When was the chain link fence invented?

Chain Link Fence is widely used in interior decoration, raising chicken, ducks, geese, rabbits and zoo fence, Mechanical equipment, protective nets, machinery and equipment of the transmission grid. For road, railway, highway fence facilities. Sport venues fence, the road green belt protection. The screen in the production of a box-shaped container, filled with rocks and other cage, become gabion. Also used to protect and support the seawall, hillsides, road and bridge, reservoirs and other civil engineering. Flood control and flood of good material, It can be used for the manufacture of handicrafts. Warehouse, tool room refrigeration, strengthening protection, marine fishing fence and construction sites, rivers, slope fixed soil(rock), residential security, etc. There are varies of chain link fences, such as electro galvanized chain link fence and hot dipped chain link fence.

Since it is used widely, do you know when it invented?

The process was developed by Charles Barnard in 1844 based on cloth weaving machine(up untill that time Norwich had a long history of cloth manufacture). Anchor Fence(established in 1898) bought the rights to the machine and was the first American company to manufacture chain link fencing in the United States.