US1089018A - Vault-entrance. - Google Patents

Description

T. S. SPIVEY.

VAULT ENTRANCE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 16, 1912.

1 89,018, 7 Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

UNTTED STATES PTENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. SPIVEY, 0F NORWOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK (30., OF NORWOOD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

VAULT-ENTRANCE.

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' Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 16, 1913.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Serial No. 773,835.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS S. Srlvnr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norwood, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Vault-Entrance; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description of the invention, attention being called to the drawing which accompanies this application and forms a part thereof.

This invention relates to entrances of vaults, strong-rooms, money depositories, etc. i

It concerns more particularly the frame whereby the entrance is lined and which frame is so constructed as to render it adaptable for positioning within the entranceopening, also to form a vestibule therein and to permit of its ready connection to the wall of the inclosure which contains said entranceopening. It is also arranged to permit placing of the door which controls passage through the entrance, to provide means for its support and to guide it during manipulation.

The invention consists of the particular construction of such a frame as hereinafter described and claimed and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, shows a horizontal section of such a vestibuled vault-entrance, taken on line 1-1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2, shows a frontview of the entrance with the door opening closed. Fig. 8, shows a vertical central section taken through the entrance-opening and through top and bottom parts of the door frame and as indicated by section line 33, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, parts between top and bottom of the figure being broken out to reduce its height. Fig. l, shows a vertical section arranged in a similar manner but taken on a different plane and so as to pass also through the side of the door frame and as indicated by line 4, shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6, show in perspective views, somewhat enlarged, certain details of construction, these details concerning more particularly manner of connection between the vertical and horizontal parts of the door frame.

In view of the hulkiness of these structures, the construction of the frame has been devised in a manner which does not require completion of the same before it has reached the place where it is to be erected, and which permits ready connection of its several parts, after they have been transported to the place of erection and moved into position.

In the drawing, 7 indicates portions of a wall containing an entrance opening which receives the frame and is lined thereby. Any available metal, preferably steel in some suitable form, may be used in the construction of this frame.

Numeral 8, indicates the side-pieces which form the j ambs of the frame. They are of a depth and height equaling substantially the width and height of the vestibule.

Numerals 9 and 11, indicate respectively the sill and lintel-portions of the frame, they being in form of plates. They are connected to the jambs by means of anglerails 12, the horizontal parts of these rails making connection with the plates and the vertical parts making connection with the jambs. The connection to the plates is by suitable rivets, bolts or screws as shown at 13, in Fig. 5.

The connection to the jambs is by tenons 14 on the jambs received by mortises 15 in the angle-rails. These tenons are formed by cutting in on the ends of the ambs as shown at 16 in Fig. 6, after which the metal between these cuts is bent outwardly as shown in the same figure, in which condition it may be received by the mortise. The result ing tenon is of a length exceeding the depth of the mortise, thus permitting the part which extends beyond the mortise to be clenched on the angle-rails as shown at 17 in Figs. 1 and 4c.

The door to be used is of the sliding type and the arrangement is such that for opening it may be moved into the vestibule, thus avoiding any obstruction of the passage. The door and the jambs are shaped accordingly and form, transversely considered, cylindrical segments. The front edges of sill and lintel plates respectively follow this shape. The door may be in one or in two sections, two being used, as shown at 18--18.

When the door sections are closed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, they form, together with the ambs, a substantially semicylindrical structure. When the door sections are opened they move behind the jambs. They are held in guideways 19-19, which receive upper and lower edges respectively of these sect-ions. The inner sides of these guideways are formed by curved angle rails 2121, one secured to the sill-plate and the other to the lintel plate. The outer sides of these guide-ways are formed by the jambs to the extent of their width and between them fillets 2222 are provided to reduce the space adjacent angle-rails 12 to the width required for the guide-ways.

The door-sections may be supported by suspension at their upper ends or they may be sustained at their lower ends. In this latter case roller-bearings 23 may be used.

To permit an effective junction between the frame and the wall which surrounds it, flanges 24 and 25 are provided on the front and rear upright edges respectively of the jambs. These flanges are obtained by means of angle-irons riveted to these edges. In addition there is a facing .26 around the door-opening on the outside which is of angular profile. Its inner portion is radially arranged with reference to the center of the structure and extending inwardly against the face of the door, covers the front edges of the jambs and flanges 24.- connected to them. Its outer portion is substantially parallel to the wall and by projecting over the same, covers the juncture where frameand wall meet. This facing provides an eifective finish for the entrance and-may alsobe carried across the top as shown at 27'. The material of the wall, especially if concrete, which is presumed, will readily'key in behind these facings and between 'fianges 2 1 and :25, whereby the structure is securely held in place.

It will now be seen that the several parts of this frame, having been fitted to each other'before-hand and provided withholes for screws and rivets in the 'properplaoes, may be readily connected to-each other after moved to the place where the structure is to be erected. The jambs and sill and lintel plates are connected to eachother by means of the angle'rails as explained. Theanglerails are first connected to the jambs." Thereafter the sill and lintel-plates are connected and with their front edges setup close against the inner sides of the jambs' as best shown in Fig. 4, to reinforce'thei-r mortise and tenon-connection. The door sections are'set into the guide-ways provided for them, the facing is attached and finally the structure iswalled in in an appropriate manner.

Having described my invention, I claim as new:

1. In a frame for'a vault-entrance, the combination of thejambs, sill and lintelplates, angle-rails positioned where lower and upper edges of the ja'mbs and the-front edges of the plates mentioned'come together,

the-jambs being spaced and means to connect these angle-rails to the jambs and to the plates and so as to cover and close the joint between them.

2. In 'a' frame for a vault-entrance, the combination of the jambs, angle-rails connected respectively to upper and lower ends of the jambs by a clenched mortise and tenon-joint and sill and lintel-plates set up against'the inner sides of the jambs and connected to the anglerails.

3. In a vault-entrance, the combination of a frame consisting of side-members, sill and lintel plates, angle-rails positioned where lower and upper edges of the side-members and'the front-edges of the plates respectively come together, means to connect these anglerailsto the side-members and to the plates, a door fitted to the opening between the sidemembers and guide-ways provided for the door, the front of the entire structure, in-

cluding the side-members and door presenting-a oylindri'c'alsegmental shape to which the front edges of sill and lintel plates conform likewise.

4. In a vault-entrance, the combination of a frame consisting of side-members, sill and lintelplates, angle-rails whereby lower and upper edges of the side-members and the front: edges of'the plates mentioned are respectively connected to each other with a space between the side-members to form an entrance-opening, a door'for this opening, all these parts being shaped to form cylindrical segments having a common center, angle-rails of similar shape connected to the inner sides of the plates and spaced from theinner side of the side-members to form guiderways' between them for the door, and fillets to complete the guide-ways in the door-opening and'between the side-members.

5. In a vault-entrance, the combination of a frame adapted to be walled in and consisting of segmental side-members and of sill and lintelpl'ates having segmental front edges connected respectively to the sidememberswith a space between these latter to form'a door-opening,a segmental door forthisopening, guide-ways for the door and'a profile facing having an inner, radially arranged portion which covers the frontedges ofthe side-members and extends also outwardly-to cover the juncture of these members with the wall which surrounds the frame.

6. p In a vault-'entrance, the combination of bers and a facing connected to the Wallflanges at, the front edges of the side-members to cover these flanges and extending inwardly beyond the point of its connection so In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS S. SPIVEY.

as to cover also said edges, it extending also Witnesses: outwardly so as to project over the Wall ad- C. SPENGEL, jacent said flanges. T. Ln BEAU.

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