US1090969A - Gate-latch. - Google Patents

Description

T. J. BROWNING.

GATE LATCH.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5.

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GATE-LATCH.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

Application filed November 5, 1913. Serial No. 799,372.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, THoMes J. BROWNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waynesboro, in the county of Wayne and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Gate-Latch, of which the followingis a specification.

The present invention appertains to a latchfor' gates, and doors, and contemplates the provision of'a novel and improved device of. that character. Y

Another object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the keeperlring means of. a padlock.

and latch bar maybe locked together by view which will appearas the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and: arrangement of parts and in the details of constructionhereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be'made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in its preferred embodiment inthe accompanying drawing, wherein g i Figure 1 is a perspective view of the latch mechanism applied-to a gate and post. Fig.

taken above the latch mechanism. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on kthe'line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing, the numeral designates a' gate, although the same may be taken as typical, to represent a door or other'movable structures,"and the numeral 2 designates the fence ,ost adjoining the free endof the gate, whic may also be taken as typical.

In carrying out the present invention, there is provided a keeper ring 3, which is mounted within the arms o a U-shaped carrier or holder 4, which carrier is preferably bent from a bar or strip-of metal. One end portion 5 of the carrier 4 is straight, and is adapted to be secured to that "side of the post '2 adjoining the free endof the gate 1,while the other end portion 6 of the carrier 4 is bent angularly, to be secured to the adjoining side of the post whereby the intermediate portion or body of the carrier 4 will be effectively disposed for cotiperatiomwith the free end of the gate. Thekeeper ring 3 is disposed between the arms of the carrier 4 and intermediate of the bend. of the carr er, and the endportions 5-6, a rivet or pm being secured through the arms of the carrier to support the'keeper ring for free movements about the rivet or pin. Particular attention is directed to the fact that the rivet 7 is disposed relatively close to the bend of the carrier, and to the lower edges of the carrier arms, in. order that the keeper ring Wlll. operate to carry out certain desired results, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

A latch bar 8 is secured to the gate 1, and

is preferably rigid with the gate, with its With the foregoing and other objects me free and projecting or protruding for engagement with the keeper ring 3 below the carrier 4, the latch bar 8 having an outstanding ear or lobe 9, so arrangedas to project along the lower portion of the keeper ring when the latch bar is engaged by the said ring, and the said ear being apertured, whereby a padlock may bev engaged to the said ear and lower portion of the keeper ring, as seen in Fig. 3. The latch bar 8 is so arranged, as to swing snugly under the carrier 4 whereby when the gate is closed, the free end of the latch barengaging the keeper ring, will throw the keeper ring upwardly, and when the free end of the latch bar strikes the post 2, the keeper ring will drop, to lock between the latch bar, and the bend of the carrier 4. Thus, the gate will be effectively locked, and it will not be possible to force the keeper ring 3 upwardly, by pressure against the gate, the rivet 7 besodisposed as not to permit the keeper ring to be forced upwardly by the outward movement of the gate. The rivet 7, however, permits the keeper ring to readily swing upward when the gate is closed. 'Io lock the gate, the shackle of the padlock 10 may be readily engaged through the apertured ear 9 and the lower portion of the keeper ring 3, which will prevent the keeper ringfrom being disengaged from the latch bar until the lock is removed.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawing, the advantages and'capabiliti'es of the present device will be obvious tothose versed in the art, and need not be commented upon at length, it being obvious that the objects aimed at have been carried out in a satisfactory manner.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: In combination with parts movable to and from each other, a carrier attached to one 5 part, a keeper ring loosely supported by the carrier, and a latch bar attached. to the other part to move snugly "under the carrier'for the engagement of the keeper ring, the latch bar having an apertured ear so arranged as 10 to project along the lower portion of the keeper ring when the latch bar is engaged by the keeper-ring, said apertured ear and keeper ring being adapted to be engaged by a padlock.

In-testimOny that I claim the foregoing 15 as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

T. J. BROWNING; Witnesses:

TROY NoRswoRTHY, C. G. NOBSWORTHY.

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