US343994A

US343994A - Door-hanger

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Publication number: US343994A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-06-22
Anticipated expiration: 1903-06-22

Description

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A. J. IVES.

DOOR HANGER.

Patented June 22, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcs.

ALBERT JULIUS IVES, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,994, dated June 22, 1886.

Application filed April 10, ISEG. Serial No. 198,464.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT J ULIUs Ivns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hangers for sliding doors; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The object of my invention is to provide a hanger for sliding doors adapted to raise or lower the door slightly from the suspending track-rail, and thus prevent the door from binding, and enabling it to be readily opened I or closed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hanger embodying my improvements attached to the upper edge of a door. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation of the doorhanger detached from the door. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the plate for locking the hanger to the top of the door.

A represents the sliding door, and B represents the usual supporting track-rails, which are secured in the top of the frame above the top of the door.

0 represents the lockingplate, which is screwed to the top edge of the door. This plate is recessed on its under side, as at a, and is provided on its upper side with rectangular openings 1), which communicate with one end of the recesses a. Open slots 0 are also made in the locking-plate, the said slots communicating at one end with the openings 1), as shown in Fig. 4.

D represents the hanger, which is composed of the upper section, 0, and the lower section, (I. The opposing edges or sides of the upper and lower sections are beveled or inclined, as shown, thereby making the said sections triangular in shape. The lower section, (I, is

provided on its upper edge on one side with a groove, f, and communicating with this groove at the center of the upper side of the lower section is an elongated slot, 9. At the lower end of the inclined upper side of the sec- (ModeL) tion d is a projecting bracket, h, and at the outer end of the lower section is a projection or stud, i.

70 represents an angle-plate, which is mortised in one edge of the door and secured there to by means of screws, the said plate having at its upper end a 'horizontal arm, Z, which bears on the upper side of the stud i. From the lower side of the lowersection of the hanger depend studs m, which are provided with rectangular heads 11, adapted to fit the openings 1) of the plate 0. The shanks o of the stud are adapted to enter the slots 0 of the plate 0, and thereby lock the heads in on the under sides or recesses of the said plate, and thus secure the hanger firmly to the top of the door. The upper section, 6, of the hanger is provided on its lower inclined side with an inwardlyextending tongue, 1), which enters the groove f on the section 6. A screw, 1", extends through the slot 9 and enters the tongue 1), and thereby secures the upper section of the hanger firmly to the lower section thereof, and permitting the said upper section to be moved back and forth on the lower section a distance corresponding to the length of the slot As the opposing edges of the upper and lower sections of the hanger are beveled, it follows that when the upper section is moved in one direction on the lower section the said upper section is raised, and when the latter is moved in the opposite direction the said upper section is lowered, thus rendering the hanger vertically adj ustable. The upper section of the hanger carries the usual rollers, S, which bear on the upper sides of the suspending track-rails B, and thus suspend the sliding door from the said rails, and enabling it to be readily opened or closed.

t represents an adj usting-scrcw, which is swiveled in an opening in the upper end of the bracket h of the lower section, and the threaded portion of the said adj listing-screw works in a threaded opening, a, which is made in one end of the section 6. By turning this screw in one direction the upper section is moved upwardly on the lower section, and by turning the said screw in .the reverse direction the contrary result is effected. By this construction it will be readily understood that the sliding door may be slightly raised or lowered to preventit from binding against the upper or lower ICO portion of the door-frame when the door swells through the slot 9 and entering the tongue, and under certain atmospheric conditions, thus enthe adj usting-screw swiveled in the bracket h, I 5 abiing the door to be readily opened or closed and engaging the threaded opening u in the t at all times. upper section, for the purpose set forth, sub- 5 Having thus described my invention, I stantiaiiy as described.

claim- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as The combination of the lower sectiun,d,havmy own I have hereto affixed my signature in 20 ing the bracket h at one end, and the inclined presence of two witnesses. upper side provided with the groove f and the 0 slot 9, and the upper section, 6, carrying the ALBERT JULIUS IVES supporting-rollers, and having its lower side Witnesses: inclined and provided with a tongue, 1), to en- M. O. SOUTHWORTH,

ter the groove f, the set-screw r, passing I CHAS. R. CURRIER.