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Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bar having a longitudinal slot, with knife-edge and forked twisting-hooks, and the offsetting lever-handle having flat portion, with notch or wire-seat fulcrumed in the slot of the bar and having its outer end extended in the form of a prong between the twisting-hooks . . . to form a discharging device for the wire" (lines 64-72).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross
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Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to that class of wire stretchers or tighteners which are adapted to be applied upon the strands of wire forming a fence, and are used to tighten or stretch the same by winding the strand about one end of the device and engaging the other end of the latter with the strand" ( lines 11-17).
Date: April 21, 1885
Creator: Irvine, John B.
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Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a gate, one of the rails whereof is about thrice as thick as the remainder of said rails, and is provided with a central groove along its upper face, of three supporting-posts, each having a recess furnished with a roller in its lower part, upon which the aforesaid rail may travel, a tongue projecting from the upper edge of said recess into the groove of said rail, and an upright attached to the central post, s… more
Date: March 17, 1885
Creator: Davis, Richard I.
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Farm Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging gate pivoted at its lower inner end and suspended by a diagonal wire, upon which it swings in being opened and closed, the adjustable bar provided with a depending loop or staple for the suspending-wire, the point of suspension by said loop, being between the latch end of the gate and a vertical line drawn through its pivot-pin" (lines 51-58).
Date: September 13, 1881
Creator: Miller, Wilson B.
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Farm Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "is mounted upon a hinge-rod, which is adapted for adjustment at its upper end within a rack fixed to the top of the hinge-post and provided with a pivoted keeper for said hinge-rod, the object being to set the upper end of the hinge-rod away from the latch-post as may be required to raise the free end of the gate to take up the sag, to support the gate a sufficient height above the ground to swing free of snow, and to allow of the passage of smal… more
Date: September 13, 1881
Creator: Miller, Wilson B. & Bell, William H.
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Fence Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Jinkins, Thomas William
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