US402489A

US402489A - Farm-gate

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Publication number: US402489A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-04-30
Anticipated expiration: 1906-04-30

Description

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. S. S. 8v J. G. SHERMAN.

" `FARM GATE. Y N 402,4 i Patented Apr. 30, 188,951?.

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SAMUEL S. SHERMAN AND JEREMIAII G. SHERMAN, OF WEST MCHENRY, ILLINOIS.

` FARM-GATE.

SPECIFICATIONt-forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,489, dated April A30, 1889.

' Application tiled July 28, 1888. Serial No. 281,331. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL S. SHERMAN and JEREMIAH G.. SHERMAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of West Mc- Henry, in the county of McI-'lenry and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Farm-Gates; and we do declare the-following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of our gate down. 2 is a side elevation with gate thrown up. Fig. 3 is a detail View of stirrup. Fig. 4. shows the .prop-bar andthe pin g thereon, and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the hinge K.

The invention relates to improvements lin gates; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

The present gate is more particularly an improvement on the gate heretofore patented, under date of February 8, 187 6, to J. G. Sherman, No. 173,348, in which a pin is rigidly secured to the rear end of one of the gate- Ears and turns in an opening in a short cross- Referring to the drawings, A designates two vertical posts, having their lower ends seated rmly in the ground and connected by the lower cross-bar, B, and the upper crossbar, C. The said posts are set parallel to each other; but the one bearing against the rear face of the gate D is slightly behind the other post, so that the gate can be swung outward. The gate D consists of the arallel bars a, secured together by the vertical 'strips b. E is a head-post at `the front of the gate, having the keeper c thereon.

F is a locking-bar fulcrumed near its lower end to the bottom bar of the gate, and having its upper end extended through the elongated staple (l, which is secured to the top rail of the gate.

Gr is a iieXible rod or chain extending on each side of the gate from a connection with the lower end of thebarF to the hook e, which engages one of the series 0f openings F through the cross-bar C. By this series of openings the hook may be adjusted so as to raise or lower the front end of the gate, as desired.

H is a stirrup having eyes at its ends,

through which the iieXible rod passes, as shown, and the said stirrup is designed to be pushed forward on the top rail when the gate is open, thus taking up the slack of the flexible rod and holding the front end of the gate free from the ground.

I is a prop-bar, designed to secure the gate at any desired opening, and to prop up the end thereof by turning the pin c, which stands out from the prop, at right angles from the top of the gate-bar and allowing it to drop, when the gate may be lifted, so as to allow the lower edge of one of the bars to rest upon the pin g. The said prop-bar slides in the keeper-straps h, secured to the top and bottom rails of the gate, and a metal point, c', in its lower ends enters the ground and holds the gate at the desired opening.

It is found very convenient to secure the gate, as described, at a narrow opening when separating sheep, hogs, and cattle, as itis evident that the gate may be so secured as to allow the passage of only one animal at a time.

K is the yielding pivot or hook-hinge, having one of its hook ends inserted in an opening through the lower cross-bar, B, and having the hook at its opposite end passing around the rear end of the lower bar of the gate and over the supporting-pin 7c, as shown.

The hooks stand at right angles tol each other, and make a very convenient hinge or.

pivot.

- Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. The combination, with the gate, the iiexible rod having the hook, the posts, and the cross-bar B, of the yielding pivot or hinge having the hook ends engaging, respectively, In testimony whereof we ax oursignatnres the end of the lowei1 bar and the cross-bar B, in pi'esenee of two Witnesses. substantially as specified.

2. The eo1nbination,Witl1 the gate, the posts, SAMUEL S. SHERMAN. 5 and the cross-bar B, of the yielding pivot hav- JEREMIAI-I G. SHERMAN.

ing the hooks at right angles to each other, engaging, respectively, in an opening in the Witnesses: cross-bar and with the end of the lower gate- JAMES B. PERRY, bar, and the supporting-pin, substantially as O. N. OWEN. 1o specified.