Wire-clamp.

Application filed October 26, 1909. Serial No. 524,706.

To dll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, David P. Page, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent 5 and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WireClamps ; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others 10 skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in wire clamps, and its object is to provide a clamp adapted to secure a wire to a me15 tallic post or other support of like character, and to provide the same with various new and useful features, hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the ac20 companying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a front elevation of a portion of the same; Fig. 3 an elevation of the same at right angles to Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 an inverted plan view of the same; and, Fig. 5 an upright plan view of the same.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

1 represents two T-bars arranged with their head portions opposite each other and parallel, and also spaced apart a sufficient distance to receive therebetween the bolts 7. 2 represents wires attached to the said bars 35 by means of my device, which consists essentially of a plate 3 having marginal extensions 4 at its sides and near the lower corners thereof turned toward the T-bars at right angles and recessed in the edge to engage the wire 2. The upper end of this clamp is also turned toward the said bars at right angles, as at 5, to engage and rest upon the edges of the head portions of the bars and form a support for the upper end of the plate 3. This portion 5 is also provided with a lug 6, which is adapted to enter between the bars 1, being of a width substantially the same as the diameter of the bolt 7, and thus prevents turning of the plate about the axis of the bolt. Extending between the head members of the bars and through the plate near the center thereof, is a bolt 7 of the usual carriage bolt form.

The square neck 8 of the bolt between the bars prevents the turning of the bolt upon 55 its axis when the nut is tightened and a washer 9 between the bolt head and the bars affords a support for the bolt head and has its opposite sides bent inward to embrace the bars and prevent the same from spread- 60 ing apart. The wires 2 are thus clamped between the extensions 4 extending at the opposite sides of the angle bars, and the edges of the head portions of the angle bars, and is thus bent out of alinement and se- 65 curely held between the same. The extensions 4 are spaced apart from the head portions of the angle bars to prevent shearingoff of the wires, and at the same time bend the wires sufficient to prevent them from 70 slipping endwise. It will be noted that the clamp and washer hold the T-bars in close relation to the bolt and that the bars require no other connecting means; also that the device is vertically adjustable in the bars at 75 pleasure.