Fence wire location marker

A location indictor or marker for substantially horizontally extending fence wires includes:

• (a) a generally planar tab of relatively thin, relatively thin, relatively stiff but resilient and flexible material, the tab being provided with:
• (1) a wire-receiving opening through a central portion thereof, the opening having a a minimum transverse dimension not less than the diameter of a wire to be marked but approximating that diameter, and
• (2) a slit open from the wire-receiving opening through to the outer periphery of the tab, and operable upon flexing of the tab to be widened sufficiently to provide passage for the wire to be marked into the opening, the composition of the tab being such that when released from flexing the edges of the slit will return to a position so as to retain the wire to be marked within the tab opening until the tab is manually flexed so as to permit the wire to pass out through the slit;
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• (b) flexible, easily seen, elongate, cloth-like streamer means attached to the tab;
• whereby when the diameter of the wire-receiving opening of the tab equals the diameter of the wire, the tab grasps the wire and effectively blocks any tendency of the marker to be moved along the wire by wind;
• and when the diameter of the wire-receiving opening of the tab is slightly greater than the diameter of the wire, the streamer means, when hit by wind, causes the tab to tilt and pinch the wire between upper and lower edges of the wire-receiving opening and effectively blocks any tendency of the marker to be moved along the wire by the wind between the opening and outer periphery of the tab.