US1265363A

US1265363A - Adjustable hinge.

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Publication number: US1265363A
Application number: US15687417A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles H Nixon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1917-03-23
Filing date: 1917-03-23
Publication date: 1918-05-07
Anticipated expiration: 1935-05-07

Description

Patented May 7,1918.

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A TTORIVE V CHARLES H. NIXON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

ADJUSTABLE HINGE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs H. 'NIXON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Hinge, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to hingesespecially adapted for use in mounting swinging doors of buildings. 7

The invention has for its object the provision of a hinge of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction which may be readily applied in the usual way, but with greater facility in effecting the proper hanging of doors, in which provision is made for pivotally connecting the leaves of the hinge in a manner to render them bodily removable relativelyso as to enable adjustments to be made to compensate for variations in the door or casing and insure an even fitting and free swinging of the door.

In attaining the above object the invention contemplates, briefly described, the employment of a pair of hingeleaves each having pintle knuckles and which are joined in adjacent parallel relation by intercon-v necting links interposed between the pintle knuckles. -The ends of the links engaged with the stationary leaf ofthe hinge freely embrace the pintle thereof and form the pivotal bearings upon which the companion leaf of the hinge swings, while the ends of the links engaged with the swinging leaf tightly embrace the pintle thereof under sufficient frictional stress to normally prevent pivotal movement of the engaged parts, yetyielding under the application of undue stress to permit of the shifting ofthe pintle about the pivotal axis of the stationary hinge to varythe distance between the leavesv without altering their parallel relation or disturbingtheir fixed positions upon the stationary and swinging members.

A preferred structural embodiment of the essential features of the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

in which,

Figure 1 1s a perspectlve view of a hlnge constructed in accordance with my lnven tion.

Fig. 2 isa horizontal sectional view through a portion of a door and casing, showingthe hinge in end elevation attached thereto andindicating by dotted lines an adjusted'position of the hinge leaves.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail in perspec- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May "Z, 1918.

Application filed March 23, 1917. Serial No. 156,874.

tive of portions of the hinge members disengaged.

Fig. 4c is a vertical sectional view through the hinge knuckles and connecting links on dotted line fl 4: of Fig. 2.

Referring to the parts by the characters of reference marked on the drawings, 1 represents the frame or jamb of a doorway within which the door 2 is hinged to swing, 3 indicates a stop for the door and 4 the casing for the door frame, all of which is common.

The body of the hinge consists of two plates or

leaves

5 and 6 preferably stamped to form of sheet metal and provided with holes 7 for the reception of screws 8 by which said leaves are attached respectively to the jamb and door being seated in mortices formed therein in the usual way. See Fig. 2. The stationary or jamb leaf 5 is provided at its outer edge with a series of spaced axially alined pintle knuckles 9 which are offset to overlie the plane of the inner face of the leaf by an arcuate extension 10, and the outer edge of the swinging or door leaf 6 is provided with a series of correspondingly spaced pintle knuckles 11 which normally nest within the arcuate extension of the leaf 5 and lie in adjacent transverse alinement parallel with the knuckles 9 thereof.

Inserted in the registering spaces between the knuckles of the hinge leaves to extend transversely thereof is a connecting link or links 12, each comprising two parallelly connected knuckles which lie in axial alinement with corresponding barrels of the leaves and receive the

respective hinge pintles

13 and 14 which are extended through said knuckles, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4c. The pintle 18, which extends freely through the knuckles of the stationary leaf and the connecting links, forms the pivotal axis on which the links turn together with the swinging leaf and door carried thereby, and the body of this pintle, which is preferably removable, is divided near one end and provided with a cap or plug 15 fixed in a knuckle of the hinge in the usual way. The pintle 1a connecting said'links with the door leaf is made.

ment of the members forming this joint when subjected to added stress under the application of leverage force or impact -to break the joint and change the angular relation-of the. linksand door leaf so as to-effect an adjustment bodily of the leaves of the hinge.

Under ordinary conditions the frictional contact afforded .by a 'tight fit of the pintle 14 within the knuckles of the links andadoor leaf is sufiicient to retain them in set relation against accidental displacement, but ,in certain uses of the hinge,,as when carrying unusually heavy doors, it .may be desirable to fixedly secure one or more of the links to the 'pintle '14 in order 'to more positively bring into service the frictional surfacesof the knuckles of'the door lea-f which collectively embrace the p'intle over agreatenbearing surface than that afforded by the knuckles of the links, and thus resistance to the turning of the'connected members of the joint will be'increased. This may "be-effectively accomplished by inserting a I in transversely through the knuckle of the link and pintle as indicated at 16. "See Fig. 4.

Where smaller hinges for lighter wor'k are required the hinge leaves may be formed with a single pair of spaced knuckles "forthe reception of -a single connecting link in which the p'in'tle of the swinging leaf may be tightly fitted therein and in the knuckles o-f the leaf, or itmay be 'fixedly secured in the link knuckle by means of a pin as may be desirable to regulate the frictional re sistance of the joint.

From the foregoing description of the construction the operation of the hinge should now be understood as follows: It will be-noted that the door leaf and connecting link normally "swing together upon the pintle of the stationary leaf, and .as the angular position'of the connecting link to the plane of'the door leaf determines the nested or spaced relation of the two leaves-it will be appare-ntthat by exertingsufiicientforce upon-the link to turn it to the desired angle upon the pintle of the door leaf the space between the leaves may be varied to shift the door transversely and effect an adjustment' thereof to secure the proper fitting or clearance with the jamb or leasing. This may be readily accomplished without'disengaging the hinge or necessitating the disengagement or adjustment of any of the parts thereof further than to drive or force the knuckle of the link into or out of the arcuate extension of the jamb leaf to effect an adjustment correspondingly of the door leaf and door.

I claim:

1. A hinge comprising two' leaves, and a to by link pivotally connected to each of said leaves, said link "having fixed engagement with the ,pivotal connection of one leaf and restrained against movement relative there- .frictional engagement of .the pivotal connection with said leaf.

2. A h-inge having two leaves each provided with a pair of spaced pintle knuckles, a link interposed between the knuckles and connecting said leaves, a pintle "forming a pivotal connection between said link and the knuckles of one leaf, and 'a pintle tightly embraced said link and the knuckles of theao'ther of said leaves and ;fr ictiona'-lly 11'6- straining said members against pivotal movement. e

'8. A hinge havingtwo leaves each pro vided with apa-ir of correspondingly spaced pintle' *knuckles, the knuckles ofone leaf being oifset to overlie the-plane-o'f the face of said leaf by an arcuate extension; embracing the knuckles of the companion lea'f, a connecting lin'k havin-g knuckles interposed -respectively between the knuckles of 'said leaves, and pintles pivotally connecting the knuckles of said l ink with the respective knuckles of .Sitil leaves, one *of said pintles bemg'restrame'd agamst pivotal movementby frictional engagement with the-embracing knuckles. I

4. A hinge-having two leaves each pro,- vided with a pair-of s 'aaced p'intle knuckles,

one of said leaves having an offset a'rcuate en tension for the reception off the knuckles of the companion leaf, aconnecting link having knuckles "interposed TBSPBtiVl-Y' between tlreknuc' kles of said leaves,-pintles pivotally connecting the knuckles of said link with the respective knuckles of said leaves, one of said pin tles being restrained -aga'-inst pivotal movement "by z f-rictiona'l engagement with the knu'ckles -of theconnected leaf, and

means to fixedly secure said pintle to the engaged lmuckleofsaid hnk.

'5. A hi-nge ihavin-g two leaves-each provided "with a pintle knuckle, one of which.

knuckles 5 is offset to overlie -the plane of the face of its leaf 'by an angular extension adapted to embrace the knuckle of the com pa-nion leaf, =a -link connecting said leaves having knuckles respectively registering with the knucklesthereof, and p'in-t'les pivotally connecting the knuckles of said ilink with the respective lmu'ck les "of said leaves,

one of said sp'intles fleeing restrained against pivotal movement by frictional engagement with one of the embracing knuckles, .and means to fixedl secure said pintle-*-to=the other embracing knuckle.

In testimony whereof 'Isign this sp ec'i ficati'on.

' NIXON.

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