US1134301A - Latch for gates. - Google Patents

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Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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LATCH FOR GATES.

APPLICATION min JUNE s, 1914 W. K. VOORH UNTED STATES WALTER K. VOORHEES AND' FRANK A. ANDERSON, 0E CEDAR FALLS, IQWA.

LATCH FOR GATES.

manson Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application led .T une 5, 1914. Serial No. 843,227.

T0 all 'whom it may concern Be it known that we, WALTER K. VOOR- HEES and FRANK A. ANDERSON, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Cedar Falls, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Latches for Gates, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in latches for gates, and the object of our improvement is to furnish for gates, especially for the flexible swinging typeA having tubular front and rear stiles, a catch adapted to be rocked at an angle to the front stile of a gate to detachably secure same in one position, with means for releasably holding the catch engaged with the stile.

This object we have eected by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved latch as detachably engaged with the front stile of a gate, with parts broken away, and other parts in vertical section. Fig. 2 is an upper plan view of the parts shown in said Fig. 1, with parts shown in horizontal section. Fig. 3 is an under plan view of the same, with the same parts sectioned horizontally as mentioned in Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The numeral 13 denotes a portion of a vertical tubular front stile of a swinging gate placed adjacent and in spaced relation to a gate-post 20.

A bracket-bar 1 is threaded at one end to be screwed into the post 20 for adjustment to and from the adjacent stile 13, and has its other end fiattened at 2 into a disk 3 having projections adapted to form shoulders A and 5 in spaced pairs on opposite sides, so that the arcs of the edge therebetween may serve as runways for parts to be hereinafter mentioned. The part 2 is centrally orifced vertically, so that the arcs 3 are concentric therewith, to receive a vertical pivot-bolt 6 passed through an orifice in a flat body 10 thereabove seated to swing upon the said part 2, and secured by a nut 7. The body 10 has two vertical orifices on opposite sides and located to that side of the body 10 which extends toward said stile relatively to the pivot 6.

The numerals 8 and 9 denote headed pins which are seated in said orifices to have their lower ends depend therethrough and into the runways 3 on either side of the plate 2 so as to be stopped by either shoulder i or 5 according to the necessities of the case as either pin is lifted to clear same to permit the body 10 to be rocked laterally to thereby engage the other pin with one of the shoulders. rl`he lower extremities of said pins are preferably upset a little as shown in Fig. 1, to prevent their withdrawal from the body 10, while still permitting them to be lifted up or down in the runway.

The body 10 has its part which extends toward said stile formed into divergent fork-members 11 adapted to inclose the stile releasably.

lVhen the parts are in the positions shown in said figures the fork members are seated about Opposite sides of the stile, and locked in engagement therewith. rlhis is due to the fact that the depending ends of the pins 8 and 9, which are seated in the Oppositely located runways 3 of the plate 2, engage the like shoulders 5 to prevent lateral swinging of the body 10. 1f it is desired to swing said stile in a certain direction, it is only necessary to lift the pin on the side opposite that to which the gate is to be swung, when the body becomes released to swing that way, due to the locating of said pins between the pivot 6 and said stile. lf the pins are located between said pivot and the post 20, the gate may be swung toward the side in which the pin is disengaged, but this variation comes within the scope of our invention. The lifted pin being then released, remains up riding on the end projection of the part 2 while the stile is being swung back into engagement with the inner walls of the fork 11, to return the fork to its iirst position, when the lifted pin will fall under the action of gravity to be reseated in its runway 3' to lock the catch over the stile.'

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latch comprising a body secured to the post and having a flattened portion provided with spaced stops on opposite side edges, a fork medially pivoted on said iiattened part, and bodies mounted on said fork to depend releasably into engagement with said stops, the members of the fork e1nbracing said stile releasably.

2. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latch comprising a body secured to the post adjustably, extending toward the stile and having opposite side edges provided with curved recesses having abrupt end-walls to serve as stops, a fork medially pivoted to said body to releasably embrace the stile with its members, headed pins mounted on opposite sides of said fork for vertical movements to have their depending ends seated releasably in said recesses.

3. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, ofa latch comprising a body secured to the post and having a flattened end formed with its opposite side edges recessed with concentric arc-shaped walls and having stop-shoulders at the ends of the recesses, a body seated on said flattened portion, both said bodies being orificed in line, a pivot-bolt seated in said alined orifices concentric with said arc shaped recesses, said second mentioned body having divergent forks extending toward and embracing said stile, and having orifices on opposite sides, headed pins seated in said orifices to depend into said recesses and be locked against like shoulders Vwhen so depending, the second-mentioned body adapted to rock laterally to release the stile, when either pin is lifted to clear its engaged shoulder.

4. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latch comprising a body secured to the post and having a `flattened end portion, a plate having divergent fork-members pivoted on said flattened portion to removably embrace said stile, the opposite side Y edges of said flattened portion being recessed to have Wspaced radially-extendingshoulders to serve as stops, said plate having orifices in opposite sides, headed pins movable through said oricesto depend into said recesses and into engagement with the shoulders nearest the stile, said pins being located between said stile and the pivot of said plate.

5. The combination with a gate-postand a gate-stile, of a latch comprising a disks shaped body with a forward projection and having spaced shoulders on opposite side v edges, said body being secured on said post,

a plate pivoted concentrically on said' disk and having divergent forks embracing said stile releasably, orifices in said plate, headed pins seated in said oriiices'to be vertically movable and depend on each side ofthe disk disk, said pins being: adapted to become re' leased from said disk when lifted, and being irremovable from said plate.

6. In combination, a swinging `gate-stile,

5.5. to engage the shoulders on like parts 'of the a forked body pivotally supported to rock its 'Y Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents,

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