US279526A - Door-hanger - Google Patents

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Patented June 19 1883 wr. T5 Il W. F. BERRY. DOOR HANGER N. Ferias. Pham-Lanwgnphe. wnmngum u. c4

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W. I'. BERRY.

DOOR HANGER.

Njq'. 279,526. Patented June 19,1883.

UNITED STATES 1 PATENT OFFICE.

VILBUR F. BERRY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,526, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed April 8, 1882. (No model.)

` citizen of the United States of America, re-

`arranged above the door.

siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation of a door hung by means of my improved hangers. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same viewed in the direction of the rear edge of the door, the walls being shown in trans verse section. Fig. 8 is a detail, the same being a top view of the bar connecting the sheaves and supporting the guide-rollers. Fig. 4 is a detail of the same, being atop view of the lower guide-wheel and its screw. Fig. is a side elevation ofthe hanger somewhat modified to adapt it for hanging barn-doors. Fig. 6 is a section in the plane of the line w x, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow there shown; and Fig. 7 is a 'section in the plane of the line y y, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to thatelass of doorhangers in which the doors are suspended by means of depending hanger-rods operating in connection with sheaves supported on tracks My present purpose .is to provide suitable means for prevent` sheaves on their tracks orvways. I also aim to prevent the warping of the doors and to adapt hangers of this class to be used with advantage for hanging barn-doors. For the purpose of accomplishing these several, 0bjeets, I employ the meanshereinafter setforth, and particularlypointed out in my claims.

A represents the` door, and B the wall in which it is arranged.

CC are door-plates applied to the upper corners of the door.

D'D are parallel'ways or tracks arranged liorizontally above the door.

E E are the sheaves, mounted on the said tracks, and F F are hanger-rods depending from the sheavc-axles G G and entering the plates C C. The sheaves, the track, the hanger-rods, and the door-plates, constructed and applied in various ways, have heretofore been employed for hanging doors; and the particular construction which I have shown in the drawings I have elsewhere described, and do not, therefore, here intend to claiin the same, broadly, as my present invention, as before stated, relates in part to the means employed for preventing the lateral movement or wabbling motion of the sheaves upon their tracks or ways, whichv means I will now proceed to describe.

H is arod or bar connecting the axles G G, and I I are horizontally-arrangedwheels mounted and turning on the said bar. In diameter these wheels are such as to till or very nearly fill or extend across the space in which the sheaves roll, and the sides of the framework which inclose that space, and against which the perimeters of the wheels I I will bear. if the sheaves n'iove laterally or wabble very slightly, should be smooth and straight. It will be perceived, therefore, that the slightest tendency of the sheaves to wabble or move laterally will be overcome by the contact of the wheels I I with the sides of the recess in which the sheaves move.

In the figures shown the l1anger-rods F F pass through scmicircular nuts FF',` located in a circular opening in the sheave-axle, thereby permitting the said axle to tilt slightly when the sheaves run over an uneven track, without a corresponding displacement ofthe door.

In order to apply the bar H and wheels I I for use in connection with hangers so made, I make the ends of the rod or bar half-round or semi-cylilulrical, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that these ends may enter the semicireular part of the openings not filled by the nuts F F; and to connect the sheave-axles to each other by means of these bars, I make in one end of each bar a circular opening, (l, and in the other end a slot, e. By this means thehanger-rods FF, after passing through the nuts F F, may pass through the openings c and a. By employing the slot a', less nicety of construction and ad justment results in. arranging the parts together, although a circular Vopening may be employed in the place of the slot c', if deemed best. The bars H H, however, may be arranged uponthe sheave-axles, instead of entering them, au d the form of the sai d bars,.wh ether IOO at the ends or at the intermediate parts, may be varied, as may be either necessary or vdesirable.

Another feature of my invention relates to the means employed for preventing the warping of the door. For this purpose I screw into the rear edge of the door a screw-pin, J, and on the outer end or part of this screw I mount a horizontally-arran ged wheel or roller, K, iilling or very near extending across the recess inr which the door moves, as indicated in Figs. l and 2. By this means the door, as will be per ceived, will be prevented from warping at its inner or lower corner,where it has heretofore been free, or without means for preventing its lateral movement there without also binding on some other part. The wheel K, as is obvious, prevents such binding in case the door tends to warp, for the wheel will rotate against the wall to which it is then carried. To preventv the wheel K from tilting on its aXis,I apply to the rear edge of the door a block or projection, L, arranged just above the wheel, as:

shown in Figs. l and 2.

c To adapt hangers of this class to be applied to barn-doors without much expense, I employ a rail, M, which I locate on the interior ofthe wall and above the door, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. This track I arrange horizontally, and its form is such as to form a groove or channel between the wall and that part of the track on which the perimeters ofthe sheaves rest. In this case I employ a single sheave in connection with each hanger rod, and the sheaves are iianged, and the flanges are so arranged as to run or move in the grooves b b. The axles of these sheaves I connect, as before described, by means of rods or bars H H, on which are wheels I I. It should be stated that when the bars H H are arranged upon the sheave-aXles, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, the

rod or bar H should be shouldered, as shown at c, Fig. 5 so as to prevent the rod or bar from slipping back or forth longitudinally on the axles. In other respects the hanger may be constructed and applied in the manner already -on the track.

described, or in any well-knownor suitable way. i .5

The wheel or roller Kfas will be perceived,

when applied to abarn-door hung in the man ner shown and described, will prevent the lowv er edge .of the door from swinging outward against the wall or ceiling of the barn. The wheels I I will prevent the sheaves from contact with and from binding against the outside ofthe barn, while the iianges will keep them The wheels I I, in connection with the flanges, will also tend to prevent the door from swinging inward or away from the ceiling. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-f l. The combination, in a door-hanger, of the' sheaves E E, the rod or bar H, connecting the axles G G of the sheaves, and the horizontallyarranged guide-wh eels I I,mounted on the said bar or rod and arranged to ride in the sheave way or recess, substantially as and for the purw poses specified.

2. The co1nbination,with a suspended door, of a horizontally-arranged wheel or roller, K, applied to the lower .rear part of the door, when the said door moves in a recess, and when the said wheel extends across or nearly across the said recess, substantially as and for the purpose speciied.

3. In a door-hanger in which there are sheaves, hanger-bars, and door-plates for suspending th e door, the combination, with the single sheave rail or track M, applied to the building, ofthe connecting rod or bar H and the horizontallyarranged wheels I I and K,when the said rods are connected each to a single sheave adapted to ride upon the said track, and when the wheel K is applied to the lower inner part of the door, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

TILBUR F. BERRY.

Vitn esses;

F. F. VARNER, Gno. L. IWICBRIDE.

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