User Guide Series: Homer and Jean Blair Collection of United States Patent Models
Barbed Wire Pincher
19.
Barbed Wire Pincher, U. S. Patent 180,351, July 25, 1876, Charles Kennedy,
Hinckley, Illinois.
The
invention is a tool for applying a barb (particularly a Kennedy Barb,
U. S. Patent 153,965, August 11, 1874) to a single wire to make barbed
wire fencing. This invention was manufactured and used.
The model is 14" x 2" x 3/4" and made of black painted iron or
steel. Much of the paint is missing but the tool is still in proper
working condition. A partial Patent Office tag with the patent number
and inventor's name remains. Because of wording on the reverse of the
tag, it is assumed this tool was rescued from the debris of the Patent
Office fire of 1877.
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