US1231313A - Door-hinge. - Google Patents

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O. G. TWEDDELL.

DOOR HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28. ISIS.

Patented June 26, 1917.

OSCAR G. TWEDDELL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DOOR-HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917.

Application filed July 28, 1916. Seria1 No. 111,833.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,0SOARG. Twnnnnnn, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certam new and useful Improvements in Door Hinges, of which the following is-a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

his invention relates to door hinges, and

the primary object of my invention is to provide novel hinges that may be advantageously used in connection with the doors of automobiles, coaches or other vehicles, the hinges including novel means, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, whereby either of the vertical edges of a door may be swung free of the door jamb thus permitting of a door being opened to the left or right or bodily removed from the door jamb.

Another object of my invention is to )rO- vide latch held releasable hinge members that may he used upon fire doors or the closures of fire exits insomuch that a fire door may be easily and quickly completely removed from its door jamb or frame. A door having such hinge members has a beveled latch mechanism and irrespective of the manner in which the mechanism is actuated, one of the edges of the door is released and to completely remove the door from its jamb, it isonly necessary to again actuate the latch mechanism. 7

A further object of my invention is to provide door hinges and a latch mechanism wherein the parts are constructed with a view of reducing the cost of manufacture and at the same time retain the features by which durability, simplicity of construction, and ease of assembling the parts in a door jamb and door, are secured, and with such ends in View, my invention resides in a novel construction to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a door hinge in accordance with my invention;

ig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a plan of the door hinge;

Fig. dis a perspective view of a strike plate;

Fig. 5 is an elevation of a door or door frame in accordance with my invention; and

Fig. 6 is a plan of a portion of an auto- 11 set in the side edges mobile body provided with a door in accordance with my invention. a

In the drawing, 1 denotes jamb plates carried by the side edges ofa door jamb or doorway, for instance that of an automobile body, said door jamb or body being cut away to permit of said jainb plates being countersunk, also to provide clearance for pintle brackets 3, carried by each of the plates. The pintle brackets 3 vertically aline and are brazed or otherwise connected tothe jamb plates 1, although it is possible to stamp out the brackets from the bodv of each jamb plate. As best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pintle brackets 3 are spaced apart at one edge of each jamb plate and above the pintle bracketseach jamb plate has openings 4 providing clearance for hinged members 5. The hinge members 5 are L shaped or angular in plan, and said hinge members have depending pintles (3 extending through the brackets 3 and supporting the hinge members thereon, whereby said hinge members may be swung in a lateral plane. Connected to and encircling the lower ends of the pintles 6 are coiled retractile springs 7 disposed to hold the hinge members 5 normally closed. The hinge members 5 associated with each amb plate are connected by a strike plate having the ends thereof beveled, as at 9, and the central portion thereof provided with latch openings 10. The strike plates 8 are adapted to fit in latch or keeper plates of a door or door frame 12, and as shownin Fig. 5, these latch or keeper plates may form part of a metallic binder or frame on the edges of the door. The latch or keeper plate 9 have theends-thereof shaped orformed to re ceive the beveled ends of the strikeplate 8, whereby the strike plate may readily ride inand' out of the latch or keeper plate. Centrally of the latch or keeper plate 11 are latch openings 13 for-latches 14, said latches being beveled in the usual and well known manner so that the latches will readily ride into engagement with-the keeper plate, assume retracted positions, and eventually enter the latch openings 10 of'said strike plate to hold or look the strike plate within the latch or keeper plate. The latches 14 have rods 15, slidable in guides 16 and encircling said latch rods are coiled compression springs 17 which hold the latches 11 normally extended. The inner ends of the latch rods 15 have pin and slot connections 18 With a cross head 19 on a pivoted lever 20, said lever being arranged in or without the door or door frame 12 so that the free end of said lever may be swung to retract either of the latches 14:. As shown in Fig. 5, the lever 20 is preferably embodied within the door structure and the free end of said lever is exposed at the inner side of the door, whereby the occupant of an automobile may actuate the lever to release either edge of the door to swing in a desired direction. As shown in Fig. 6, the door has been opened to the right, but as illustrated by dotted lines, it may be swung to the left or may be bodily removed. To bodily remove the door, first one latch is actuated to allow the door to swing open, and with the door open the other latch is released, thus permitting of the door being removed.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have devised a door jamb and door construction having novel detachable door supporting members including opposed strike plates and opposed latch or keeper plates, the latter constituting socket members for the former thereby permitting of a door being easily and quickly hun With the hinge members 5 practically integral and so, also the pintle brackets 7, there is no danger of one part of the hinge sagging relative to the other, and a door can be furnished with ordinary beads or weather strips to finish out the door and door jamb connections.

It is thought that the operation and utility of the door will be apparent without further description, and while in the drawing there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that the structural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

hat I claim is l. A door hinge comprising separable strike and keeper plates, and a latch extending through the keeper plate into the strike plate to hold said plates together so that both of said plates may be moved in synchronism.

2. A door hinge comprising separable strike and keeper plates, and means pivotally supporting said strike plate so that said keeper plate may be moved therewith.

3. A door hinge comprising a jamb'plate,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for a strike plate pivotally connected thereto, and a keeper plate to bodily receive said strike plate.

A door hinge including a frame member having beveled ends, and a door member adapted to swing in an are on and off of said frame member and having beveled ends adapted for engagement with the ends of said frame member to limit the moving on movement of said door member.

5. A door hinge comprising a jamb plate, a strike plate pivotally connected thereto, a keeper plate to bodily receive said strike plate, and means holding saidstrike and keeper plates normally together.

6. A door hinge comprising a jamb plate, angular hinge members extending therethrough and adapted to swing in horizontal planes, a strike plate connecting said hinge members, and a door keeper plate at one side of said strike plate and fitted on the ends of said strike plate.

7. A door hinge comprising a jamb plate, pintle brackets carried thereby, angular hinge m embers extending through said jamb plate and pivotally connected to said pintle brackets to swing in horizontal planes, a strike plate connecting said hinge members, means adjacent said pintle brackets adapted to hold said strike plate normally in parale lelism with said jamb plate, and a door keeper plate inclosing the greater part of said strike plate.

8. In a door jamb, hinged strike plates at opposite sides of said jamb, a door, and keeper plates at opposite edges of said door adapted to move in a horizontal plane on and off of said strike plates and having a limited moving on movement relative to said strike plates.

9. The combination with a doorof jamb members adapted for supporting said door and one of said members remain stationary and independent of said door during a lateral swinging movement of the other member supporting said door, and door members adapted to bodily receive said jamb menr bers and move in a horizontal plane on and off of said jamb members.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two WltI16SS6S.

OSCAR G. TVVEDDELL.

W'itnesses:

ANNA M. Donn, CHAS. l/V. STANFFIGER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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