US1089707A - Hinge. - Google Patents

Description

A. HOVORKA.

v HINGE.

' 1,089,707,. Patented Mar. 10, 19H

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ANTON HOVORKA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 16, 1913.

l of which is indicated at 12 and the lid at 13. A traenient only of these parts is shown. To the outer face of the wall 11/, at the top thereof, is secured a strip Lil between which strip and the wall the shanks are placed and held. The bends S engage the bottom ot the strip, and the bent portion 7 enes the top of said strip, which latter edge tlush with the top edge of the wall .12. and the eye 6 stands up from said edge of the strip. To the top of the lid '13 is secured a strip 115 which comes tlush with the rear edge ot the lid, and betwctai these parts the shank S of the other hinn'e member held, the book 10 projecting a sutlieient distance so thatit may extend through the eye 0. The bend it engages the trout edge of the '.atented lttar. 1t 1914-. Serial No. 773,973.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, Aaron llovoniu, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicage, in the county of look and State ol 5 Illinois, have ll'lVOlllGtl certain new and useilul llu'iprovetmnts in l linges, oil whieh the 't'ollowinn' is a speeitieatimi.

The hinge which. is the subject matter ot? the present application for patent is designed more particularly for crates, boxes and the like.

it is the objeet at. the invention to provide a strong and durable hinge, the same being made entirely at 'u'ire, so that it may be easily and cheaply manu'taetured, and to this end the invention consists in a novel combination and arrangement ot. parts to be hereinafter described and claimed. reterence strip. being had to the aeetimpanying drawing, The hinge herein deseribed simple, forming a part of this speoitieation. strong and durable, and can be readily apin the drawing); l igures 1 and 2 are per plied. to addition to its use in eonneetion spective views showing the two hinge parts with a lid, it may be used for etmneoting the separated. Fin. 3 a cross Section showing walls olf folding crates and boxes. the hinge applied to a be): or crate. l: claim: Ilieterring specifically to the drawing one a hinge comprising a wire member bent;

intermediate its ends and brought together to :torm parallel shanks, the wire at the bend being spread to form an eye, and the shanks having lateral bends at one end to oti'set; the

member ot the hinge eonsists ot a piece of wire whieh is bent intermedmte its ends to form two parallel shanks which are spread H at the bend to form an eye (3. .Adjacent to the eye the shanks have a lateral bend T eye therel'rom and to form av shoulder, said from which the eye extends laterally, so that eye extending laterally trom the shoulder, it is otlsot to one side oil the shanks. The and a second wire member having a hook other ends of the sl'ianks hare lateral bends which engages the eye.

8. The other hinge member is composed 0t .itn testimony whereof I attix my signature a wire shank t) bent at one end into the in presence of two witnesses an'rt a novon'm.

term of a hook it) to engage the eye (3, and having at the other end a lateral bend 11.

Big. 3 shows two hinge members assem- I bled in )lttCL on a box or crate the'rear Wall.

\Vitnesses F1. J. Leanna, H. G. BAJlClIELOR.

Gomez of am patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commlmioner of Patentn, Washington, D. C.

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