US1124550A - Gate-hanger. - Google Patents

Description

J. STULLER, SR.

GATE HANGER.

APPLIGATIQN FILED JUNE 21, 191s.

1,124,550. Patented .111112. 1915.

TMLV MORRIS PETE-ies C0 PHOTO'LITHQ. WASHVNGION Dv c JOSHUA STULLER, SR., 0F CASCO TOWNSHIP, ALLEGAN COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

GATE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

Application led .Tune 21, 1913. Serial No. 775,159,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOSHUA STULLER, Sr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Casco township, in the county of Allegan and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Gate-Hanger; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to gates and the like, and particularly to a new and useful gate hanger therefor.

An object of the invention is the provision of an improved hanger which will not only permit the gate to slide backwardly and forwardly, but will allow the same to swing in either direction.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an improved hanger having means to assist in preventing sagging of the gate, when opening the same, regardless of whether the gate is swung open or slid backwardly.

In practical fields, it may be found necessary to subject the details of construction to alterations, to which the patentee is entitled, provided the alterations fall within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings z-Figure 1 is a View in side elevation showing the application of a gate hanger to a farm gate, showing the same slid backwardly in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the gate swung open. F ig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the hanger.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates the usual form of gate, while 2 denotes the latch post, while 3 designates the gate supporting posts, which are connected by the transverse bars 5 and 6.

The hanger 7 is in the form of an elongated loop, and extending from its upper and lower portion are the lugs 8, which are threaded to receive the nuts 9, that is, sub sequently to passing through the bars 5 and 6, there being washers 10 between the hanger and the said bars. The bar 11 of the gate 1 passes through the hanger, and engages an anti-frictional roller 12, which is journaled upon a pin 13 of the hanger.

Projecting laterally of the sides 0f the hanger are ears 14, which engage opposite sides of the bar 11 0f the gate 1, not only for offering slight resistance when opening the gate, that is, by sliding the same rearwardly, but constitute means for frictionally engaging the bar 11, sufiiciently to assist in supporting the weight of the gate when opening the same.

Applicant is aware that broadly speaking gates designed to be opened by swinging in either direction, and by sliding have been heretofore produced, but it must be borne in mind that applicant is not claiming the broad or generic idea, but is claiming a specific practical, essential and desirable construction of gate hanger casting, so pivoted between two spaced bars connecting substantially midway between two vertical supports and provided with a roller, and particularly having frictionally engaging sides and arms to contact with the opposite sides of the gate, the gate being allowed to swing open in either direction, or slide entirely open, as specifically defined in the appended claim.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is A closure structure comprising a closure member, a pair of vertical supports, one upon each side of the closure member, a pair of spaced bars connecting said supports, one above and one below one of the interior palings of the closure member, said spaced bars extending transversely, one adjacent the under edge of the upper paling of the closure member, the other adjacent the upper edge of the paling below the paling between said bars, a hanger casting pivoted between said spaced bars substantially midway between said supports and provided with direct opposite sides engaging frictionally and flat against opposite sides of the paling between the bars, the opposite sides of said hanger casting having direct opposite yieldable arms extending in a direction parallel with the closure member and engaging frictionally and flat against the opposite sides of the paling between saidv bars, said arms offering additional friction, which is designed to be overcome when sliding the closure member open, a roller bearing journaled in said hanger casting on which the paling between said bars engage, said closure member designed to be slid entirely open, said vertical support being so spaced apart relative to each other and relative to the hanger, as topermit the closure member to swing open in either direction.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscrlbing Witnesses.

JOSHUA STULLER, SR.

Witnesses:

EARNEST WELLINGTON, ZELDA M. PICKE'IT.

Copies o! this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Washington. D. C.

Commissioner of Patents.

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