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Wire-Tightening Implement.

Description: Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: West, James M.
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Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Description: Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
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Hinge.

Description: Patent for gate-hinge that will attach to gate and supporting-post and will "retain the gate normally in closed position." (lines 11-12), including description and illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1901
Creator: Roots, Preston
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Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "compris[es] the main end and intermediate posts anchored in the ground, the longitudinal wires connected to said main end posts and let into said intermediate posts, said end posts being suitably braced and said longitudinal wires being connected together by tie-wires, and the supplemental posts, to which are also bound or secured said longitudinal wires, having the horizontal feet of approximate figure-8 shape resting squarely on the ground or … more
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Kerr, James, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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