Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener. (open access)

Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History