Wire Stretcher.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has relation to that class of wire-stretchers in which a drum is journaled in a frame and is provided with a ratchet-wheel at one end, and in which a lever is pivoted in the frame, which engages the ratchet-wheel, serving to revolve it, and a pawl engages the ratchet-wheel, so as to prevent it from revolving backward, the frame being provided with a wire-clamp, and a rope or chain upon the drum being also provided with a wire-clamp, so …
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Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Menefee, Stephen Austin & Mullinax, Eli Stephens
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department