US206314A

US206314A - Improvement in gates

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Publication number: US206314A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1878-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1895-07-23

Description

J. GREIG.

Gate.

Patented July 23; 1878.

v WITNESSES ATTORNEY TERS. PNOI'D-LITHQGRAPHER, WASHINGTON u C UNITED STATES PATENT Orr-Ion.

JOIIL GItElGr, OF MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,314, dated July 23, 187'?- application filed June 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, JOHN GREIG-,of Morris, in the county of Grundy and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side View of my improved gate. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same opened; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the open frame, showing the gate in section.

The nature of the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in connection with a gate and its bars, of a post, having a swinging hanger provided with a central roller, and a horizontal guide bar seated in a groove in the hanger and extendin g on each side thereof, and one of the bars of the gate bearing against said guide-bar and the roller of the hanger, as will be hereinafter more fully shown and described.

I11 the annexed drawings, the letter A indicates a swinging and sliding gate, e011- structed with horizontal bars 12, secured at their ends and middle portion to vertical bars m. B represents the gate-post, having hinged thereto the open box or frame 0, consisting of the vertical bars a and I), connected at their ends and provided with the roller (1, which is pivoted between said bars at the proper height to form a bearing for the rail a of the gate, which rests and moves thereon through the open box or frame.

0 is the friction-preventing guide, which is a small horizontal bar secured to the inside of the bar a of the swinging frame, parallel with the gate and above the roller sufficiently to bear against the side of the rail a, which rests on said roller. This horizontal bar 0 extends on each side of the frame A in the form of arms, and is designed to prevent undue binding and friction of the gate against the vertical bars of the swinging frame as the gaterail moves between them, which is accomplished by the bearing of the projecting ends or arms of said bar against the bearing-rail a of the gate, which rests on the roller in the frame. It serves also as a lever to assist in turning the hinged frame or fulcrum in the operation of swinging the gate around. In this operation the lateral bearing-surface of the gate is confined to that portion of the bar a which bears against the guide and friction preventer c, which, having a smooth and horizontally-extended surface always presented to said bar, keeps the roller opening square to the gate, and thereby effects a free sliding motion, when otherwise the gate would bind in its turning and sliding movements against the diagonally-opposite corners of the bars of the swinging box or frame.

This guide may be secured in a dovetail notch in the side of the frame-bar, or otherwise, as may be desired.

I am aware that a swinging or hinged frame for a sliding gate is not new, and that a roller has been used to form the bearing for a sliding gate, and therefore I do not claim, broad- 1y, such devices; but

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a sliding and swinging gate, A, having bars a a, of the post I having the swinging hanger G, provided with a central roller, (1, the horizontal guide-bar a, seated in a groove of the hanger and extending on each side thereof, the bar a, bearing against said guide-bar c, and the roller d of the hanger, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN (2 KING.

Witnesses:

H. B. Fosrnn, F. B. MALconn.