US 4,266,757 AGranted

Corner fence post clip

OwnerRobert E. Kirkwoodinventor

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Abstract

A device for attachment to a tubular fence post so as to fasten horizontal fence rails or a fence panel to the fence post. Two of these devices may be fastened to a common corner fence post so as to each fasten a set of rails or panels to the common fence post at any desired angle as seen from above. The device is in the form of a channel bent at its upper end to a clip that fits over the top and into the interior of a vertical tubular fence post. Holes in the channel accommodate wire ties to fasten the channel about the fence post. Open clips are externally welded at spaced intervals to the channel and are of a size to accommodate the bent ends of horizontal fence rails which are detachably mounted to the channel clips. Since the channel may be rotated about the vertical axis of the fence post, the horizontal fence rails attached to one such channel may extend at any desired angle to a second set of horizontal rails similarly fastened to a second channel that is similarly fastened to the same fence post by the same wire ties that are employed to fasten the first channel to the post.

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Dependent claims

A detachable attachment to a vertical fence post to which a horizontal fence member may be detachably mounted comprising

an open channel bar, a first end of which is formed with a shaped section for fastening to the top of a fence post, such that the bar will extend in a vertical direction downwards along said post with the channel facing the post in the fastened position, and at least one fastening means located on said bar to which an end of a horizontal fence member may be detachably attached,
said fastening means of a shape and located on said bar so that a horizontal fence member when attached by said fastening means will extend in a first horizontal direction from said bar,
in which the said first end of the bar is formed with a hook-shaped section in the form of a detent of a shape to detachably latch about the top and into the interior chamber of a hollow fence post or into the interior of a fence post formed with a hollow interior chamber that is open to the top of said fence post, so as to suspend the bar from the top of said post when said detent is latched about the said post top,
said detent located to extend from the bar in a second horizontal direction opposed to the first horizontal direction that a said attached horizontal fence member extends.

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