US1940038A - Latch or hinge attachment - Google Patents

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Dec. 19, 1933. A. F. WINTERS LAICH 0R HINGE ATTACHMENT Filed July 14, 1930 lexcmer lllllllillllllfl1111111., --mm I Patented Dec. 19, 1933 UNI'Tf-1I STAY-'res Y v .LATCH on 1,940,038( HINGE ATTACHMENT v Alexander" F. winters, Grand Rapids, `Minnessignor to Winters Company;

Michigan v&V Crampton yManuiacturing if Grandville, Mich.,l a corporation oi' Appieathion July 14, 1930. serialNo.` 467,778; 4 claims. (Grieg-12s) This invention relates to a novel improvement in the attachment of latches or hinges'to refrigerators 'or other constructions which carry doors, and in`which,`heretofore, the hingeorlatch? has 5 been snugly held against'the finished outer surface of the refrigerator or other structure. By reason of the pressure exerted by the ,hinges or latches, and particularly when the same are made from sheet metal with marginal vinturned flanges @1Q the edges of which bear directly against the finished outer surfaces, there has been a considerable liabilityof `injury to such nished surfaces. This is particularly true-with refrigerators which in many cases are made with a porcelain outer 15 surface which under the `pressure of the inturned anges of latches or hinges, is liable to chip or crack with a resultant exposure of the material under theporcelain which is very undesirable.

The latches-or hinges are in practically all instances attached by means of screws or equivalent fastenings which pass through openings in the hinge parts or the latch housings into the body of the door and/or door frame to which the same are attached. It is very desirablethat said openings shall be countersunk so as to receive at least a part of the heads of the countersunk attaching screws or other attaching mea'nsused. `With my invention supporting members or devices are l0-Y cated at the inner sides of the hinge parts or latch housing under and around the screw pass ing openings and are permanently secured thereto by an operation which at the Sametime countersinksthe 'screwopenings. l

' The undersides of the said devices` are spaced far enough from the plane of the edges of the inturned marginal flanges of the hinge parts or latch housings that when the same are applied against the outer surface of a door or door frame and bear thereon, such marginal inturned flange 40 portions of the hinge parts or latch housing are held slightlyaway from the surface of the door and door frame and do not engage thereagainst, all of the pressure being taken by said devices A which are underneath the hinge parts or the latch housing, completely covered and disguised thereby and any injury which may occur to theporcelain or other finish of the door or door frame is' completely covered by the hinge or latch and is never apparent.

The invention which I have made is of a simple but exceedingly practical form and has proved particularly satisfactory. vWith it the advantages above enumerated are obtained in fullest measure. V

An understanding of the invention and of the v Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section through a door structure embodying the same may be had from the following "description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which, l

Fig. l is an inner side view of a hinge equipped with the devices of my invention. Y 60 and adjacent door frarneshowing the hinge appliedthereto and its outer edge portions held away from the outer iinished surfaces of said door and frame. V

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section illustratingonelof said supporting and spacing devices prior to lits attachment to a hinge member or latch housing, and

Fig. 4 is a similar view illustrating the con- 70 struction after the connection has been fmade.

I Like reference `characters refer to like parts in the different figures of the drawing.

While in the disclosure made, the invention is shown applied to a hinge, it is to be understood that it is'applicable to any structure which is to be attached by means'of screws passing therethrough to the body or member to which said structure is to be secured', and is particularly applicable where the parts attached by screws are made-ofsheet metal.` The hinge as shown comprises two hinge members '1* and 2, from the latter of which spaced apart posts 3 extend, the hinge member 1 being pivotally connected to the post by a pivot pin or rod 4. The structure of the hinge as to the pivotal connection ofthe two hinge parts or members 1 and 2 is no part of the present invention but is disclosed and claimed in a patent to Carl Geske, No. 1,895,658, January 31, 1933. Y 9o The hinge members 1 Vand 2 are of sheet metal and at their marginal edges are formed with inwardly -turnedflanges 5. Said hinge members are to be secured to a door and doorframe by means of .screws passing through a plurality of openings in the hinge members. Each of said openings is surrounded by an inwardly extending integral coiiar or sleeve 6 pressed from the member when 4the opening is made. The devices of my invention are each formed from sheet metal with an annular base or bottom 7, an outer upwardly extending sleeve 8 at the outer edges of the bottom 7, and an inner upwardly extending sleeve 9 which surrounds a central opening made r l through the bottom 7. Sleeve 9 is of an exterior 105 diameter to pass within the downwardly extending sleeve 6 around a screw passing opening through the hinge member; while the outer cylindrical sleeve 8 is around and at the outer side of said depending sleeve 6.

The connection of the device to the hinge member (or latch housing) is made by placing said device upon a support such as a punch press or drill bed and then either pressing or spinning the material of the hinge member and of the inner sleeve 9 outwardly using a punch or spinning tool, as shown in Fig. 3. This causes the upper end portion of the interior sleeve9 tobe pressed or spun outwardly at an angle,'as indicated at 10, and presses the same into the annular recess 6a of sleeve 6, while the material of the hinge member around the screw passing opening, as indicated at 11, with the part 10, makes a very practical countersink to receive the inner side of countersunk screws or bolts or the like.

When the hinge or other appliance equipped with the devices of my invention at the inner side around each of the screw passing openings is applied to a door and/or door frame, both indicated at 12 in Fig. 2, the lower side of the bottoms 7 of said devices bear against the finished vouter surface of the door and door frame and as the lower plane of the bottoms 7 extends beyond the plane of the inner edges of the flanges 5, it is evident that said flanges will not bear with pressure against the finished outer surface of the door or ,door frame. In Fig. 2 this space which is left between the outer finished surfaces of `the parts 12 and the inner edges of the flanges 5 is considerably exaggerated for purposes of better disclosure. In practice said edges of the flanges 5 will lie quite closely to the outer surfaces of the members 12 but be held therefrom so as to exert no pressure thereon.v

Porcelain is indicated as the outer finish surface of the door and door frame members 12 in Fig. 2; and with refrigerators this is 'used at the present time to a large extent. However, the invention is not limited in use to porcelain covered refrigerators, but is of valuek in-protecting and saving from injury and disgurement the flnyished outer surfaces of not only refrigerators, but manyother articles which mount doors by means of hinges and on which doors latches-having sheet metal housings may be used. The invention, as Apreviously stated, is particularly practical and useful. It is defined in the appended claims and -is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. vA lmember of sheet metal having inturned yflanges at its edges, and an opening therethrough surrounded by an inwardly extending integral sleeve,'and a'supporting and spacing device located at the inner side of lsaid member comprising,l an annularbase with a central opening therethrough, outer and inner sleeves extending therefrom in the same direction, one around said open- -ing in the device and one at the edges of said base, said inner sleeve lying within the first mentioned sleeve extending from said member, and means interlocking said inner sleeve and first vmentioned sleeve on the member together and with the surface of the bottom of said device located in a plane beyondl the plane of the edges of said inturned flanges on said member.

2. A member of metal having inturned flanges at its edges and having an opening therethrough, a sleeve integral with said member around said opening extending therefrom in the same direction as saidanges, and a spacing and supporting device secured to said sleeve, having a bottom to bear upon an article to which said member is to be attached, the bottom and the free edges of said flanges being located in different planes whereby when said member is attached, the free edges of said flanges are held from pressing against the surface of the article to which it is attached.

3. A member of flat metal having flanges at its edges and having a countersunk opening, a sleeve integral with said member extending therefrom Aaround said opening in the same direction as said flanges a supporting and spacing ldevice having a flat bottom with an opening therethrough and a sleeve extending from said bottom around the opening therein, into the sleeve of said member, and means providing interlocking permanent connection ofthe sleeves together comprising a portion on said second named sleeve vpressed into the metal of the rst sleeve, the countersunk portion of said opening in the member and the inner side of said pressed portion of the second named sleeve having sides substantially flush, said bottom at the free side thereof and the free edges of said flanges being disposed in different planes parallel and closely adjacent each other, for the purposes specified. l

4. A device of the class described having a frangible surface, the combination of, a member adapted to be positioned immediately adjacentv said -frangible surface and attached thereto, said member having an inwardly extending flange around its outer edge, said member also having openings therethrough `spaced from its edge, a plurality of means adjacentrsaid openings and extending inwardly toward and abutting against thesaid frangible surface, said last mentioned `plurality of means being of the'same length and of suflicient length to prevent contact between the flangeV on the member and the frangible surface and being located in spaced relationship with respect to the flange, saidzflange concealing the spacing means and also concealing a considerable portionof the fran'gible surface around the said spacing means for the purpose described.

ALEXANDER F. WINTERS.

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