US290646A

US290646A - loveland

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Publication number: US290646A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1900-12-18

Description

(No Model.)

'L. N. LOVELAND.'

GATE.

No. 290,646. Patented Dec. 18, 188,3.

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LUCIUS N. LOVELAND, OF NEW HAVEN, INDIANA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,646, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed March 5, 1883. (No model.)

ro has for its object to provide a gate of this class possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity and inexpensiveness in construe! tion, and general convenience and efficiency in operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective 4view of my improved gate closed. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section, illustrating the operation of the gate in dotted lines. Fig. 4. is a vertical 2o cross-section of the gate, taken on the line x w,

Fig. 3, and looking toward the free swinging end of the gate.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the gate, which can be, in the main, of any suit- 2 5 able construction, and is provided with a pivotal bearing, B, on a base-block, C, arranged between two uprights or posts, D D, at the hinge end of the gate. These posts D D are connected at their top by a cross-piece, E, in

3o which is formed a notch, F, that receives the suspension-wire strand G, which extends from the said notch down at each side of the gate, as shown at H H, and is secured at its lower ends, I I, to the bottom` of a lever, J, that is 55 fulcrumed on the gate, as shown at K. Vhen this lever is thrown back at its top operating end toward the pivot end of the gate, the suspension-wires are tightened, so as to raise the free swinging end of the gate, and allow it to 4o swing over the catch L, that projects from the side of an end post, INI. Vhen the gate is closed, the projecting end N of one of its rails rests on this said catch, and supports the swinging end of the gate, to obviate sagging of the posts D D 5 but should sagging ensue from any cause,

the consequent slack of the suspension-wires can be taken up by means of moving the small bail O forward. This bail supports the wires at each side the gate and extends up over the latter, it being preferably received into one of a series of notches, P, in the top edge of the rail Q at the top of the gate. The point of suspension of the gate should be in line with the gate when entirely open back at right angles to its normal closed position; but it should be back of the vertical plane of the pivot of the gate. By this arrangement the gate will be at rest when it is entirely open; but when only part way open the gate will automatically swing into closed position.

R is a wire bail or loop, that passes under one of the lower rails, S, of the gate, and has its ends T T brought up at each side the latter and secured to a cross pin or bolt, U, to which the suspension-strands H H are also secured. This bail or loop R is received into any one of a series of notches, V, in the under edge of the rail S, and by adjusting the same in these notches the tension of the strands H H on the lever can be regulated to govern the operation of the said lever to effect the latch movement of gate. By this mechanism the free and easy operation of the latch movement can be secured, and the same be accurately adj usted.

I claim as my invention- The gate having the rail S, provided with lower end of the lever upto the hinge-posts, the transverse pin or bolt U, connected to the suspension-wires near where they are secured to the lever, and the bail or loop R, passing under the rail S and engaging the notches on the same, and having its ends passing up and secured to the ends of the pin U, whereby when the lever is operated the wires are tightened and lift the gate over the catch, and when the lever is released the wires become loosened and permit the gate to drop into the catch, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUGIUS N. LOVELAND.

Witnesses:

H. M. LovnLAND, D. J. SPENCER.