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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE W. WRIGHT, OF AVALON, TEXAS.
WIRE-STRETCHER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,546, dated December 8, 1891.
Application filed July 29, 1891. Serial No. 401,076, (No model.)To all whom it 7ay concern:
Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WRIGHT, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Ava-
lon, in the county of Ellis and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Wire-
Stretcher, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to fences, and more
especially to the stretchers used in connec-
Io tion therewith and adapted to stretch the wire
of such fences; and the object of the same is
to produce a stretcher whereby the ends of a
broken wire may be connected and the wirei
at the same time tightly stretched.
15 To this end the invention consists in a
stretcher of the construction hereinafter more
fully described and claimed, and as illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings, where-
in-
20 Figure 1 is an elevation of a section of a
fence, showing the ends of a broken wire at-
tached to myimproved device and about to
be connected. Fig. 2 shows the next posi-
tion, the stretcher having been turned over
25 and the sections of the wire engaged in the
hooks. Fig. 3 shows the means of connect-
ing the ends after the wire is stretched, the
latter having been disengagedfrom the hooks
and the stretcher again turned over. Fig. 4
30 is an enlarged perspective detail of the
stretcher alone, showing my preferred form
thereof. Fig. 5 is a section across the stretcher
shown in Fig. 4 and through one of the clamps.
Referring to the said drawings, the letters P
35 designate posts connected by wires, the up-
permost one of which is shown in the present
instance as broken and its sections are let-
tered W and W'.
The letter S designates my improved
40 stretcher, which is of the construction best
seen in Fig. 4. The same comprises a body
B, having alternately-disposed ratchet-teeth
R on its edges, and having at its opposite
ends in one face hooks H H', and in the same
45 face adjacent the hook II a catch in the form
of a clamp or eye I'.
O is the operating lever or handle whose
body is bifurcated, as shown, and passes
astride the body B, and pivotally mounted in
50o this bifurcation are pawls P P', whose free
or rear ends are connected by links L L', alsopassing astride the body. In the operating-
handle O between the pivots of the pawls is
a catch in the form of a clamp or eye I.
In the operation of connecting the ends of 55
a broken fence-wire the steps shown in Figs.
1, 2, and 3 are necessary. The stretcher S is
inverted, as shown in Fig. 1, and the end of
the section W connected to the catchI, while
the section W' is connected to the catch I'. 60
The body is then slid through the handle, so
as to bring the two catches as nearly together
as possible, after which the whole stretcher is
inverted to the position shown in Fig. 2 and
the two sections of the wire engaged in the 65
hooks. The handle is then manipulated so
that the pawls shall engage the ratchet-teeth
and move the handle over the body, thereby
drawing the catch I away from the catch I',
and as the sections W W' cross each other at 70
the point X the entire wire will be very
tightly stretched. After the stretching is fin-
ished and the desired tension imparted to the
wire the sections are disengaged from the
hooks and the entire stretcher again turned 75
over in the same direction-that is, with the
arrow-whereby loops will be formed at the
adjacent ends of the sections, and these loops
will interlock with each other at the point X.
The sections may then be disconnected from 80
the catches and their ends twisted around
their bodies to fasten them together; but I
preferably continue to revolve the stretcher
in the direction indicated, whereby the sec-
tions will be connected by a twist of great 85
strength.
In Fig. 4 is shown my preferred construc-
tion of this device, which, however, will be
slightly more expensive than that elsewhere
illustrated. In this construction all the parts 90
are the same as above described, with the ex-
ception of the catches, there shown as eyes I
I', and these I replace by clamps, as shown.
The clamp i on the operating-lever O con-
sists of a lever or bar 1, pivoted at 2 upon the 95
outer face of a block 3, which is secured, as
by bolts or rivets 4, to the outer face of the
lever 0, and this block has a shoulder 5,
against which the inner end of the lever 1 or
a shoulder at such inner end is adapted to be oo
borne when the lever is turned in the proper
direction. The clamp i' at the end of the
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Wright, George W. Wire-Stretcher, patent, December 8, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172875/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.