US313457A

US313457A - Samuel tubek

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Publication number: US313457A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-03-03

Description

S. TUERK.

LOCK HINGE.

(No Model.)

Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

jmdeniam;

UNrrn SAMUEL TUERK, OF CHICAGO, ILL, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, MOSES RUBEL, ISAAC HIRSOH, AND JAMES B. GALLOIVAY, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

LOCK- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,457, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed September 8, 1884. (No model.)

550 a. whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL TUERK, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hinges, of which the following is a full description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an elevation showing my hinge applied to a door. Fig. 2 is a top view of the hinge closed. Fig. 3 is a top view of the hinge open. Fig. at is an elevation of the hinge open, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an inside View of the hinge open, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail; Figs. 6 and 7, modifications of the hinge; Fig. 8, a modification of the spring; Fig. 9, a modification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved device for holding doors, hinged covers, &c., open or partly open in a given position, which I accomplish by providing one leaf of an ordinary butt-hinge with a hinged arm which extends through an opening in the other leaf of the hinge, and is adapted to engage with aspring locatedin a socket, which may be either in the door or casing, as illustrated in the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents a piece of door, and B a door-casing.

O D are two leaves of a butt-hinge.

Eis an arm pivoted to the inside of the leaf 0. This arm extends through an opening, a, through the leaf D. Its outer and free end is provided with a projection, b, which prevents that end of the arm from passing through the opening in D.

0' is a recess in the leaf D, to receive the ears (1 upon the leaf 0, to which, as shown, one end of the arm E is pivoted.

F is a channel, open upon one side, as shown, which may be cast upon and with the leaf D. e is a spring secured to the inside of the channel F and on one side thereof.

One end of the arm E can be passed through the opening a, and then pivoted to the ears (I.

In use the hinge is to be applied to a door in the usual manner, except that either the casing or the door is to be provided with a socket to receive the channel F. As shown in Fig. I, this channel is located in the doorcasing B. WVhen the door is closed, the parts will be in the position shown in Fig. 2. If the door be opened, so as to stand at right angles with the casing, the parts will be brought into the position shown in Fig. 3, the

free end of the arm E passing along over the spring 6 to the free end thereof, and the door. will be held open in that position, requiring considerable force to close it. When the door is closed, the free end of the arm E will ride over the projecting part of the spring and force it down. The force which may be required to close the door when it is open will depend upon the strength of the spring 6.

The form of the spring may be substantially 6 5 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 when it is only desiredto hold the door open at one point. By giving the spring two bends, as shown in Fig. 8, it will be adapted to hold the door either partly open or entirely open. When the door is only partly open, the free end of the arm E will be at the point 9, Fig. 8, and then it will require force either to farther open or to close the door.

By making a slight change my improved In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown two 8 Instead of pivoting one end of the arm E to 8 the opposite leaf, H, of the hinge, Iprovide such leaf H with a fixed short pintle, 2 so arranged that when the pintle j of the hinge H enters the socket provided for it in the leaf G the pintle i will enter the hole h in the arm 0 E,thus connecting one end of the arm E with the leaf H.

7c is a recess in the leafH for the end of the arm E. In Figs. 6 and 7 the two parts of the hinge are shown bottom side up, in order to 5 keep the leaf which is provided with the channel F in the same relative position as in the other figures. v

I think it advisable to cast the part F with one leaf of the hinge; but this part might b ICO made separate from the hinge, as shown in spring, 6, located either in the door or casing, Fig. 9, and placed either in the door-easing with which spring the free end of the arm E 10 or the door. engages, substantially as and for the purpose What I claim as new, and desire to secure specified. 5 by Letters Patent, is SAMUEL TUERK.

In combination with the leaves of a hinge, Witnesses: an arm, E, hinged to one leaf and passing H. M. MUNDAY,

through an opening in the other leaf, and a ALBERT H. ADAMS.