US1301417A - Connecting device. - Google Patents

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R. WfFBANKLIN.

CONNECTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 191B.

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N ITED STATES PATENT RAY W. FRANKLIN, OF MON'IICELLO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR T0 FRANKLIN BARN EQUIPMENT COMPANY, OF MONTICELLO, IOWA, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

CONNECTING- DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 11919.

Application filed April 6, 1918. Serial No. 227,148.

1 b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAY W. FRANKLIN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Monticello, Jones county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connecting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in connecting devices, and the object of my improvement is to supply a rigid securing means for elements positioned angularly to each other, which will permit relative play in one direction to one element, while resisting stresses acting thereon in other directions.

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 1 is an elevation of a swinging gate whose frame includes a plurality of my improved connecting devices, a part of one gate-stile being broken away; Fig. 2 is a side elevation on a larger scale of one of said connectin devices; Fig. 3 is a cross-section thereo and Fig. 4: is a plan View thereof.

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

In Fig. 1 is shown a flexible gate whose rear stile 1 is hinged at 10 to a rear post 9. Both the rear stile 1 and the front stile 8 are formed of U-bars, which are connected together pivotally at tops and bottoms by means of horizontal pipes or tubes 7. The stiles are also connected by means of netted wire, while a wire 11 leads from one end of the rear stile 1 diagonally across the length of the gate to a clip 12 slidably adjustably mounted about the front stile 8, whereby the frame parts of the gate may be flexed in a well-known manner to raise or lower its forward free end.

Referring now to the other figures, the numeral 2 denotes a sleeve fixedly mounted on a tube 7 near one end thereof by meansthat both the sleeve 2 and its forks 4 are set back from the extremity of the tube 7, said extremity passing between the opposed inner walls of said stile as far as possible and contacting therewith. Orifices are supplied in said forks, stile and tube extremity to receive a pivot-bolt 5, which is tightly secured by means of a nut 6, the orifices 13 in said forks f being elongated longitudinally .to permit adjustments thereof relative to the stile when necessary.

It will be seen that the tube 7 may swing in one direction on the pivot-bolt 5. The elements of the connection, however, are so assembled and associated as to make a very strong and rigid joint, such as will best resist torsional strains without breaking or distorting any element thereof, as might occur with a long heavy gate whose tube parts 7 exert considerable leverage. As will be best seen in said Fig. 4c, the extremity of the tube 7 has a relatively long contact with the inner walls of the U-bar 1, thus affording an additional grip and reinforcement besides the clamping engagement of the forks & with the outer walls of the U-bar. The whole thickness of the tube 7 is therefore made available as a reinforcement of the joint, which relieves the forks 4 of most of the strain, besides giving said tube an additional pivotal bearing on the pivotbolt 5.

While my improved connecting device is illustrated in use in connecting the frame elements of a gate, it is obvious that it may be employed to connect any two bodies to gether without departing from the principle of my invention.

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

In combination, a body having an opening. a beam having one extremity mounted within the opening of said body to engage its opposite inner walls, a sleeve fixedly mounted on said beam and having forks spanning and engaging opposite outer faces of said body, all said partsbeing orificed in line, the tasks being. elem gated longitudinally, a pivot-bolt seated in Signed at Monticello, Iowa, this 25th day said alined orifices, and securing-means adof March, 1918. justably mounted on said pivot-bolt to secure said parts together in engagement While 5 permitting swinging movements in one \Vitnesses:

plane only to said beam relative to said MARGARET QUIRK, body. E. E. REED.

RAY W. FRANKLIN.

Copies of this went may be 'obtainecl or dive centu each, by addressing the commissioner of Patents,

1 Washington, D. G.

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