Electric fence clip

#The present invention relates to improvements in and/or relating to clips for attachment to an upstanding fence standard to enable the location of a wire in relation to the post but in a free sliding manner.

#Many forms of electric or other types of fencing are known where upstanding circular sectioned rods are utilised to which a horizontal wire or the equivalent is to be attached and preferably in a slidable relationship. It is to such application that the present invention is primarily directed.

#Accordingly in one aspect the present invention consists in a unitary fence clip formed from a resilient wire having a fence standard or post engaging coil region and two arms extending therefrom, one of said arms from one end of the coil region including at least a partly formed loop and the other of said arms from the other end of the coil including a member engageable in said at least partly formed loop, said means engageable in said partly formed loop defining when so engaged a closed zone between said arms and said coil through a fence wire or the like can be located.

#One preferred form of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which

#FIG. 1 is a plan view of a fence clip in a preferred form shown in an open condition which will allow the easy sliding of the central coil down onto a fence rod, e.g. fibreglass rod (not shown),

#FIG. 2 is the opposite side view of the clip of FIG. 1,

#In the preferred form of the present invention a length of wire of appropriate resilience is formed into the configuration as shown. It includes a central coil region 1 and two arms 2 and 3 respectively. Arm 3 includes at the end thereof a loop, preferably a complete loop or series of loops 4, while the other includes means 5 (best seen in FIG. 5) which is engageable in the manner shown in FIG. 4 within the loop 4.

#In use therefore the clip in a condition as shown in FIG. 1 would have a fence rod 6 slid through the central coil region 1 and this can be made easier by splaying the arms further apart than shown.

#A wire 7 can then be located between the arms 2 and 3 since the arms 2 and 3 are at opposite ends of the central coil region 1 and then the means 5 and 4 inter-engaged to hold the wire 7 in a sliding inter-relationship with the post 6.