US110957A - Improvement in gate-latches - Google Patents

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anathema time ar Letters Patent No. 110,957, dated January 17, 1871 v IMPROVEMENT IN 'GATE-.-LATCHE$- R The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN COLE, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable improvement in Gate- Latches; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and'exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a front elevation, and p Figure? is a side .elcration of the latch,

This invention consists in the arrangement of a suspended swinging latch, pivoted at its upper end in a 7 socket attached to the gate-and provided at its lower end with a triangular foot projectinghorizontally from the latch, with a'catch madefiist to the gate-post and.

operating, as the gateficloses, to throw the latch to one side until the gat' latch swings back in the gate, the catchzthn'p serving the additional purnose of a stop 'to the gate.

strikes the catch, when the, nt of the catch and fastens i In the drawing Ais the'gate;

B, the post to which the gate is hung;

B, the post to which the gate is fastened by the latch;

G, the catch onxthe post B;

D, the latch-bar;

E, the socket in which thelateh is pivoted; and F, the triangular foot on the lower end of the latchhar.

I claim as my invention l The catch 0, serving also as a stop tothe gate, the latch-bar D, provided with the triangular foot F and depending vertically from the gate, and the socket E, all constructed and o crating as specified.

In testimony that; claim the above I have hereiunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses. I

- CALVIN COLE.

Witnesses: l

Rom. B. Extm, 'W. 'F. Elms;-

GILMOR, OF SAME

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