Electric fence insulators
AssigneeFi-Shock, Inc.
InventorBrett Burdick
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Abstract
A molded plastic fence insulator including a pair of spaced apart sidewalls connected by a connecting wall, aligned grooves defined across the connecting wall, and retention members associated with the aligned grooves and configured for receiving the wires underneath a portion thereof.
Claims25
A fence insulator for maintaining a pair of fence wires in a desired common plane and spaced a desired distance apart, the insulator comprising a body of molded plastic construction mountable to a support and including a pair of spaced apart sidewalls connected by a connecting wall;
- a first pair of aligned grooves defined across a first portion of the connecting wall;
- a first retention member positioned adjacent the first pair of aligned grooves and configured for receiving one of the wires underneath a portion thereof;
- a second pair of aligned grooves defined across a second portion of the connecting wall spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the first pair of aligned grooves;
- and a second retention member positioned adjacent the second pair of aligned grooves and configured for receiving one of the wires underneath a portion thereof, wherein one of the wires is positionable underneath the first retention member and within the first pair of aligned grooves and the other one of the wires is positionable underneath the second retention member and within the second pair of aligned grooves.
A fence insulator for maintaining a pair of fence wires in a desired common plane and spaced a desired distance apart, the insulator comprising an elongate body of molded plastic construction mountable to a support and including a wire mounting face;
- a first retention member positioned adjacent the wire mounting face and configured for receiving one of the wires underneath a portion thereof;
- and a second retention member configured for receiving the other one of the wires underneath a portion thereof and located adjacent the wire mounting face and longitudinally spaced apart from the first retention member.
A fence insulator for installation at corners of a fence where first and second spaced apart fence wires undergo an abrupt change of direction, the insulator comprising an elongate body of molded plastic construction mountable to a support and including a wire mounting face;
- a first rigid tab positioned adjacent the wire mounting face and having an opening for passage of the first wire and a curved closed end configured for bearing against the first wire to provide a radius for the first wire to curve around to reduce stresses on the first wire as it undergoes a relatively abrupt change of direction;
- and a second rigid tab positioned adjacent the wire mounting face longitudinally spaced apart from the first tab and having an opening for passage of the second wire and a curved closed end configured for bearing against the second wire to provide a radius for the second wire to curve around to reduce stresses on the second wire as it undergoes a relatively abrupt change of direction.
A fence system, comprising a current carrying wire connectable to a source of electric current, a ground wire, and a unitary insulator configured to receive the current carrying wire and the ground wire and to maintain the wires in a spaced apart and electrically isolated orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.