US1112081A - Gate. - Google Patents

Description

J. H. MOSS.

GATE.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 29,1913.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

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UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. MOSS, 0F ANeoLA, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF 'ro CHARLES s. wHrn WQR'IH AND ONE-HALF T0 CHARLES c. I BOGLE,BOTH or CEDAR FALLS, IOWA.

GATE.

This invention relates to improvements in gates, more particularly to the class of farm gates wherein provisionis made for elevating the gate to open the same, and has for one of its objects to simplify and iniprove the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

vide a gate constructed wholly of metal and principally of gas or steam piping and so coupled and balanced that the gate will automatically tilt upwardly when released, and which may be lowered into closedposition by the exercise of a relatively small amount of force.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim,'and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the'improved gate in closed position; Fig. 2 is a plain view of the same. A Fig. 3 is a section A on the line 33 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4c is an enlarged perspective view of one of the coupling members between the horizontal and 1 vertical members of the gate.

Correspondingand like parts are referred to in the following description and indi cated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved gate may be constructed of any required size to fit within gateway openings located any distance apart, but is designed more particularly for the larger class of farm gates, and for the purpose of illustration is shown thus applied.

The hinge post is represented conventionally at 10 and the latch post at 11, the posts having the usual fence material 12 connected thereto, The hinge post is provided with the lower hinge members 13 of the usual construction, while the latch post Another object of the invention isto pro-j Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. Sept. 29, 1914;. Application filed May 29,

1913.- Serial No; 770,708.

his provided with a latch housingld as shown; 1 The gate is, formed with the upper rail member 15 and the lower rail member 16 of the rail a clip a similar clip device 26 is connected by a set screw 27 i to the lower rail member 16 at its hinge end. Embracing the latch end of the rail member 15 is another clip member 28 secured in position by a set screw 29, while a similar clip member 30 is secured to the latch end of the rail member 16 by a set screw 31. The clip devices 2 126-2830 are precisely alike and one of the clips is shown in detail in Fig. 4. The clips are provided with. depending ears represented conventionally'. at 32 and embraces the opposite sides of the end members 33-34 of thegate. The endme'mbers of the gate are preferably in the form of flat bars as shown and are The centers of the pivots 35 are disposed in the pivot 21 of the central stay 23, while the pivots 35 of the lower portion of the gate are in longitudinal alinement with the pivot 22. The end member 33 is provided with the receiving hinge members 3637 which are rigidly coupled to the member 33 as shown at 3839 and engage over the pintles of the hinge members 13. The end members 3334 are coupled at suitable in tervals by strand wires 10 which may be spaced apart to any required extent, and are generally arranged with the wires nearest the ground spaced at shorter intervals than those at the upperportion of the gate to the like.

pivoted at 35 between the ears of the clips.

preferably constructed of tubing such as v device 24 is secured by a set screw 25, while i alinement longitudinally of the gate with H exclude smaller animals and chickens and Connected to the terminal member 34 of i the gate is a housing or guideway 41 through which a bolt 42 is mounted to slide, the bolt having an inclined outer end adapted to engage in the latch housing 14 when the gate is depressed and provided with a spring 43 to hold the latch in its outer position or. in engagement normally with the housing 14- when the gate is in its lower position.

The lower rail member 16 is provided with a plurality of apertures 44 spaced apart to receive a bolt 45. Engaging the bolt 45 is a U-shaped rod including sides bearing against opposite sides of the gate 46-47; Mounted to swing uponthe bolt 35 which is employed to secure the'clip 24 to the member 33 are curved rods 48-49 to the inner end of which springs 5051 are. coupled at their upper ends, while the lower ends of the springs are coupled respectively to theside portions 4647v of the ll-shaped rod. By this means the springs 51 exert a pulling force upon the gate and operateto elevate the same in position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 when the latch member 42 is released from the housing 14. -By this arrangement thesprings' are located upon opposite sides of the gate and exert a pulling strain upon the bolt. 45 equallyfrom both sides of the gate structure. Byfadjusting the bolt 45 in the apertures 44 the tension of the spring may be increased or decreased as required, or the spring tightened in event of its becoming weakened by use. It will thus be noted that the pivot 35 which engages the clip 32 performs the two-fold function as pivot to unite the members 153238 and as a holding device for the connecting memj bers 3849. The various pivots 21-22-35 being maintained constantly at equal distances apart, the gate is not cramped when.

, elevated as the rails 1516 retain their parallel relation, while the end members' 3334 and the central stay member 23 like- Copies of this patent may be obtained for wise retain their constant parallel relation as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The strand wires 40 are passed around the members 3834 and the terminal twisted around the body of the wire, so that when the gate is elevated the wires will freely bend at their unctures with the end members 33-34, and thus prevent cramping the parts. The mem bers 2426-28-30 and the members 17-48 are formed respectively from metal, preferably malleable iron, while the end members 3334 are formed from metal bars and the members 161723 are constructed from piping, such as sufficiently enlarged gas or steam piping.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, is strong and durable and of few parts, and is not liable to get out of order while in use.

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

A gate including a frame formed of upper and lower longitudinal members and end members, clips engaging said longitudinal members and including spaced side portions bearing upon opposite sides of said end members, pivot devices extending through the sides of said clips and likewise through the portions of the end members and b aced thereby, connecting members swinging upon the upper pivot at the hinge end of the gate and at opposite sides of the same, a spring coupled to each of said connecting members, a stop carried by the lower longitudinal member of said gate, and a rod bent into U-shape and engaging at its bend with a stop and. coupled at its terminals respectively to said springs.

It testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. MOSS. [1,. s.] .VltllQSSQS HARRY G. GOODRICH, Anrnonso G. VVoon.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

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