US1163769A - Hinge-support. - Google Patents

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B. C. POTTS.

HINGE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED APR.24. I914 1,163,769. Patented Dec.14,1915.

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UNTTEED TATE PATENT @FFTQE BENJAMIN C. POTTS, OF MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH H. COATES, OE BERWYN, PENNSYLVANIA.

HINGE-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915 Application filed April 24:, 1914. Serial No. 834,042.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that l, BENJAMIN G. Form, a citizen of the United States, residing at Media, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Hinge-Support, of which. the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hinge supports.

An object of the invention is to provide simple and etlicient means whereby a screen door or other closure may be readily hung, taken down, for example at the end of the season, and re-hung in its original position without the employment of a special hinge and without the necessity of removing the screws or other supporting means.

My invention comprises an improved form of screw, nail or similar securing element, a key or looking member cooperating therewith and other details of construction.

Referring to the drawings, which illustrate merely by way of example a preferred form of my invention for use with a screen door, Figure 1 is a plan view showing portions of door and jamb and a standard hinge secured to the jamb by my improved securing means. Fig. 2 is a section on 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of my im-- proved screw. Fig. l is a perspective View of the key cooperating with the slotted securing elements. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a modified form of securing element.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The spring hinge, 8, shown in Fig. l is of the usual type and is provided with screwreceiving openings 9. Securing elements or posts 10, suitably slotted as shown at 11 to receive the tapered key 12, are adapted to be inserted in j amb 13 at points registering with the upper and lower screw openings of leaf element 14 of the hinge when the same is in operative position against the jamb. These posts 10 are of suiiicient length to permit their insertion into the jamb for a substantial distance with their outer slotted ends projecting a substantial distance from the jamb, as shown in Fig. 2. They are ar ranged with slots 11 in alinement and the hinge is slipped upon them and back against the j amb, with the posts fitting closely within the screw openings. Key or retainer 12, provided at its upper end with head or shoulder 15, is then slipped down through slots 11 in posts 10. By repeating the operation at the other end of the door it will be secured firmly in position. As indicated in Fig. 2, edge 17 of key 12 is adapted to lie in a plane parallel with the plane of the main extension of the hinge and to engage with the raised portions 16 of its face at each sideof screw openings 9. The opposite edge 18 of the key slopes gradually toward the lower end of the key and engages posts 10 at the upper ends of slots 11. It will thus be seen that by forcing the tapermg key down into slots 11 the hinge will be held securely in position upon elements 10 andmaintamed rigidly against the amb.

When it. is desired to take down the door, a gentle blow with a hammer at the smaller end of key 12 will release it from its bind ing engagement with posts 10 and the hinge face.v The key may then be drawn out of slots 11 and the hinge slipped off of posts 10. rosts 10 may, of course, be allowed to remainin position in the jamo for use during the next. season. The use of screws in oldholes inthe door jamb, in the usual manner, with the consequent tendency for the screws to work loose, or to rust to the hinge and break when it is attempted to remove them, is thus eliminated.

It will be understood that a single pair of posts and a key may be used with hinges of varying sizes. That is to say, as supporting elements 10 are disconnected they may be employed with hinges having the screw openings either close together or more removed. By inserting posts 10 into the jamb to a depth tosuit the particular conditions, the proper engagement between key and slotted posts may be readily secured. See, for example, Fig. 2, in which figure the lower of the two posts is shown as inserted farther into the jamb than the upper post.

It will also be understood that if desired the key may be made in more than one piece and that diiferent'forms of securing elements or posts may be employed. In Fig. 3, forv example, I have shown a screw-threaded element 19 having parallel sides above its threaded portion and made without a tool-engaging groove. In Fig. 5 I have shown element 20 as provided with barbs 21. It may be driven into the jamb and given a quarter turn by engaging a leverin slot 11, to increase the gripping eflect of the barbs. Element 19 may, of course, be turned in the same way. The application to the post of an adhesive substance such as cement serves still further to maintain it rigidly in position.

What I claim is 1. Means for securing a hinged or similar device in operative position, comprising a slotted post for insertion in the jamb or similar structure, and a key engageable in said slot, as and for the purpose specified.

2. v Hinge securing means, comprising posts adapted to project outwardly from the j amb or similar structure through the hinge, and a retaining element having a wedging engagement with said posts, for shearing the hinge in the operative position relatively to the jamb or similar structure.

3. Means for securing a hinged device in operative position, comprising independently movable slotted elements adapted to pass through the screw-receiving openings of the hinge and a key fitting in said slots, above the face of the hinge.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with a hinge having openings therein, of independently adjustable securing elements adapted to extend within said openings, and cooperating retaining means having a Wedging; engagement with said securing elements, for maintaining the hinge in required position.

' 5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a hinge having openings therethrough, of independently adjust-' able slotted securing elements adapted to project through said openings, the slots in said elements being laterally elongated in line with the longitudinal axes of said elee ments, and a tapered key conforming in cross-section to the contour of the slots, for engaging in said slots and bearing at separated points upon the hinge.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination of slotted hinge-supporting posts and a flat key adapted to engage within said slots, on edge, and to bear against the hinge, the key having a wedging engagement between slotted posts and hinge.

7. Means for supporting a standard hinge in desired position directly against the j amb or similar structure, comprising hinge-supporting posts adapted to be connected rigidly to the jamb or similar structure and to project through the screw-receiving openings of the hinge, and means engaging said posts to maintain the hinge in desired position relatively thereto.

8. Means for supporting a standard hinge in desired position directly against the jamb or similar structure, comprising hinge-sup porting posts, disconnected and independently movable with respect to each other, adapted to be connected rigidly to the j amb or similar structure, and a cooperating retaining element disconnected from the hinge, for engagement with the posts above the face of the hinge.

BENJAMIN C. POTTS.

WVitnesses:

HOWARD S. OKIE, MAE HOFMAN N.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,163,769, granted December 14,

1915, upon the application of Benjamin C. Potts, of Media, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Hinge-Supports, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 14, claim 2, for the word shearing read securing; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 18th day of January, A. D., 1916.

' J. T. NEWTON,

[SEAL] Acting Commissioner of Patents. Cl. l6-106.

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