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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
ROBERT P. MAYO, OF PARIS, TEXAS.
WIRE-FENCE SUPPORT.
$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,542, dated November 7, 1899.
Application filed October 17, 1898. Serial No. 693,764. (No model)To all whom it may con ceili:
Be it known that I, ROBERT P. MAYO, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Paris, in
the county of Lamar, State of Texas, have in-
5 vented certain new and useful Improvements
in Wire-Fence Supports; and I do hereby de-
clare the following to be a full, clear, and ex-
act description of the invention, such as will
enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-
1o pertains to make and use the same.
My invention relates to wire fencing in gen-
eral, and more particularly to the means for
holding the wires thereof in what is known
as "stay" fencing, which means may be either
15 a stay placed intermediate the posts or may
be a post, the invention embodying both posts
and stays.
The object of my invention is to provide a
cheap, simple, and efficient device of this na-
20 ture which will be adapted not only for use
in connection with the common stay fence,
but may also be used to brace or support woven
fencing.
In the drawings forming a portion of this
25 specification, and in which like letters of ref-
erence indicate similar parts in the several
views,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fence-
stay constructed in accordance with my in-
vention. Fig. 2 is a front view of a fence-
30 post constructed in the same manner as the
stay with the exception that the base-plate is
extended to enter the ground. Fig. 3 is a
side view of a modification, and Fig. 4 is a
side view of a further modification.
35 Referring now to the drawings, in operat-
ing in accordance with my invention to con-
struct a fence-stay I form a base-plate a of a
length sufficient to reach from a point below
the bottom wire of the fence to which it is to
4o be applied to a point above the top wire there-
of and of such a width as may be deemed nec-
essary, said plate being of galvanized iron or
other suitable material. Secured to one face
of the plate a or made integral therewith and
45 extending from a point adjacent one end of
the plate a to a point adjacent the other end
is a rib b, the ends of said rib being projected
outwardly, as shown at c and d.
A bifurcated plate e, having its extremities
5o f and g curled to form a hinge element, is se-
cured to one end of rib b by means of a pin
h, passed through said curled ends and a per-foration in the end c of rib b, whereby said
plate e may lie at its opposite end upon the
plate a and may inclose with its legs the rib b. 55
V-shaped slots i are formed in the rib b to
receive the wires k of the fence to which the
stay is applied, as shown in Fig.1 of the draw-
ings, the plate e being lifted to the position
shown in dotted lines before application of 6o
the stay to the fence, after which said plate
is depressed to hold the wires within the slots
IL, plate e being held in its clamping position
by means of a pin 1, passed through a perfo-
ration m in the end d of rib b. 65
In Fig. 2 of the drawings is shown a fence-
post constructed in accordance with the stay
just described, the base-plate a' being ex-
tended to enter the earth, as shown, the other
elements b', c', d', e', f', g h', i', k', 1', and en' 70
being the same in construction and arrange-
ment as just described in connection with
Fig. 1.
Referring now to Fig. 3 of the drawings, the
stay herein shown is the same in construction 75
as that shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, with
the exception that the rib B has no slots there-
in to receive the wires of the fence, said wires
being bent over the rib, as shown at K, when
the plate E is depressed over the rib. 8o
In Fig. 4 of the drawings still another modi-
fication is shown, which modification con-
sists of a base-plate A', having a longitudinal
rib B' corresponding to the rib b of Fig. 1
and provided with slots I' for the reception 85
of the fence-wires. In this construction, how-
ever, the ends of the rib are not projected up-
wardly, and instead of using a plate M', hinged
to the rib, a hair-pin E' is employed, and after
the wires K' of the fence are seated in the 90
slots I' of the rib B' the legs of the hair-pin are
passed through loops 0', projecting from the
plate A'.
It will be readily understood that I may
vary the specific construction and arrange- 95
ment herein set forth and that I may employ
any desired material that may be deemed nec-
essary in the construction of my invention
without departing from the spirit thereof.
It will be noted that the lower end of the zoe
stay has the base-plate bifurcated, the re-
sultant ends being bent in opposite directions
to form feet for supporting the stay upon the
ground.
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Mayo, Robert P. Wire-Fence Support., patent, November 7, 1899; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514683/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.