US280100A - Andbew j - Google Patents

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Patented June 26, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREYV J. UPHAM, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE \VASHBURN 8: MOENMANUFAOTURING COMPANY, OF WVOBCESTER, MASS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,100, dated June 26, 1883.

Application filed March 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. UPHAM, of Sterling, in the county of \Vhiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use- 5 ful Improvements in Barbed"VIetalStri p Fencing and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

IO and in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a section of my improved barbed-metalstrip fencing. Fig. 2 represents an edge view of the section of fencing shown in Fig. 1. and Fig. repre- 15 sents a section on line 00 .r, Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow, same figure.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination, with a flat metal strip, of a sheetmetal barb stamped or cut out and attached 2o thereto in a peculiar manner, to be hereinafter more fully described.

To enable those skilled in theart to which" 1), Figs. 1 and 3, at regular intervals, with a die. The barb B is bent together at its middle point, and the two ends (I. a inserted to gether through the opening I) a certain distance, leaving the loop 0 on one side of the strip A, and the two ends (6 (1. extending out in a straight direction on the other side of said strip. The ends a a are then bent or pressed down against the flat side of strip A, so as to extend out in opposite direction and rest upon h the strip for support. The loop a on the other side of the strip is then crushed or pressed down, so as to lie fiat along the other side of the strip A, and thus hold the barb B securely in position, as is fully shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings Afterthe ends a. (1. have been inserted through the opening 7), they may be bent back, and the loop 0 be also pressed flat at one and the same time and by the same operation. If preferred, the loop or head 0 may be formed before the ends a a. are inserted in the slit or opening b. I

Having described my improvements in barbed-metalstrip fencing, what I claim there in as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with metal strip A, pro vided with openings or slits b, of a sheet-metal barb, 13, provided with head or loop 0, sub stantially as shown and described.

ANDRE\V J. UPHA M. \Vitnesses:

JOHN C. DEWEY, AIBER'I A. BARKER.

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