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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN V. ALLEN, OF SIPE SPRINGS, TEXAS.
WIRE-FENCE MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,931, dated January 25, 1898.
Application filed August 18, 1897. Serial No. 648,682. (No modcl)To all whom it May comce'n:
Be it known that I, JOHN W. ALLEN, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Sipe
Springs, in the county of Comanche and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Wire-Fence Machine, of which the following
is a specification.
My invention relates to a portable wire-
fence machine and reel - carriage, and has
1o for its object to provide a simple, compact,
light,and comparatively inexpensive machine
adapted to be transported with facility to en-
able a single operator to readily distribute
and collect fence-wire, to stretch wire runners,
15 to mend broken runners, and to perform other
similar operations in connection with wire-
fence construction.
Further objects and advantages of this in-
vention will appear in the following descrip-
20 tion,and the novel features thereof willbe par-
ticularly pointed out in the appended claims.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a wire-fence machine constructed in
accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a
25 transverse vertical section of the same in the
plane of the reel-spindle. Fig. 3 is a detail
view showing the operation of the device as
a wire-stretcher, the severed extremities of
the broken wire being engaged with the ob-
30 ject of drawing the same together for mending.
Fig. 4 is a detail view showing a slightly-modi-
fied means for securing the removable bear-
ing-caps in place.
Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-
35 responding parts in all the figures of the draw-
ings.
The machine embodying my invention pref -
erably includes an upright arched frame 1,
consisting of a single bar or rod terminating
40 in stub-axles 2, upon which the supporting or
ground wheels 3 are mounted, one of these
wheels being omitted in Fig. 1 in order to fully
disclose the construction of the adjacent
mechanism. Connected to this arched frame
45 are side beams 4, secured at their rear ends
to the arch and connected at their front ends
by a cross-bar 5, which carries a belt 6, adapt-
ed to be buckled around the waist of the op-
erator. Short braces 7 preferably extend from
5o intermediate points of the side beams rear-
wardly to the arched frame contiguous to the
plane of the stub-axles 2.The sides of the arched frame 1 are provided
with inwardly-extending open-topped bear-
ings S for the reception of the extremities of 55
a reel or spool spindle 9, and the upper sides
of these bearings are adapted to be closed by
means of removable caps 1U, carried by arms
11, which are slidingly mounted upon the
frame, the bolts 12 being fitted with thumb- 6o
nuts 13, by which the arms, and hence the
bearing-caps, may be firmly clamped in their
adjusted positions. It will be seen that the
removability of the bearing-caps provides for
the dismounting with facility of the spool or 65
reel 14, inasmuch as the cap of the bearing at
one side of the machine may be displaced, as
indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, to allow
that end of the spindle to be raised sufficiently
to slide the spool or reel axially therefrom. 7o
Carried by the spool-spindle is a clutch con-
sisting of spring-arms 15, of which the nor-
mal tendency is to spread at their free inner
ends, and fitted to slide upon said arms is a
contracting-ring 16, which when slipped in- 75
wardly toward the free ends of the clamp-
arms draws said extremities toward each other
to engage the cross bars or arms at the con-
tiguous end of the spool or reel, as clearly
shown in Fig. 1. 8o
Mounted upon the side beams, preferably
contiguous to the cross-bar 5 and hence with-
in reach of an operator around whom the belt
6 is buckled, is a driving-shaft 17, connected
by gearing with the spool-spindle and pro- 85
vided with a crank 18, by which said spool-
spindle may be rotated to reel wire thereon.
In the construction illustrated said gearing
consists of sprocket-wheels 19 and 20, fixed,
respectively, upon the driving-shaft and the 90
spool-spindle and connected by a traversing
chain 21. Also attached to the driving-shaft
are flexible connections 22 and 22a, consisting
of rope or its equivalent, terminating in wire-
clutches 23 and 23a, both of said connections 95
being adapted to be coiled upon the driving-
shaft when the latter is rotated by means of
its crank, and a ratchet-clutch is preferably
employed in connection with the driving-shaft
to prevent backward rotation thereof, the ico
form of clutch illustrated in the drawings
consisting of a ratchet-wheel 24, engaged by
a pawl 25.
From the above description it will be seen
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Allen, John W. Wire - Fence Machine., patent, January 25, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513082/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.