim is-
1. In a fence, the combination of a straight
wire rider on high posts and zigzag stakes D,
arranged in reverse angles on opposite sides 65
of said rider, as shown and described.
2. A zigzag picket-fence consisting of pan-
els D, bracing alternately in each direction,
and having the tops of long posts B in align-
ment and carrying wire rider C, the long and 70
short posts of said panels being clamped be-
tween two wires, F, which are bound together
between the posts by cross-links G, substan-
tially as shown and described, and for the pur-
pose set forth.
ROBERT HENRY McGINTY.
Witnesses:
G. C. HARRIs,
HENRY W. DOCKERY.
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McGinty, Robert H. Picket Fence, patent, February 15, 1881; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth170772/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.