US1854803A - Hood catch - Google Patents

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April 19, 1932. R M OR 1,854,803

HOOD CATCH Filed Nov. 7, 1929 INVENTOR. Ra mmvn EMUURE BY Wm ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. 19, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RAYMOND G. MOORE, OF BRIDGEPCRT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BASSICK COM- PANY, F BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT HOOD CATCH Application filed November 7,1929. Serial No. 405,420.

The present invention relates to hood catches, and has for an object to provide a catch which when disengaged will be firmly held in a predetermined position away from the hood against both inward movement into the path of the closing and opening movement of the hood, and against outward movement into contact with the fender and sill surfaces. r

The present improvements are particularly for use in hood catches of the type disclosed in the patent to Kerr and Pray, #1,312,07 8, dated August 5, 1919, in which a side engaging clamp is connected to the hold down clamp and presses upon the hood in the hooked relation of the clamp. This lever is apt to obstruct the closing of the hood, and for this reason care must be taken to place it out of the path of the hood before closing the latter. It is proposed in the present embodiment to provide cam means actuated by the spring of the hold down clamp for positively moving and firmly retaining both the side engaging clamp and the hold down clamp in a predetermined position out of the path of the hood in the disengaged relation. A further object is to provide a simple and reliable construction, and one which will not add materially to the cost of manufacture over the previously known types.

With the above and other objects in View, an embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, and this embodiment willbe hereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and the invention will be finally pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a hood catch, partly in section, according to the present embodiment of the invention, and showing the same in clamped relation.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the same disengaged. V

Fig. 3 is an elevation seenfrom the hood side, the clamp being in the same relation as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the keeper employed.

Simllar reference characters lndlcate corresponding parts throughout the several fig ures of the drawings. 7 Referring to the drawings, the hood catch, according to the present embodiment of the invention, consists of a cylindrical barrel 10, flanged at its lower end, as at 11, to provide a reduced passage in which the rod 12 is slidably engaged, the end ofthe rod within the barrel being provided with a washer 13, between which and the flange 11 a spring 14 is coiled about the rod. A cap 15 having a clamping hook 16 and handle 17 integrally formed therewith is screwed upon the upper end of the barrel. 7

At its lower end the rod is provided with an eye 18, and is pivotally connected between the side portions of the side engaging clamp by means of a riveted pivot pin 19. The side engaging clamp comprises a forward portion 20 having a bumper formation 21 pressed therein, and spaced parallel side portions 22 bent rearwardly therefrom, and which are pivotally mounted upon a bracket 23 by means of a pin 24. The outer ends of the sideportions, beyond the rod 12, are rigidly connected and spaced by a transverse shouldered rivet pin 25.

The spacing of the side portions is such that their upper flat edges 26-26 provide a support against which the lower end of the barrel seats in the disengaged position, as shown in Fig. 2, being yieldably held by the action of the spring 14. I

'The bracket is provided between the side portions with an upstanding finger wedge portion27, the inner surface of which is so arranged as to abut the forward portion 20 of the lever in the disengaged position, while the outer surface engages the lower end portion of the barrel 10 with a wedging fit under the action of the spring 14, the barrel being disposed at a converging angle with respect to the forward portion 20 in said disengaged position.

The finger is rounded, as at 28, to cooperate V with the rounded end of the barrel with a cam action, so as to insure the outward swinging of" the bumper lever.

In the disengaged position, the barrel and side engaging clamp are yieldably but firmly supported in a predetermined position out of the opening and closing path of the hood, and out of engagement with the sill surface.

The hook 16 of the catch is adapted to engage a keeper 29 secured upon the hood, while the bumper portion 21- is pressed inwardly against an abutmentportion 30 formed integrally at the lower end of the keeper plate 31.

\ ed by said hold down clamp and said side engaging clamp to retain them in a predetermined position in, the disengaged relation of said hold down clamp under the spring pressure of said hold down clamp.

2-. In a hood catch, a spring pressed hold down clamp, a pivotally mounted side engaging clamp pivotally connected thereto at a point removed from the pivot mounting of said side engaging clamp, and positioning means adapted to be contacted by said side engaging clamp to limit its outward movement'in the disengaged relation and to be contacted by said hold down clamp to limit the inward movement of said side engaging clamp in said disengaged relation .under the spring pressure of said hold down clamp.

3. In a hood catch, a base, a side engaging clampv pivotally mounted on said base, a spring pressed hold down clamp pivotally connected to said side engaging clamp at a point removed from the pivot mounting of said side engaging clamp, and positioning means on said base adapted to be interposed between said side engaging clamp and said hold down clamp intheir disengaged relation to retain them in a predetermined position under the spring pressure of said hold down clamp.

4. In a hood catch, a base, a side engaging clamp pivotally mounted on said base, a hold down clamp comprising a rod pivotally connected to said side engaging clamp, a barrel slidably mounted on said rod, and a spring interposed between said rod and barrel and adapted to drawthe'latter downwardly on said rod, and means on said base adapted to beengaged. at oneiside by said side engaging clamp to limit its outward movement in dis engaged relation and to be engagedat its othenside by said barrel, as itis drawn downwardly on said rod, to prevent the inward movement of said side engaging clamp in said disengaged relation.

5. In a hood catch, a base, a side engaging clamp pivotally mounted on said base, a hold down clamp comprising. a rod pivotally connected to said side engaging clamp, a barrel slidably mounted on said rod, and a spring interposed between said rod and barrel and adaptedto draw the latterdownwardly'on said rod, said barrel adapted to be engaged with said side engaging clamp in its downwardly drawn disengaged relation whereby relative pivotal movement of said rod with respect to said side engaging clamp is prevented, andmeans on; said baseadapted to be engaged at one sideby said side, engaging clamp tolimit its, outward movement indisengaged relation, .andtobe engaged at its other side by said barrel, as it is drawn downwardly on said rod,-to prevent the inward movement of said sideengagingclamp in said disengaged relation.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield, State ofConnecticut, this 5th day ofNovember,1929.

RAYMOND G. MQORE.

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