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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH BORYGARD MASSEY, OF LLANO, TEXAS.
WIRE STRETCHER AND SPLICER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,731, dated May 26, 1896.
Application file  November 6,1895. Serial No, 568,081, (No model,)

To all whom  i may concer a:
Be it known that I, JOSEPH BORYGARD
MASSEY, a citizen of the United States, resid-
ing at Llano, in the county of Llano and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Wire Stretchers and
Splicers; and I do declare the following to be
a full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled in
io the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same, reference being had to the ac-
companying drawings, and to the letters of
reference marked thereon, which form a part
of this specification.
15   The special object of the invention is to
make a wire-patcher by which the wire rails
of fences may be spliced when broken and
stretched when any slack occurs. The tool
which I employ will stretch wire one or two
20 hundred yards by simply pulling around a
post.
Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation
showing how the two ends of a broken wire are
spliced; Fig. 2, a similar elevation showing
25 how a slack wire is stretched, and Fig. 3 a
front view of the jaws of my patcher.
In the drawings, A represents two levers
correspondingly shaped, pivoted at a, where
they intersect, provided with clamping-jaws
30 C C at one end, and having the hook a' and
eye a" at the other end, the hook and eye be-
ing arranged in planes at right angles to each
other. Through the eye a' passes a bolt B,
threaded at one end and provided with a
35 handled nutD. At the other end of the bolt is

formed a flat head with the slot b to engage
the hook a'.
The clamping-jaws C C have each an end
projection c, but they are diagonally opposite
to each other; also, a wedge-groove c'; but the 40
two grooves are not opposite to each other, so
as to register when the jaws are clamped to-
gether. These grooves are cut deeper toward
the outside, as shown in Fig. 3 of the draw-
ings. The jaws grasp the broken ends of the 45
wire, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and
the wire at two points, as shown in Fig. 2 of
the drawings, and are then brought together
by turning the handled nut on the thread of
the screw.                                 50
I have found this to be a very useful and
labor-saving tool on a farm in wire-fencing,
being so conveniently portable and adapted
to be so easily used without any assistance.
What I claim as new, and desire to protect 55
by Letters Patent, is-
A wire-stretcher having jaws with the di-
agonally opposite end projections c c and, be-
tween said projections, the wedge-grooves c' c'
to hold the ends of wire while they are being 6o
drawn together, the said grooves not being
opposite to each other but arranged as shown
and described.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature
in presence of two witnesses.
JOSEPH BORYGARD MASSEY,
Witnesses:
H. R. MCINNIs,
T. G. HILL.