Electrified fence gate
OwnerBud Nicholinventor
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Abstract
An electrified fence gate including a tensioned flexible support wire extending horizontally across a fence gate opening, at a height greater than that of vehicles normally intended to pass through the opening, a series of spaced gate wires connected at their upper ends to the support wire and depending closely adjacent but not engaging the road surface, and a fence charger operable to charge the wires with a shocking electric charge. Vehicles, insulated from the ground by their rubber tires, may thus pass freely through the gate without stopping, merely deflecting the hanging wires, but any livestock attempting to pass through, being grounded, will receive an electric shock whenever they touch any of the hanging gate wires, and hence be driven away from the gate.
Claims2
An electrified fence gate comprising:
- a. a single flexible electrically conductive support wire extending generally horizontally and spanning a gate opening of a fence above ground level, said support wire being secured at its ends to elements of said fence but being otherwise unsupported,
- b. a series of flexible, electrically conductive gate wires each connected at its upper end to said support wire by means operable to permit free universal pivotal movement of the former relative to the latter, and additionally operable to permit swivelling of said gate wire about its own axis relative to said support wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.