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Fence-Building Machine

Description: Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Kline, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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