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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MARION F. DICKEY, OF PENDLETONVILLE, TEXAS.
WIREWORKING-TOOL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,604, dated September 17, 1901.
Ap-plication filed March 28, 1900, Serial No. 10,511. (No model)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, MARION F. DICKEY, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Pen-
dletonville, in the county of Bell and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Wire-
working-Tool,of which the following is a speci-
fication.
This invention relates to wireworking-tools,
and has for its object to provide an improved
to device of this character which is especially
designed for twisting the intermediate por-
tion of a tie-wire which secures a runner-
wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the em-
brace of the tie-wire upon the post.
15 It is furthermore designed to arrange the
wire-twisting device for conveniently draw-
ing staples and also to provide the tool with
-a wire-cutter and a screw-driver, all of which
are conveniently arranged to facilitate the
20 'operation of the individual devices.
With these and other objects in view the
present invention consists in the combination
and arrangement of parts, as will be herein-,
after more fully described, shown in the ac-
E companying drawings,and particularly point-
ed out in the appended claim, it being un-
'derstood that changes in the form, propor-
tion, size, and minor details may be made
within the scope of the claim without depart-
30 ing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the
advantages of the invention.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a wireworking-tool constructed and
arranged in accordance with the present in-
35 vention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the
tool, showing its application to a fence-post
to twist a tie-wire thereon. Fig. 3 is a top
plan view of Fig. 2.
Corresponding parts in the several figures
4o of the drawings are designated by like char-
acters of reference.
Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the
'handle of the tool, which is in the form of a
straight bar having its forward end enlarged
45 into a flat head 2, from the outer end of which
projects a lateral substantially U-shaped fork
3, having two pointed prongs which are de-
signed to form a support for the tool in the
operation thereof as a wire-twister and a sta-
5o pie-puller.
Located below the fork and projecting lat-
erally at opposite sides of the handle is a ro-tatable rod or spindle 4, which has its outer
end provided with an operating crank or han-
dle,5, and its inner end being formed into a 55
hook 6, which is located beneath and between
the opposite prongs of the fork, as best shown
in Fig. 3. This rod or spindle is mounted
upon one side of the handle 1 by means of a
bearing-plate 7, which has an intermediate 6o
eye 8 for the reception of the rod and is se-
cured to the handle by means of suitable fas-
tenings 9.
Pivoted to the head 2 and opposite the spin-
dle 4 is an arm 10, which has its inner or piv- 65
otal end flattened and provided with a knife-
edge 11 to travel across a notch12, formed in
the inner edge of the handle 1, so as to form
a wire-cutter, as will be readily understood.
The opposite-free end of the arm is flattened, 70
so as to form a screw-driver head 13, and this
arm is formed so that the free end thereof
may rest against the adjacent outer side of the
handle, as shown in Fig. 2, to limit the move-
ment of the arm and to provide a compara- 75
tively large gripping-surface for the hands of
the operator.
To set forth the operation of the device,
reference is had to Figs. 2 and 3, in which 14
designates an ordinary wooden fence-post, 8o,
having a runner-wire 15 connected to one side
thereof by means of a looped tie-wire 16,
which embraces the post and has its opposite
ends twisted upon the runner-wire. When
the tie-wire is first applied, it loosely em- 85
braces the post, and it is the purpose of the
present tool to tighten the embrace of the tie-
wire. This is accomplished by placing the
prongs of the fork against the side of the post
and above the tie-wire and engaging the 90
hooked end of the rod or spindle 4 with the
intermediate portion of the looped tie-wire,
after which the crank-handle 5 is operated
to rotate the spindle, and thereby twist the tie-
wire, whereby the latter is caused to tightly 95
embrace the post. It will be understood that
the spindle is loosely slidable longitudinally
through its bearing, so as to facilitate the en-
gagement of the hook with the wire and also
to automatically accommodate the spindle to 1oo
the shortening of the loop as the wire is be-
ing twisted. After the loop 16 has been
twisted to any preferred degree of tightness
it is designed to more tightly draw the run-
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Dickey, Marion F. Wireworking Tool, patent, September 17, 1901; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511237/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.