Appeal No. 2004-0366 Page 14
Application No. 09/848,044
locking the shaft 7 or 7' in a position that maintains the wires 1 of the fence under
tension.
Barnes relates to a fence post 10, as shown in Figures 1-3, for suspending
thereto a plurality of horizontally disposed wires 17, which are disposed parallel to each
other. A plurality of pairs of tongues (18-19, 20-21, 22-23 etc.) are disposed along the
vertical length of the fence post 10. As best shown in Figures 2 and 3, the tongues of
each pair are bent in opposite directions, e.g., the tongue 14 is turned downwardly while
the other tongue 15 of the pair is turned upwardly. Adjacent wires 17 engage
respectively first and second pairs of tongues, whereby corresponding tongues of the
first and second pairs are bent in opposite directions; for example, tongue 18 is bent
upward and tongue 14 is bend downward. The wires 17 are mounted upon the fence
post 10 by slipping a wire 17 under one tongue and then the other tongue of its pair.
The tongues are not bent to clamp or engage their wires 17 as would prevent
movement of the wires 17 due to changes in temperature, wind pressure or damage
suffered by one climbing on the fence. As a result, all of the wires 17 mounted by the
fence post 10 tend to remain under the same tension that was created by the original
stretching of the fence. Further as a result of the use of these tongues, each of the
plurality of wires 17 suspended from a single fence post 10 is connected thereto with
the same degree of tightness.
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