US1822640A - Gate fastener - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. 8 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELI J. ANDERSON, OF SHERIDAN, WYOMING, ASSIGNGR OF ONE-HALF TO LAURA B. SMITH, OF SHERIDAN, WYOMING GATE FASTENER Application filed April 7, 1931. Serial No. 528,372.

This invention relates to gate fastening devices and more particularly to a device by means of which a gate composed of strands of wire may be tightened between a pair of Supports.-

An ob ect of this invention is to provide a device of this kind which is readily and cheaply manufactured and which is adapted to tighten a flexible gate and maintain the gate in tightened or tensioned position.

Another object of this invention is to pro vide a gate fastener of this kind which is so constructed as to provide a considerable amount of leverage to a flexible gate so that the gate may be maintained in relatively taut position.

The above and various other objects and advantages of this invention will in part be described in and in part be understood from the following detailed description of the present preferred embodiment, the same being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of a 5 device constructed according to the preferred embodiment of this invention mounted on a gate structure, and

Figure 2 is a detail top plan view of the device.

Referring to the drawings wherein like numerals of reference designate correspond ing parts throughout the several views, the numeral 10 designates generally a gate structure which is mounted at one end on a post or support 11, for swinging movement with respect to a second post 12. This gate structure 10, in the present instance, is constructed of strands of wire 18 which are secured at one end to the supporting post- 11 and the r opposite ends of the strands 18 are secured to an elongated bar 14.

Disposed between the bar 14 and the post 11 there are mounted spacers 15 which are secured to the strands of wire 13 and are adapted to hold these strands in spaced relation to each other. These spacers 15 are of a length to readily clear the ground so that when the gate structure 10 is swung horizon tally, the dividers 15 will not drag on the ground.

A loop 16 is mounted on the supporting post 12 and extends outwardly therefrom, this loop being adapted to engage the lower end of the gate bar 14 so as to hold this bar, 14 in desired position with respect to the post 12. A gate locking and tensioning member, generally designated as 17, is secured to the supporting post 12 adjacent the upper end thereof by means of a flexible member 1S. This locking or tensioning member 1'? comprises an elongated bar 19 which is provided at one endtherewith with a curved bar engaging member 20, and a loop or eye 21 is interposed between the end of the bar 19 and the loop 20, this eye 21 engaging the outer end of the flexible member 18 so as to secure the locking member 17 on the post 12.

The opposite end of the bar 19 is provided with a loop 22 which is open at one end, this loop 22 being relatively small and adapted to engage one of thewire strands 13 so as to hold the bar 19 in substantially parallel re lation to the strand of wire 13 engaged by the loop 22. The loop 20 constitutes a ten sioning loop, and when the disposed about the bar 14.

1n the use of this device, the bar 14 is first disposed at the lower end thereof in the loop 16 and the upper end of the bar 14 is pulled toward thesupporting post 12 so that the tensioning loop 20 will engage the bar 14 ad jacent the upper end thereof. In the initial position of this locking member 17, the bar 19 is disposed adjacent the supporting post 12 with the loop 20 disposed about the bar 14. The locking member 17 is then swung toward the gate 10, the upper portion of the bar 14 acting as a fulcrum and in the swinging movement of the locking member 17 the gate structure 10 will be drawn toward the support 12. The bar 19 is swung toward the gate 10 until it is substantially parallel with one of the strands 13, whereupon the holding loop gate is closed, is

22 is positioned on the strand 13, this loop 22 U having the open end thereof so positioned that in order to release the loop 22 from the strand 13, it is necessary to slightly twist the locking member 17. The tension of the gate 10 will act to hold the loop 22 into engagement With the strand 13 so that when this loop 22 is mounted on the strand 13, the gate will remain under tension.

It is, of course, understood that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. A gate fastening device of the character described comprising an elongated body member, an eye secured to and integrally formed with one end of said member, an arouate extension formed with the eye and adapted to engage about a vertically disposed bar carried by a swinging gate structure, a flexible member secured at one end to the eye and at the opposite end to a fixed post, and a loop secured to the opposite end of said member and engageable with the gate structure whereby to lock the member on the gate.

2. A gate fastening and tensioning member of the character described comprising an elongated member, an ofiset eye formed with one end of said member, flexible means carried by a fixed post and engaging the eye whereby to attach the member to the fixed post, an arcuate extension formed with the eye and adapted to engage about a vertically disposed portion of the gate structure, and a relatively small seeming loop formed with the other end of said member and adapted to engage a portion of the gate structure whereby to hold the member into contact with the gate.

3. A gate fastening and tensioning device of the character described comprising an elongated straight member, a loop formed with one end of said member, an arcuate extension formed with the loop, said extension being adapted to engage about a vertically disposed portion of the gate structure, flexible means for engaging the loop whereby to secure the member to a fixed support, and a relatively small loop formed with the opposite end of the member and adapted to engage a strand of wire in the gate structure whereby to hold the member against move ment on the gate and coactively tension the gate.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

ELI J. ANDERSON.

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