Cassius Alley applied for new insulator patent

A NEW DEVICE

Invented by Cassius Alley a Former

Richmond Man Now at Anderaon.

The Anderson Bulletin of last even­ing contained the following.

Cash Alley, the genius who evolved the barbed wire telephone, has pro­duced another invention which prom­ises to make his fortune. It is an insulator for telegraph and telephone lines superior to anything on the mar­ket. Mr. Alley has applied for a pat­ent.

The insulator is an improvement over the old style in the saving of glass, economy of weight, avoidance of pegs upon which the old style in­sulator is tied, and the ease with which it can be put in position.

The insulator complete is a round glass spool in two parts, but mortis­ed, and then leaving a hole through the center for the circuit and to tie the wires. It is inserted into the arm of the pole instead of on a pole at the top, and thereby will save a vast amount of money to large com­panies, as the arms and pegs of tele­phone and telegraph lines soon rot and necessitate new ones.

Mr. Alley's patent is so constructed that moisture cannot remain around the insulator, thereby creating a de­cay in the arm, as the tie wire will lead the water away from the center and the sides of the insulator are so grooved as to gravitate the water to the tie wire.