US401315A - Thomas tyson - Google Patents

Description

2 Sheets-Sheet 1., T. TYSON.

(No Model.)

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Patented Aprf9, 1889..

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet T. TYSON. GATE.

No. 401,315. Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

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THOMAS TYSON, OF MOUND CITY, MISSOURI.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,315, dated April 9, 1889.

Application filed June 4, 1388. Serial No. 276,016- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS TYSON, of Mound City, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Gate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in gates, especially to that class of inventions called farm-gates, and has for its object to provide a gate of simple and durable construction, and a simple and convenientmeans whereby the gate may be opened from either side by the weight of the vehicle or by a person walking or riding along the road.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved device, illustrating the gate as closed and in dotted lines the gate in partially-open position. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the gate open and locked in that position. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the gate closed, illustrating the at tachment to the gate of the several ropes or chains used to open the same; and Fig. i is a In carrying out the invention a gate, 10, is pivoted to a post, 11, in such manner that its upper hinge will be forward of the vertical line of the lower hinge, which gate is provided with alatch-bar, 12,1)ivoted thereto and extending above the upper rail, and with a lateh,13, adapted for engagement with any approved form of catch upon the receivingpost 11, as shown in Fig. 3.

At each side of the gate-post 11 standards 15 and 16 are secured in any approved manner, the space intervening between the gatepost and either standard being essentially equal to the width of the gate. Upon the inner side of each of the said standards 15 and 16 a latch-pin, 17, is held for vertical movement in staples 18, as shown in Fig. 2,

ployed. Each standard 15 and 16 is provided upon the top with a horizontal beam, 1!), which beam is preferably inclined upward and outward away from the gate and over the road.

The several cross-beams .19 are provided with recesses 20 in their ends overhanging the road, in which recesses pulleys 21 are journaled, over which ropes or chains 22 are passed, attached at one end to the upper ends of the latch-pins 17, the other end of each rope or chain depending from the beam, being provided, preferably, with a ring, 23, which renders the manipulation more convenient. Upon the upper surface of each beam 19 a pulley, 24, is j ournaled at a point near the intersection of the beam with the standard, and upon the under side of said beam a second pulley, 25, is journaled, a third pulley, 26, being journaled in a recess produced in the inner side of the standard immediately under the beam, as best shown in Fig.

Near each standard 15 and 1G spaced upwardly-inclined boards, 27, are located, the lower ends of which boards are adapted to rest upon the ground, the upper ends, which are nearest the gate, being supported upon suitable beams or ties, 28.

In the spaces intervening between the inclined boards 27 levers 29 are pivoted at their outer ends, the inner or elevated ends of which levers are connected to cross-bars 30, pivoted in suitable bearings secured in the road near the elevated ends of the inclined boards 27,

as best shown in Fig. 1, the outer end of which cross-bar 30 is united by a connecting-bar, 32, to a lever, 31, fulcrumed upon the standards 15 and 16, as clearly shown in Fig.

To the free ends of the levers 81 ropes or chains 33 are secured, which ropes or chains, passing over the pulleys 24, are also carried around pulleys 34:, mounted upon the upper end of the gate-post 11. From thence the said ropes or chains are carried in the direction of the gate and secured to the gate latch-bar12, as best shown in Fig. 1. In securing the ropes or chains 33 to the latch-bar a transverse bar, 35, is preferably passed through the upper end of the latch-bar and the ropes attached to eyes formed at the ends of the cross-bar, whereby an even strain or tension is exerted upon the latch.

A rope or chain, 36, is passed upward over each. pulley 21, under the pulley 25, around the pulleys 26 and 311', to a connection with the transverse bar 35 of the gate, which rope or chain 36 is adapted for manipulation when it is not convenient to utilize the lever 29, or when said lever 29, by means of snow or ice, becomes blocked.

In attaching the several ropes or chains to the gate, those leading from the standard are made to pass upon one side of the pulley 3t, and those from the standard 16 upon the opposite side of said pulley, and the said ropes or chains are therefore necessarily attached to opposite sides of the gate latch-bar.

In operation, when the lever 29 is free, a person approaching from the right in a vehicle before reaching the gate causes the wheel of the vehicle to ride over the lever 29, whereby said lever is pressed downward, as shown to the right in Fig. 2. The connecting-bar 32, acting upon the lever 31, causes said lever to exert a tension upon the rope 33, whereby the gate is unlatched and carried to the left. Immediately upon the release of lever 29 from the pressure of the wheel t-helatch of the gate is brought in contact with the latch-pin 17 and the gate locked in an open position. To unlock the gate after having passed through, it simply becomes necessary to pull down upon the rope or chain 22, whereupon thelatch-pin 17 is lifted and the latch and gate released. The gate, by reason of the peculiar manner in which it is hung, will then automatically close.

The rope 30, which is suspended from the beams over the road, maybe used, if convenient, by pedestrians or by parties in a vehicle who do not desire to drive over the lever 29, and is particularly adapted for use when in inclement weather the lever 29 becomes blocked by snow or ice or other means.

I make no claim in the present application to a gate having a forward inclination and provided with a flexible brace, nor do I claim, broad ly,a pi voted latch-bar operated by means of ropes or cords connected to levers pivoted to the standards and to the said latch-bar, the same being shown, described, and claimed in applications filed of even date and serially numbered 27 6,01% and 276,015, respectively.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination,with the gate-post having horizontal pulleys on its upper end and a gate pivoted to swing in opposite directions and having a latch and lever therefor, of standards 15 16 at opposite sides of the gate post, having pulleys 24: on their upper ends, spaced inclined planes near each standard, a lever, 29, pivoted between each pair of said inclined planes parallel with the roadway, a second lever, 30, pivoted at right angles to each lever 29, and pivotally connected with said levers 29 at their adjacent or inner ends, levers 31, pivoted to the posts 15 16, rods 32, connecting levers 30 31, and a rope or chain leading from the latch-lever in opposite directions around the pulleys 34, thence over the pulleys 24 and down to the levers 31, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the gate having a latch and side standards, 15 16, having crossbeams 19, extending toward the roadway, of the vertically-sliding latch-pin 17 on each pc st to engage the gate-latch, and ropes or chains leading from the upper end of said pins outward over pulleys on the outer ends of beams 19 and downwardly therefrom within reach of a pedestrian or driver, substantially as set forth.

THOMAS TYSON.

\Vitnesses:

EIDW'ARD IIUGGIN, JOHN P. LEWIS.

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