Patent Application
20250179832
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The disclosure relates to fencing devices and more particularly pertains to a new fencing device for automatically fastening a fence wire to a fence post. The device includes a fencing gun which has a grapple to engage the fence wire. The device includes a cartridge which stores a plurality of fencing clips and the cartridge is insertable into the fencing gun. The fencing gun shoots the fencing clips and the grapple forces the fencing clips to bend around the fence wire and the fence post for attaching the fence wire to the fence post.
The prior art relates to fencing devices including a power tool device which includes a pair of jaws that are rotatable about a common axis for wrapping a wire tie around rebar. The prior art discloses a twist tie device that includes a spool mounted to a housing which has a pair of spaced grips. The prior art discloses a wire clip gun that includes a pair of grips that are each disposed on a barrel of a clip gun and which are closable together for bending a wire clip around a pair of intersecting members. The prior art discloses a fence clip tool that includes a pair of fingers that bend a wire clip around a fence post. The prior art discloses an ornamental design for a vine tying machine that includes a gun, a spool rotatably attached to the gun and a finger curving downwardly in front of the gun.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a fencing gun that has a handle, a trigger movably integrated into the handle, a barrel and a grapple attached to the barrel. The grapple has a pair of gripping elements and a fence post can be positioned between the gripping elements. A cartridge is removably attachable to the barrel of the fencing gun which stores a plurality of fencing clips. The fencing gun shoots a single fencing clip outwardly through the barrel when the fencing gun is actuated. The pair of gripping elements bends the single fencing clip around the fence post and the fence wire thereby securing the fence wire to the fence post.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The fencing gun 12 includes an actuator 36 that is positioned within the fencing gun 12 and a piston 38 that is disposed in the actuator 36. The actuator 36 urges the piston 38 into an extended position having the piston 38 extending into the barrel 18 when the actuator 36 is turned on. The actuator 36 biases the piston 38 into a retracted position having the piston 38 being displaced from the barrel 18 when the actuator 36 is turned off. The actuator 36 is electrically coupled to the trigger 16 and the actuator 36 is turned on when the trigger 16 is depressed. Conversely, the actuator 36 is turned off a predetermined time after the actuator 36 is turned on. The actuator 36 may comprise an electromagnetic solenoid, a linear electromechanical actuator or any other type of actuator that can produce linear motion.
A cartridge 40 is included and the cartridge 40 is removably attachable to the barrel 18 of the fencing gun 12. The cartridge 40 stores a plurality of fencing clips 42 and the fencing gun 12 urges a single one of the plurality of fencing clips 43 outwardly through the barrel 18 when the fencing gun 12 is actuated. The pair of gripping elements 22 forces the single fencing clip 43 to be bent into a curve when the fencing gun 12 is actuated. In this way the fencing gun 12 can bend the single fencing clip 43 around the fence post 24 and the fence wire 26 thereby securing the fence wire 26 to the fence post 24. The fence post 24 may be a T-post and the fence wire 26 may be barbed wire, straight wire or any other type of fence wire 26 that is commonly employed to construct fencing.
Each of the fencing clips 42 has a central member 46 extending between a pair of outward members 48. The piston 38 abuts the central member 46 of the single fencing clip 43 when the actuator 36 is turned on thereby urging the single fencing clip 43 outwardly through the barrel 18 and onto the tray 34 of the grapple 20. Each of the outward members 48 of the single fencing clip 43 abuts the foot 32 associated with each of the gripping elements 22 thereby forcing each of the outward members 48 to curve rearwardly toward the distal end 30 of the barrel 18. In this way the single fencing clip 43 attaches the fence wire 26 to the fence post 24 having each of the outward members 48 being wrapped around the fence wire 26 and having the central member 46 abutting the fence post 24.
A power supply 50 is provided and the power supply 50 is removably insertable into a well 52 in the handle 14 of the fencing gun 12. The power supply 50 is placed into electrical communication with an electrical contact 54 that is integrated into the handle 14. Additionally, the electrical contact 54 is electrically coupled to the trigger 16 thereby facilitating the power supply 50 to be in electrical communication with the actuator 36 when the trigger 16 is pulled. The power supply 50 may comprise a rechargeable battery such as a lithium ion battery or other rechargeable battery that is commonly associated with cordless power tools.
In use, the fencing clips 42 are loaded into the cartridge 40 in a stacked orientation and the cartridge 40 is loaded into the fencing gun 12. The fencing gun 12 is positioned such that the fence post 24 is positioned between the pair of gripping elements 22 and the foot 32 associated with each of the gripping elements 22 extends downwardly in front of the fence wire 26. The trigger 16 is pulled to shoot a single fencing clip 43 outwardly into the gripping elements 22. The foot 32 associated with each of the gripping elements 22 forces the outward members 48 of the single fencing clip 43 to curve around the fence wire 26 and the central member 46 is abutted against the fence post 24. In this way the fencing clips 42 are automatically wrapped around the fence wire 26 and the fence post 24 for securing the fence wire 26 to the fence post 24.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
