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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM T. WILLIE, OF INDEPENDENCE, TEXAS.
WIRE-STRETCHER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,261, dated August 18, 1896.
Application filed December 6, 1895. Serial No, 571,296. (No model.)To aZll zcwhom it 772 concern
Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. WILLIE, of
Independence, in the county of Washington
and State of Texas, have invented certain new
5 and useful Improvements in Wire-Stretchers;
and I do hereby declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description of theinven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled ih the
art to which it pertains to make and use it, ref-
io erence being had to the accompanying draw-
ings, which form part of this specification.
This invention has reference to wire-
stretchers, and the object of the same is to pro-
vide a device of simple and improved form
15 and possessing great power for the purpose
of making taut fence or other wires.
The invention consists in the novel features
of construction hereinafter fully described
and claimed, and illustrated by the accom-
20 panying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the
stretcher. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same,
shown partly in section.
The frame of the stretcher consists of the
25 rectangular end portions A, which are con-
nected together by the transverse central
frame portion B. A shaft C extends from
end to end of the frame, one end of said shaft
being formed with right-hand threads and the
30 other end with left-hand threads arranged
centrally upon the shaft for the purpose of
rotating the same, and within the central
frame portion B is the hand-wheelD. From
the periphery of this wheel project the holds
35 E, and for the purpose of rotating the same
when turning too hard for operation with the
hand alone I provide the lever F. This lever
at its inner end has slots G, whereby the le-
ver is held to the shaft, and between its ends,
40 at a point beyond the outer periphery of the
wheel, the same is formed with the angle or
step H. When the lever is not required for
use, it may be moved to the position shown in
Fig. 1; but when needed for turning the wheel
45 the same is turned to the position shown in
Fig. 2, in which case the said step or bend of
the lever projects over the wheel-periphery
and into engagement with one of the hand-
holds, and by this means a strong leverage is
50 obtained on the shaft and the same is readily
rotated.
The inner opposite edges of the sections Aare formed with beads I, and slidable on said
beads are the heads J, which have the cen-
trally - arranged screw - threaded openings 55
through which the screw - shaft extends.
Thus by rotating the shaft the heads are
moved either toward or away from the center
of the framework, as will be readily under-
stood. 60
K designates wire loops which are extended
inward through the end bars or extremities
of the frame A and upon opposite sides of the
screw-shaft and connected to the longitudi-
nally-movable heads, as shown. The outer 65
ends of these loops are formed into eyes L, to
which the wire to be stretched may be readily
attached, as will be understood.
By means of the device here shown and de-
scribed a powerful pull may be exerted upon 70
the wire and the same drawn to the tension
desired.
The uses to which the machine described
may be put are varied. It may, for instance,
be used in splicing wires which have become 75
broken, in which case the wire upon the re-
spective sides of the break are secured to the
loops and the wheel rotated, so as to stretch
the wire tightly, when the same may be se-
cured in any desired manner. It may be also 80
used for removing slack from line-wire, as
will readily occur to those skilled in the art
to which the invention pertains.
The illustration of the invention is con-
fined to the machineitself. The uses to which 85
it may be put are apparent and well under-
stood, and it is deemed unnecessary to show
the same as in actual operation.
Having thus fully described my invention,
what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 90
Patent, is-
1. In a wire-stretcher, the combination of
a fram e, a shaft mounted therein, wire-stretch-
ing devices adapted to be operated by the ro-
tation of the shaft, the operating-wheel car- 95
rying peripheral projections, and the lever
slotted longitudinally at its inner end where
it is mounted upon the shaft and which is
adapted between its ends to engage the pe-
ripheral projections of the wheel when pushed ico
inward upon the shaft, and which when drawn
outward clears the said projections, substan-
tially as shown and described.
2. In a wire-stretcher, the combination of
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Willie, William T. Wire-Stretcher., patent, August 18, 1896; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174353/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.