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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
JOHN B. IRVINE, OF SHERMAN, TEXAS.
WIRE-STRETCHER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,039, dated April 21, 1885.
Application filed July 11, 1884. (No model.)To all whom, it nzay concern:
Be it known that I, JoHN B. IRYINE, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Sher-
man, in the county of Grayson and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Wire-Stretchers; and I do
hereby declare that the following is a full,
clear, and exact description of the invention,
which will enable others skilled in the art to
io which it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to that class of wire
stretchers or tighteners which are adapted.
to be applied upon the strands of wire form-
ing a fence, and are used to tighten or stretch
15 the same by winding the strand about one end
of the device and engaging the other end of
the latter with the strand.
The object of my improvements is to pro-
vide a simple device of this class which will
20 possess advantages in point of inexpensive-
ness and durability of construction, and con-
venience, strength, and general efficiency in
operation.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
25 view of a wire-tightener embodying my im-
provements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section-
al view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse
sectional view in detail, taken on a plane
between the winding-pins. Fig. 4 is a side
30 view showing the device in position upon the
wire.
Corresponding parts in the figures are de-
noted by the same letters of reference.
Referring to the drawings, A designates a
35 bar or lever, which forms the body of the
wire-tightener, and is preferably flattened at
one end, a.
From the face of the end a project two lat-
eral pins, B B, formed integral with the body,
40 and disposed about centrally and in a longi-
tudinal plane.
A small space, b', is left between the inte-
gral pins, and from tlhe inner face of one of
the pins projects an integral pin, b, extend-
45 ing nearly across the space b', and disposed
near the outer end of the pin B, which car-
ries it. The other end of the bar or lever A
is provided with the integral hook C, which
projects laterally on a plane at right angles
50 with the pins B B.My improved stretcher or fastener is pref-
erably formed of cast or malleable iron, and
is constructed in a single piece, all of its parts
being integral, as shown.
The operation and advantages of my im- 55
proved wire-stretcher will be readily under-
stood by those skilled in the art to which it
appertains. It can be manufactured at a com-
paratively small cost, and its construction,
especially in the arrangement of the two sim- 6c
ple lateral pins and the small pin projecting
between the same, is exceedingly simple, and
enables the device to be readily cast or formed
in a single piece.
To stretch and tighten the wire, it is only 65
necessary to place the wire in the space b' be-
tween the pins B, (in which position it will
be retained by the small pin b,) and then turn
the device until the wire is wound to the de-
sired extent upon the pins, when the hook C 70
is adjusted over the wire to secure the device
in position thereon.
It is manifest that my improved wire-tight-
ener is not only useful in repairing breaks and
for tightening racked fences, but will answer 75
every purpose in constructing new fences that
can be accomplished by more complicated and
cumbersome devices of its class; and it is also
manifest that in tightening the wire this im-
proved form of tightener draws the latterfrom 80
both directions at the same time, thus accom-
plishing efficient action upon great length of
wire.
I am aware that wire-stretchers have been
heretofore constructed of a bar or lever hav- 85
ing a drum at one end, around which the
wire is wound, and provided with a hook or
catch at the other end, and also that in some
constructions of this class of stretchers pins
have been employed in lieu of the drum, and 90
I therefore do not broadly claim such con-
struction.
I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-
ent-
As an improved article of manufacture, the 95
herein-described wire stretcher and tighten-
er, comprising the bar or lever A, having the
flattened end a, the cylindrical pins B B, pro-
jecting laterally from the face of said flattened
end, and arranged apart, as described, the ioo
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Irvine, John B. Wire Stretcher., patent, April 21, 1885; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth170951/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.