US1275506A - Fastening device for gates. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

WALTER K. VOORHEES, OF CEDAR FALLS, IO'WA, ASSIGNOR TO STANDARD MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GATES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

Application filed July 30, 1917. Serial No. 183,507.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER K. VooRHnns, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cedar Falls, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Gates, of which the following is a' specification.

My inventionrelates to improvements in fastening means for gates, and the object of my improvement is to supply a doubly engaging locking-device for a gate, operable from either side thereof, and whose locking means are suitably mounted and controlled to always be prepared for actuation.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the'accompanying drawings, in Which Figure lis an elevation of a gate equipped with my improved fastening means; Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side elevation of sa1d fastening means, with parts broken away; Fig. 3 is an elevation of said fastening means, taken at a right angle to said Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the upper locking set of said fastening means,and Fig. 5. is a view of the several parts, in perspective, of the lockmg device as demounted and disassembled from each other.

' Similar numerals of reference denote cor responding parts throughout the several views.

InFig. 1 is shown a gate of an ordinary flexible type, composed of front and rear stiles 12 and 20, connected at thelr upper and lower ends by means of longitudinal bars 23 and hinge-connections 27, said stiles and bars being tubular but may be of any other suitable forms.

The rear stile 20 has hinge-connections 22 to a rear post 21. The stiles may be connected by a flexible wire netting 25. A slidable clamp 26 may be mounted upon the lower part of the front stile 12, and connected by side wires 24 tothe upper part of the rear stile 20, whereby the gate may be flexibly adjusted by raising or loweringits forward end. i 1 1 On the front post 19 is bracketed a relatively long offset rod 13 adjacent and parallel to the front stile 12.

Duplicate sets of locking-devices are mounted upon said front stile opposite said upright rod 13. Each of these lockingdevices comprises the following associated parts, shown disassembled in Fig. 5 in the same relative order in which they are mounted upon the front stile:

The numeral 1 denotes a sleeve having on opposite sides depending pairs of lugs2 and at its top a semi-circular flange 3, the latter providing, engaging-means for a purpose to be described. A single coil spring 1 encircles the stile, mounted on the half circle flange 3,. and an orificed locking clip 5 rests upon said spring, said clip having a fork 6, as also oppositely-placed orificed studs 7. The numeral 8 denotes another sleeve, of a size adapting it topass downwardly through the central opening of the locking-clip 5, which it engages by an annular fillet or flange 9 on its upper end, the sleeve 8 passing down through the firstmentioned sleeve 1. Said sleeve 8 has transverse orifices which register with the interspaces of said pairs of lugs 2, to receive a bolt 10, which latter traverses orifices in the stile 12, and is secured by a nut 11. These duplicate locking devices are mounted on said front stile at a suitable distance apart opposite said catch-rod 13.

Referring now to said Figs. 2 to 4, inclusive, the numeral 18 denotes a pair of vertical rods whose lower ends are passed downwardly through the orifices in the bosses 7 of the lowermost locking-clip 5' and have their lower extremities swaged or spread to prevent their escape upwardly from the clip. The upper part of each rod 18 is obliquely offset outwardly at 17 and 16, then bent horizontally inwardly at 14, then bent into depending tip 15 which is mounted slidably to rock in the orifice of a boss 7 on the uppermost locking-clip 5.

This offset part of the rod 18 serves as a finger-hold for 'manual operation thereof, while its depending tip 15 acts 1n engaging the radially directed stop part of the semicircular flange3 on the sleeve 1 when the most clip 5 to disengage the lower stop 3, 7

when the gate may be swung open in the operation causing the forks 6 of the clips 5 to be engaged by and moved by the catchrod 13 to one side, leaving the forks di rected obliquely in an appropriate position to engage and reinclose the catch-rod when the gate is swung back to close it.

Since the locking-clip 5 is mounted to rock upon the sleeve 1, unless controlled suitably to leave it in a certain position, when the gate is swung open and is then kept in said position, it will, by reason of its inertia, move farther than necessary, and thus, when the gate is swung back, probably not be in a position to properly engage and reinclose the catch-rod 13.

I have successfully overcome this defect in operation by the insertion of the spring 4 under and engaging the clip 5, and which exercises a frictional tension upon said clip, which counteracts its inertia, and keeps it in its proper position where left after the gate is swung outwardly, so that when the gate is returned, the fork 6 will always be ready to engage and reinclose the catch-rod 13, and the lifted one of the latch-rods 18 will then drop as its depending tip 15 rides off the semi-circular flange 3, to be reengaged and interlocked with the stop part thereof.

The connecting of the two locking-clips 5 by the offset-rods 18 enables the clips to work simultaneously in engaging or disengaging the stops, and in swinging to or from the catch-rod 13.

The numeral 29 denotes a loop-shaped stop mounted adjustably on the catch-rod 13 immediately above the lower locking-clip 5, and whose members are secured on the red by a bolt 30 and nut 31, and limits upward movement of the gate relative to said. rod so that animals cannot push it upwardly from a certain position.

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

1. In combination, in gate fastening means, a support, a forked clip rotatably mounted on said support, stops mounted on said support, fastening-means movably mounted on said clip and adapted for de tachable engagement with said stops, and yieldable resilient means contacting with and exercising pressure against said clip to overcome the inertia of the latter when moved in either direction.

2. In combination in gate fastening means, a fixed upright standard, a gate stile adapted to swing to and from said standard,

a sleeve fixed on said stile having oppositelylocatcd stops, a forked clip rotatably mounted on said stile above said stops, a compression spring engaged between said sleeve and said clip, means for limiting the. longitudinal movement of said clip along the stile away from said spring, and catches mounted on said clip, adapted to be engaged with said stops to prevent rotation of the clip, or be singly disengaged to permit rotation of the clip in one direction.

3. In combination in gate fastening means, a support, forked clips longitudinally spaced apart on said support and rotatably mounted thereon, stops longitudinally spaced apart onsaid support and fixedly mounted thereon, and a fastening rod having its upper part offset with its extremity depending into movable engagementwith the upper clip and in detachable engagement with the upper stop, and having its lower end positioned in movable engagement with the lower clip and in detachable engagement with the lower stop.

4:. In combination in gate fastening means, a support, orificed forked clips lon gitudinally spaced apart on said support, and rotatably mounted thereon, stops longitudinally spaced apart on said support and fixedly mounted thereon in juxtaposition to said clips, and a fastening rod having its upper part offset with its extremity depending through an orifice in the upper clip to detachably engage the upper stop, the lower end of said rod passing through an orifice in the lower clip to detacha'bly engage the lower stop, the said lower end being enlarged to prevent its escape from said lower clip.

5. In combination in gate fastening means, a support, forked clips having orifices on opposite sides of the support, said clips being longitudinally spaced apart on said support and rotatably mounted thereon, fixed stops on opposite sides of said support underneath said clips, and fastening rods, each rod having its upper part offset and provided with a depending tip movable through one of the orifices in the upper clip into detachable engagement with one of the upper stops, the lower extremity of each rod passing movably through one of the orifices in the lower clip into detachable engagement with the lower stop.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 25th day of July, 1917.

\VALTER K. VOORHEES.

copies at this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Yatents.

Washington, D. C.

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