WIRE FENCING BY MACHINERY.

Evening Star, Issue 4045, 12 February 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

WIRE FENCING BY MACHINERY.

The 'Scientific American' for October 16 contains the following account of a new invention :—A novel machine is one for making wire fence, an inexpensive and form of enclosure, which deserves to be 1 popular among farmers. The wire, led from a series of reels, is brought up and under two sets of vertical hammers, the latter actuated, one set at a time, by cam mechanism. The tiprights which support the wire are of wood, and are laid, one at a time, on the projections of endless bands, which carry them under the wire and beneath the hammers. Under the first row. of hammers are guides which conduct copper staples, one at a time, over each intersection of wire and post. Then the first hammers fall and drive the staples partially in, and the second hammers, as the fence is carried along, deliver their blowand complete the insertion. There are six wires, and the pickets are four feet in length. The fence can be made with fifteen or thirty pickets to the rod, and is usually formed in sections of ten rods each. It appears to be very strong. It is portable, and can be rolled and secured as easy as so much carpet. Farmers who use it might thus readily, on moving from one residence to another, take up their fences and transport them with their other farm appurtenances. Mr A. C. Betts is the inventor, and he says that the machine will make 400 rods of fence per day.