Giuseppe Albanese Bail Wire Patent

The G. S. A. Line Wire Holder

"Simple and cheap" are the qualities aimed at in this new device.

Fig. 1. — Telegraph or Telephone Wire. Fig. 2. — Light and Railway Feeder Wire

Keeping the same insulators as are now in use both for telegraph and electric light and power transmission, this invention consists of a neck-band sprung into an annular groove of the insulator, a U-shaped lever pivoted to the neck-band and provided with eyes and a fastening bail or link that is pivoted to the eyes and provided with a bent or hook shaped portion for engaging the line wire. The bent portion presses the wire, when the lever is swung in a downward direction, into the annular groove of the insulator, so that the rounded end of the bail forms a continuation of the neck-band, in which position the line wire is firmly locked to the insulator. The wire members of the fastening device can thus be readily opened or closed so as to permit the insertion or removal of the line wire to or from the hook-shaped bail and the attaching and detaching of the same to the insulator, thus facilitating by a great deal the stringing or repairing of telegraph and electric light and power lines.

The practical lineman needs this device which was invented and patented by G. Sacco Albanese, formerly of Orange, N. J., now of Lynn, Mass.