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Patented April 5, 1904.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN W. MONTGOMERY, OF NIMROD, TEXAS.
WIRE-STRETCHER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,389, dated April 5, 1904.
Application filed June 10, 1903. Serial No. 160,813, (No model,)To all whom it 7may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN W. MONTGOMERY,
a citizen of the United States, residing at Nim-
rod, in the county of Eastland, State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Improve-
ments in Wire-Stretchers; and I do hereby de-
clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact
description of the invention, such as will en-
able others skilled in the art to which it apper-
10 trains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to wire-stretchers;
and it has for its object-to provide a stretcher
which will be formed of a single bar of metal
at a minimum cost and which will have one of
15 its wire-holding members so formed that it
may be used also in pulling staples. .
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide a stretcher having a cutting-blade con-
veniently arranged, so that after the stretch-
20 ing operation and after the wire has been firmly
stapled to the-end post it may be.cut off, the
cutting-blade being also useful for cutting wire
at other times.
In the drawings forming a portion of this
25 specification, and in which like numerals of
reference indicate similar parts in both views,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wire-
stretcher. Fig. 2 is a transverse section
through the wire-stretcher at one side of the
30 cutting-blade, the position of the wire during
the cutting operation being illustrated.
Referring now to the drawings, the present
wire-stretcher consists of a bar 5, which is
preferably of metal, and at one end of which
35 is a transverse perforation or eye 6, which is
designed to receive a cross-bar 7, which forms
a handle, which is grasped to rotate the bar
5 during the stretching operation. At the op-
posite end of the bar 5 from the eye 6 and
40 spaced slightly rearwardly from the extremity
thereof is formed a finger 9 of substantially
arc shape. This finger from its base curves
outwardly and away from the bar 5 and then
inwardly, so that its extremity is separated
45 from the face of the bar 5 by only a slight in-
terspace 10 suficient to receive a wire or astaple in its passage into the inclosure between
the finger and the bar 5. The inner face of
the finger-that is, the face adjacent to the bar
5-is thus concaved. 50
In the operation of stretching the wire the
wire is engaged between the finger and the
adjacent face of the bar and the bar is then
rotated so that the wire is wound over the fin-
ger and the bar in the manner illustrated in 55
Fig. 2 of the drawings, this operation being
continued until the wire is placed under the
desired tension. To facilitate this operation
of the bar, the end thereof beyond the finger
is formed cylindrical, so that it rolls readily 6o
against the face of a fence-post.
To provide for cutting the wire, the metal
of the bar 5 at the opposite side from the fin-
ger 9 is drawn or shaped into a cutting edge
or blade 11, this blade extending longitudi- 65
nally of the bar 5 and being just to one side
of that portion of the bar about which the
. fence-wire is wound in the stretching opera-
tion, so that when the wire has been stretched
to the proper tension it may be stapled fast 70
and then manipulated to lie across the cutting-
blade, where it may be struck with a hammer
to cut it. Instead of forming this blade of
the same metal as the bar it will be under-
stood that it may be formed of a separate 75
piece of metal welded or otherwise attached
to the bar at theproper point.
By forming the finger 9 with its extremity
turned inwardly toward the bar 5 the tool
makes an efficient staple-puller. To pull sta- 8o
ples, the extremity of the finger is engaged
through or around the bight of the staple and
the bar 5 is disposed with its adjacent end
against the post as a fulcrum, when the lever
is operated to draw the staple, the curvature 85
of the finger preventing the staple from acci-
dentally leaving the finger, although it may be
subsequently withdrawn readily.
It will be noted from the above description
that the present tool has three distinct uses, 90
and in each use of the tool an element is em-
ployed which is employed in another use ofW o. 756,389..
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Montgomery, John W. Wire Stretcher, patent, April 5, 1904; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509173/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.