US1551506A - Door-fastening device - Google Patents

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Aug. 25, '1925.

1,551,506 S. W. PARSONS DOOR FASTENING DEVICE Filed April 18, 1923 xxq Patented Aug. 25, 1925.

UNITED STAT Es p 1,551,50e PATENT oer-Ice.

sT UAnT w. PARSONS, ornnw BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASS GNOR To THE .sTANLnY worms, or NEW'BBJTAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION or. CONNECTICUT.

DOOR-FASTENING DEVICE.

Application filed April 18, 1923. Serial no. 632,857.

A. difficulty 'encounteredin devising. door I fastening,devices isithat. doors which are subject to weather conditions,isuch as in thecase of garage doors and the like, become warped-so that in closing them it is necessary to springineither the top or bottom in ordertoetightly. closethe door space, and for this reason it has generally been the practice to providea separatecatch or fastening .deviceforthetop. and bottom of the door. When using such an arrangement, considerable force must beappliedin an inconvenient manner to firstlock theftop or the bottom, as thecase may be, and then to spring. and fasten the other.- side. It'is, ac cordingly, an object of this invention toprovide an improved formandarrangement for door fastening by which the top j and bottom.

' may be.fastenedsimultaneously. 1 j

Anotherxobject of theinvention is to provide an efficient device-for fastening doors by which-the force to close the door is applied through the fasteningidevice itself.

Another obj'ect of the-invention is to provide an improved form of door fastening device which; maybe 'adjustably fitted to a variety of varying heights of doors.

Other objects will be in part obvious and. in part pointed out hereinafter. I

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction,combination of ele ments and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the'application of which will be indicated inthe ap-' pended claim.

In the drawing, in which is illustrated a door fastening device constructed in accordance with the practice of this invention .and in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts Fig. 1 is an elevation showingthe fastening device mounted on a door, and the members on the wall anddoor casing with which the door fastening device cooperatesto close the door;

Fig. Q'is-aplz'm view taken along the line;

22 and illustrating the mannerin; which certainportions "of the. device operate to.

force the. door into. closed position and.

Fig- 3 is a sectional View along. theline position.

Referring to the drawing-,the device com- 33, showing the means for holding the J door fastening: device in its open or closed prises a rod a mounted vertically on a door I) by meansof recessedangleplates c and provided atleither. end .withia clawd, the

upper one of which engagesa pincmounted on'the door casing; and a pin f mounted 1n the floor for engagement bythe lower claw and a handle 9 by means of which theirod a I may be turned-toenga-gethe pins '6 and 'f.

The rod a is made in two sections 1O and- 11 which arejoined by means of the sleeve 12. Each of these sections isboredasat 13 to provide a number of bolt holes at varying distancesfrom the endsof the rod.

Near each end of the sleeve 12there is'provided ahole corresponding in size to the holes. 13 so-that a-bolt 15 may] be passed through. oneof the holes13 and the-hole 1 1 when in-registryto lengthen-or shorten the rod: a. Generally centrally of the sleeve 12 there is'provided' a boss 16 UPOITWVhlOlTth'G handleig ispivotally mounted by meansofa pin 17passing through the handle andthe boss.- 'Wh en itisdesired to rotate-the rod a, the handle gimay be liftedto provide suflicientL leverage; 'B'eing thus pivoted the handle may be dropped to be out of the way, and, additionally in this position the handle cooperates with a locking means hereinafter described.

Each of the claws has its active or pin engaging edge 18 curved so as to form a cam surface whichfacilitates in'closing the door in that the claws hook about the pins, so to speak, and force the door to full closed position when the handle is turned.

Bearings for the rod 0; are provided by angle plates 0 suitably aperturedto receive bushings 20 replaceable when worn, which the main bearing members 0 by which the rod a is kept from bending out of alinement when pressure is applied to the handle 9.

The pin 0, which is located at the casing for engagement with the claw (Z, is mounted on a plate 25. The plate may be screwed or fastened in any suitable manner onto the door casing, and in such position that when the door is nearly closed and the claw (Z is rotated by means of the rod a and the handle g, the end of the claw will engage therewith so as to draw the top of the door inwardly. The pin is preferably embedded in a concrete floor adjacent the door jamb and is held rigidly between two end plates 29 which form the top and bottom of an open sided box structure having a side plate 30 pro vided to join the end plates 29 to keep them. in properly spaced relation. The side plate 30 also acts as a door stop. The pin f is engaged by the lower claw d in precisely the same manner as the upper pin e above described.

If the door 6 is warped somewhat, it may be that the top or bottom will tend to spring outwardly when the door has been fastened and, therefore, it is desirable that, when the door has been pulled tightly shut, means be provided for holding the handle 9 to prevent reverse rotation of the rod a which would release the claws (Z. To this end there is provided an angularly bent sheet metal member 32 shown in plan in Fig. 3 which is apertured to receive the sleeve 12 therethrough so that the member may be screwed or bolted to the door and extend horizontally adjacent the path of the handle g. Two notches are provided in the horizontally extending portion of the member 32 such as are indicated at 34: and 86 so that when the handle 9 is allowed to drop it will fall into one or the other of these notches and be held there. If the handle 9 be turned in its door fastening position, it may be dropped into the notch 86, and if rotated to its disengaging position, it may be dropped in the notch 34, being held in either of these positions by the projection 37 separating the notches.

The handle g is preferably made of sheet metal material, and has a face or body portion 40 with side ribs 41 extending at right angles thereto and ears 42 extending generally in the direction of theside ribs a1 but slightly therebeyond and apertured to receive the pivot pin 17. The metal is cut away slightly adjacent the ears 4-2 as indicated at 44- so as to permit the handle to assume a horizontal position at right angles to the rod a.

Thus, by the above described construction, are accomplished, among others, the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of theinvention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

A door fastening device comprising a sleeve, rods connected to the opposite ends of the sleeve, bolt heads carried by the rods for engagement with fixed keepers, a bearing bracket for said sleeve having an outstanding projection with notches on the opposite edges thereof, and a handle pivoted on said sleeve to turn therewith and move the bolt heads into locking and released positions and to swing thereon into position to engage said notches and secure the bolt heads in said locking and released positions.

STUART lV. PARSONS.

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