US1404498A - Hinge - Google Patents

Description

PATENT OFFICE.

IPERRY CALVIN WALLACE, 0F MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

Application filed March 25, 1921. Serial No. 455,403.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PERRY C. lVALLAon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montgomery, in the county of Montgomery and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Hinge, of which the following is a specification.

By way of explanation, it may be stated that when a door, window, lid or other closure is suspended by means of hinges for swinging movement, the closure, in many instances, does not fit properly with respect to the jambs. This improper fitting may result from lack of care or skill in the cutting of the gains for the hinges, or, if no gains are cut, it may result from an irregularity in the shape of the door, or from lack of parallelism in the jambs.

Any diliiculty of the sort above mentioned is alluded to, the common practice is to place shims of card board, wedges of wood or the like, between the leave of the hinge and the jamb or between the wings of the hinges and the closure. Such shims, wedges, and the like, rarely are permanent, durable and satisfactory. They lose their shape and position, fall out, or become useless otherwise,

and as a result, the door sags or changes its position.

The foregoing being understood, it may be stated that it is the object of this invention to provide a hinge which is so constructed, that, by simply adjusting the screws which hold the hinge in place, the door may be made to hang properly.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of-that type to which the invention appertains.

lVith the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, with in the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation, a hinge constructed in accordance with the invention, the hinge being opened; Figure 2 is a sectional view, showing the hinge applied to a. closure and a jamb.

The numeral 1 denotes a jamb and the numeral 2 marks a door, window, lid or other closure. The closure 2 is connected to the jamb 1 by a hinge 3 including leaves 4 which may be connected pivotally in any desired way. The leaves 4 may have knuckles 5 through which a pin 6 passes, as common. Screws 7 unite the leaves 4 with the jamb 1 and with the door 2. The leaves 4 have openings 8 through which the screws 7 pass. The leaves 4 are provided with transverse seats or grooves 9 wherein resilient members 10, preferably in the form of strips of rubber or other resilient material, are retained, the seats 9, preferably being undercut slightly, as indicated in Figure 2 in order to retain the strips 10. The strips may be cemented in or held otherwise in the seats 9. The strips or resilient members 10 project beyond the inner surface of the leaves 4 and bear against the jamb 1 and the door 2. Clearly, by tightening up or advancing the screws 7, the members 10 may be compressed more or less, and in this way, the door or other closure 2 may be adjusted with respect to the opening wherein it swings.

Although both leaves of the hinge are pro vided with the resilient members 10, but one wing can be so equipped, if desired.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A hinge comprising leaves, each composed of a single layer, one of said leaves being provided with a resilient member, one edge of the resilientmember projecting beyond all portions of said leaf, and being exposed, for compression and to afiord an adjustment of said leaf when the leaf i secured in place, the opposite edge of the resilient member abutting against said leaf to secure a compression of the resilient member by said leaf.

2. A device of the class described. con structed as set forth in claim 1. and further characterized by the fact that said leaf is provided with a groove extended but part way therethrough, the resilient member fitting closely in the groove and being held therein by its resiliency.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PERRY CALVIN WALLACE.

Witnesses:

ANNIE LEE Dromzr, S. J. SALMEN.

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