Talk:Chain link fencing
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I would've used international units, but this country is evil and lives in the delusion of its own importance and pretends they don't exist. The Lightning Stalker 08:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I disagree. Fences are defined, spec'd, and sold in English Units in the United States. The descriptions are appropriate to American applications of fences and seperate discussion (with appropriate units) under a seperate heading should be added for metric countries. Skabat169 18:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Right. So what are you disagreeing with? The Lightning Stalker 21:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Guess I'm not really disagreeing then at all. I guess I am asking for someone in Europe to add some commentary on dimensions and such of these fences in Europe. Skabat169 14:15, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
The story of Chain Link Fence begins at the Groesbeck Spring Bed Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1800's. Gaetano Mafera, an engineer, came to America from Sicily in 1885. He found a position at the Spring Bed Manufacturing Company which had many Italian speaking employees. He did well and was offered the chance to open a branch in Boston, Massachusetts. He was to cover all expenses from the stipend per bed spring manufactured. In 1892 Groesbeck sold the Boston plant to Gaetano for what monies he was owed.
On May 2, 1892 Gaetano, who now went by Guy, named his company the American Spring Bed Manufacturing Company. January 5, 1895 he recieved patent 574,742 for an inovative spring bed frame and on April 27, 1905 patent 795,529 for wire fabric used to support the mattress.
In 1912 a Mr. Snow of Cambridge, Massachusetts was asked by the Cambridge Schools to build a fence unlike any he had seen, but while walking back to his shop in Boston he passed an American Spring Bed on display in a furniture shop. Mr. Snow contacted Mr. Mafera and in cooperation, using a heavier guage wire, built a chain link fence for the Cambridge Schools.
The fencing system was incorporated into the products of the American Spring Bed Manufacturing Company and eventually became so viable that the company changed it's name to the American Chain Link Fence Company in the early 1920's. Though the American Chain Link Fence Company has been merged with other chain link fence manufacturers, there are still Mafera's in the Fence business.
Mafic 17:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cyclone fence?
Is Cyclone fence a synonym for chain link fence? If so, we should add a redirect. (And is it a genericized trademark?) -- Coneslayer 22:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC) In my experience "Cyclone" fence is used interchangeably with "chain link" fence a 2min video on "how cyclone fence is made" can be viewed on Google video.
I re-read the entry and it clearly indicated the measuring units are English Units used in the United States and England. If one finds this unsuitable for it's seeming prejudice for a measuring system used for at least three centuries as opposed to an unspecified "International Unit" (metric?), then one could do some research on conversion tables, or contact a producer/seller in a country using "International Units" and write the article using those units. That would give all readers world-wide the benefit of the historical information of the fence which originated in the United States designed to English Units of measure. But, what do I Know? "Pop"
