US222786A - Improvement in sliding and swinging gate hinges - Google Patents

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-A. H-.-HUGKABA. Sliding and Swinging Gate-Hinge.-

No. 222,786. Pat ented Deb; 23, 1 19..

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"rrrrnsj PATENI ALBERT I51. HUC-KABA, or CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,786, dated December 23, 1879; application filed August 29, 1879.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. HUOKABA, of Charleston, Goles county, State of Illinois, have invented Improvements in Sliding and Swinging Gate Hinges, of which the following is the specification.

0n reference to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the gate, one of its posts beingpartlyin section to show mortises therein; and Fig. 2 is a perspective of one post, to which is connected the frame on which the gate slides and swings.

My invention relates to sliding and swin ging gates; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly specified.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A refers to the gate, which is framed of longitudinal and vertical bars crossing each other, the longitudinal bars projecting at one end beyond the vertical bars, so as to form tenons B, that are to fit, when the gate is closed, into mortises 0, formed in one of the gate-posts, while the top longitudinal bar has secured to it by. any suitable means a pin or block about midway of its length, the object thereof being to limit the slide of the gate so that it may be checked at a point where it will be balanced on its bearing. Instead of having this block on the top rail it may be on the rail next below the top, and so placed thereon that it will strike post F when the gate is slid open, and in that way discharge the same function as when on the top rail, possessing the advantage of relieving the swivel-pin of any undue strain. The other post, F, has connected to its upper portion a frame, Gr,cast or otherwise formed of metal, and consisting of two brackets or segmental rings, H I, and an angleiron, J, the ends of said rings uniting with the angle-iron near its ends, and the iron is bolted, nailed, screwed, or otherwise fastened to the two sides of the post, by which, construetion and attachment the weight of the gate suspended on said frame is distributed across the post, and any undue strain on any one pointprevented. Both of these segmental rings have holes formed in them, and a swiv el-pin, K, is passed therethrough. The top or head of said pin is forked, and the shoulder thereof rests on the upper ring.

The two forks of theswivel-pin are longitudinally grooved on their inner faces, and the journals of a roller, L, fit therein, the grooves constituting guides and bearings for the roller. This swivel is made separate from the frame and can be readily detached therefrom whenever found necessary, and both frame and pin, by reason of the simplicity of their construction, can be made at a trifling cost. Instead of forming the forks of the swivel-pin with grooves, as described, the axles of the roller may be passed through openings formed in the forks.

The gate, made as described, is connected to the frame by setting the top bar of the gate into the fork of the swivel, the bar resting on the roller therein, and the bar next below the top one usually passing under the lower ring, by which means, when the gate is in a vertical position, it is prevented from being lifted out of the fork of the swivel.

A book or an angleiron, M, is driven into or otherwise secured to post F, preferably, but unnecessarily, at a point next to the second rail from bottom of the gate, the said hook or iron projecting therefrom, so that one of the gate-bars will fit between its upturned end and the posts, whereby the iron is constituted a guide and. support for the gate, what ever may be the angle to which it is turned.

A post or block, N, with a roller in its top, is set into the ground between the two gateposts forward of theupper support, so that the bottom rail of the gate, when closed, may rest thereon, and the gate be thereby somewhat supported when not balanced on its hinge.

In operation, when the gate is to be opened it is slid to one side until the block on the top bar strikes the swivel-pin on the supporting frame, or else the post F, when the check-block is on a lower rail, which brings the gate to a pivotal position, when it can be swung to one side without dragging on the ground. In closing, the operation is the reverse of that described, the tenons on the end entering the mortises in the post next thereto, and holding the gate closed until slid back from contact therewith.

1 am aware that in fiat-back hinge brackets, and similar articles, it is common to widen the horizontal portions as they approach the rF-Icn' bracket has ever been made with projections and swivel-pin turning in said segments and constructed to make one wing of the anglecarrying a roller all as set forth.

iron brace the other. 7 In testimony whereof I have signed my 1 do not claim a pivoted hinge-post carrying name to this specification in the presence of the roller on which the gate slides, nor a J two subscribing'witnesses.

back but I am not aware that an angleiron I of the angle-iron and centrally perforated,

bracket consistim of an an -leiron with a x socketed projeetioi for the pos t; but ALBERT HUQKA I claim- Witnesses:

The hinge consisting of the angle iron JOHN P. HARRAH, brackets orsegnlents extending to the wings ELIAS BURTON.

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