US1020488A

US1020488A - Gate.

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Publication number: US1020488A
Application number: US63719411A
Authority: US
Inventors: George J Friend
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-07-06
Filing date: 1911-07-06
Publication date: 1912-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1929-03-19

Description

G. J. FRIEND.

GATE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY. 1911.

Patented Mal. 19, 1912.

UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEErcE.

GEORGE J'. FRIEND, OF KINGSLEY, OREGON.

GATE.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1, GEORGE J. FRIEND, citizen of the United States, residing at Kingsley, in the county of W'asco and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to farm gates, and has for its object to provide such a gate of simple and durable structure which may be easily and readily moved to open position and which will automatically move to closed position.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a gate which when in closed position is securely held against lateral movement with relation to the gate posts and which cannot be lifted from its bearings or supports by stock.

A further object of the invention is to provide, in a gate structure, a frame of peculiar arrangement the parts of which are so assembled as to mutually contribute to brace the gate structure, whereby a light structure may be effected and at the same time the entire gate may be constructed from metal.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the gate; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same cut on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters.

The gate to be described is used in combination with a supporting post 1, a latch post 2 and a guide post 3. The posts 1 and 2 are arranged at the opposite sides of a roadway in the usual manner, while the post 3 is located at the side of the road beyond the supporting post 1. The said posts 1, 2 and 8 are preferably in alinement with each other transversely of the roadway, or approximately so.

The frame of the gate is preferably formed from sections of iron pipe connected together by joints commonly used in conjunction with such pipe. The frame consists of a top rail 4 which is made up of two sections pitched at a slight angle with relation to each other. Pipe sections 5 and 6 depend from the top rail 4 and constitute Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 6, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 637,194.

the inner and outer edges respectively of the gate. The said sections 5 and 6 are connected together by a bottom section 7, and the upper portions of the sections 5 and 6 are connected together by a section 8 which is spaced from one ofthe sections of the top rail 4. The intermediate parts of the sections 7 and 8 are connected together by vertical sections 9. This constitutes the frame of the gate proper, and the openings between the

sections

7 and 8, 5, 9 and 6 are closed by a metallic fabric 10 of any desired size of mesh.

A roller 11 is journaled upon the post 1 at the upper portion thereof and lies between the top rail 4 and the upper section 8 of the gate structure. A bracket 12 is attached at its upper end to the side of the post 1 and at its lower end to the shaft or support of the roller 11 and serves as means for preventing the top rail 4 from being dislodged from its position upon the upper portion of the periphery of the said roller. A guide 13 is fixed to the lower portion of the post 1 and the bottom section 7 is adapted to slide between the said guide and the side of the said post. Retaining cleats 14 are fixed to the latch post 2 and are adapted to receive the frame section G when the gate is in closed position and the free end portion thereof is against the side of the post 2. A latch 15 of any desired form is mounted upon the post 2 and is adapted to engage the frame section 6, whereby the gate is held in closed position.

A standard section 16 is mounted upon the intermediate portion of the top rail 4 and a truss member 17 is trained over the upper end of the standard section 16 and is connected at its opposite ends with the opposite end portions of the top rail 4, and is so tensioned as to hold the sections of the top rail in proper relation to each other. A brace section 18 is connected at its inner end with the lower portion of the section 5 and at its outer end is connected with the outer end of the top rail 4. The brace section 18 is provided with a portion 19 which is parallel with the outer end portion of the top rail 4. A roller 20 isV journaled upon the post 3 and is adapted to pass between the top rail 4 and the portion 19 of the brace 18, but the said roller is of such diameter that when it is in contact with the top rail 4 it barely escapes the portion 19 of the brace 18 and vice versa. A bracket 21 is fixed at one end to the post 3 and extends down over the top rail 4 and is connected at its lower end with the shaft or support of the pulley 21.

The said bracket serves as means for pre-v rable gate structure is effected and that it is impossible for the stock to lift the gate oI of its supporting rollers 11 and 20, nor can the stock force the gate laterally away from the supporting post 1 or the post 3 and the latch post 2 when the gate is in closed position. At the same time an operator may readily manipulate the latch 15, whereby the gate may be slid longitudinally across the supporting post l to open position and when it is desired to permit the gate to close the operator simply releases the same, whereby the section of the top rail 4 above the gate section 8, by reason of its slight angular disposition to the other section of the said top rail, will move by gravity along the periphery of the roller 11, whereby the gate will gravitate to its closed position. When the gate is in closed position the portion 19 of the brace 18 will be under the periphery of the roller 20 and in contact with the same, and thus the weight of the gate structure will be supported at its upper and lower portions adjacent the post 1, and the gate structure will not have a tendency to sag down over the roller 11 which it would have if the brace section 18 together with its portion 19 was not employed in conjunction with the roller 20. As the gate is moved to open position and the center of gravity of the gate is shifted with relation to the roller 11, the preponderance of the weight is positioned between the rollers 11 and 2O and consequently the outer portion of the top rail 4 will descend against the periphery of the roller 20 and the entire gate structure is supported in open position by the rollers 11 and 2O being in contact with the top rail 4.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In combination with a supporting and a guiding post, each having a j ournaled roller thereon, a gate comprising a top rail having end portions in anticlinal relation, a gate frame depending from one of said end portions, a brace connected at one end with the lower portion of the gate frame and at its other end with the outer end of the other end portion of the top rail and having an outer portion extending approximately parallel with the adjacent end portion of the top rail, the top rail resting upon the rollers and the inner end of the gate located between the rollers, a standard mounted upon the top rail, over the inner end of the gate, and a truss member connected at its ends with the ends of the top rail and passing over the Lipper end of the standard.

In testimony whereof, I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. FRIEND. [L. s] Witnesses:

O'rro BUSKUHL, J. I-I. HURD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.