[Trade Journal]
Publication: Electrical Review
New York, NY, United States
vol. 47, no. 12, p. 444, col. 1
Electrical Patents
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William R. Twiggs, Sandusky, Ohio, is the inventor of an insulator, on which he has recently obtained a United States patent (798,235, August 29, 1905). The object of the invention is to improve the construction of such devices by rendering them capable of holding the line-wire securely without the use of the tie-wires or similar fastening devices. The invention
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resides in an insulator formed with a central depression from which lead off in opposite directions a plurality of downwardly inclined slots which tapered toward their outer ends and are adapted to receive the line-wire, the wire being held in the slots by balls inserted through the central depression and engaging the line-wire.
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