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(No Model.)

W. J. LANE.

DOOR HANGER.. N0. 368,478. Patented Aug. 16, 1887..

IJNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE WILLIAM J. LANE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NE\V YORK.

DOORHANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368.478,da15e61 August 16, 1887.

Application iled Angnst4, 1886. Serial N'o. 209,990. (N'o model) T0 aZZ wh0m i may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. LANE, of

Ioughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and.

with the ordinary support, adapted to be at tached to the door.

In the drawings, Fignrc 1 represents a perspective view showng n1y hanger attached at the top of a door. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the hanger. Fig. 3is a vertical section through the hanger, showing it attached to the lower portion of the door.

The hanger-ways are composed of bar-iron 01 steel of eqnal length, arranged parallel t0 eael1 other, with a space between, in which the ordinary wheel travels. Tl1e ends of the ways are connected together by connecting-pieces b 12, bent approximately in U shape and riv ete(l to the ends of the ways upon the outside thereof, so as to leave an nnobstructed passage between the ways for the passage of the wheel. Tl1e bent connecting-pieces b b are of a greater width than the hanger-ways, and being placed with their sides in planes parallel with the bearng-edges of the ways they form abnt ments above and below the Same upon each side, as shown, and as the wheel reaches one end ortl1e other of the ways the axle of the wheel comes in contact with these abntments, which thns act as stops while the forward part of the whcel runs into the bencl.

Ihe conncction for the door is shown as a U shaped strap, as in my aforesaid patent, and the encls are riveted to the hanger-ways and to the connecting bent pieces by a rivet passing through the three thicknesses, as clearly shown. It will tln1s be seen that by this construction an exceedingly simple an(l streng no change is necessary in the constrncton of the hanger, as hcrenbe fo re dcscribed, to adapt it to this change of location.

It is apparent that if a stop we1e desired only on the upper edges of the ways, or only on the lower cdges, the edges of the wider bent end pieees could be made flash with one edge of each way; but this would n0t serve for a reversible hanger, and I therefore project the edges of the bent end pieecs on both sides above and below; bnt I do notlimt 1nyself to the projection 0n botl1 edges.

The hanger herein described diffcrs from the hanger shown in an application filed by me on the 10th day of April, 1886, No. 198,465, in this, that the ends of the way in that case are connected to each other by bending laterally the bars which form the ways, and tlulslom ing the ends of the same depth as the ways, so that there is in that case no stop on one side, while, as above explained, the hanger now claimed is formed at the ends of the ways by bent pieces of greater depth than the hangerways and project to form an abutment or stop against which the axle of the wheel comes in contact.

I do not, therefore, l1erein broadly claim a door-hanger consisting of hanger-ways formed of a bar 01 bars arrangecl with the larger axis in vertcal planes with lateral bends atthe ends of the ways, in combination with vertical supports attached thereto.

I claim as my invention A door-hanger consisting of ways cornposed of side bars arranged parallel to each other, with a space between for the wheel, bent end pieces, 1), of matcrial wider thanthe bars at each end, with' theirsides parallel with the bearng-edges of tahe side ba rs and forming abut ments for stops, sad bent end pieces being rveted 00 the side peces, and a sbrap or connection f0r attachment to the door, also riveted to the side bars, th e parts being con- Wtnesses: s'tructed and combined subsbantially as de- JOHN M. DORLAND, scrbed.

PETER DORLAND.

In testimony whereof I have sgned my nam to this specification in bhe presence of two subscribng wtnesses.

WILLIAM J. LANE.

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