US347748A

US347748A - Barn-door fastener

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Publication number: US347748A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-08-17
Anticipated expiration: 1903-08-17

Description

(No Model.) 1

J. S. TROUT.

BARN DOOR FASTENBR.

No.347,'748; PatentedAug.fl7,-1886 Iii; '11

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" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOBS. TBOUT,QF LANDISVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BARN-DOOR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,748, dated August 17, 1886.

Application filed May 15, 1886.

and along their edge to hold them firmly together, and also to dispense with the easilybroken swinging pole often used on barnd oors. I attain these objects by the construct on illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 represents the interior of a portion of a barn adjacent to its doors and the latter closed and fastened together in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, showing the doors closed, but unfastened in full lines, and also fastened by the retaining pole and hook, shown in dotted lines.

In said drawings, A represents a portion of the frame of a barn forming the door-opening thereof. To the uprights of said frame are hinged at b, the doors B and B ,constructed, as usual, of boards secured together by battens b and b to which the hinges bare preferably secured. They also have the diagonal braces b, to prevent sagging of said doors.

To secure the doors together and to the frame of the barn, apole,'C, preferably square in cross-seotion,is connected with the door B by hinges 0, preferably secured to the battens b of said door, so that said pole can be swung against the door B to secure the whole edges of the doors together, as shown in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2, or swung back against its supporting-door B, as shown in full lines in other suitable lock.

Serial No. 202,297. (No model.)

Fig. 2, when the doors are to be opened. When the pole is swungoutwardly to secure the doors together, the upper end of said pole bears against a small block, a, pendent from the upper beam of the door frame, and the lower end of the pole bears against a similar block, a, projecting from the sill of the barn or from the ground upon which it is built.

In place of the latter block,a", the lower end of the pole may carry a vertically-sliding bolt to enter a perforationin the sill, and said bolt may be the only fastening needed to retain the door B or both doors closed; but I prefer to use a hook, d, pivoted to a staple driven 'in the side of the pole and having its hooked end engaging with another staple, e, driven in the doors B. In place of the hook d a hasp may be used with a padlock or any If it is desired to form a close joint between thedoors, a vertical cleat, as I), may be secured along the edge of the door B, on the outside thereof.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim 1. In combination with a door-frame having a pendent stop, a, and a door, B the door B,-

having hinged thereto the vertical pole G, the upper end of which is adapted to engage with the stop a and to bear against the vertical edge of the door B", substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the door-frame having stops at the top and bottom, and the door B having staple c, with the door B, having hinged thereto the vertical pole O, and the hook (I, pivoted to said pole, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAG. S. TROUT.

Witnesses: I

bro. 0. Lone, CHAS. E. Lone.