US417111A

US417111A - Shutter-hinge

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Publication number: US417111A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 1906-12-10

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(ModeL) T. STEOKEL. SHUTTER HINGE.

110.417.111. Patented Dec. 10, 18819.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE STECKEL, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHUTTER-HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,111, dated December 10,1889.

Application filed March 14, 1889- $erial No. 303,297. (Model!) To all whom, it may concern..-

3e it known that I, THEODORE STECKEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shutter-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in lock-hinges for shutters; and it consists in a certain novel construction and combination of parts, fully described hereinafter in connection with the drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved hinge applied in its operative position to a shutter. Fig. 2 is aplan view, partly in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the hinge in its closed position detached from the shutter. Fig. i is a detail view of the swinging leaf of the hinge. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the operating-lever. Fig. 0 is a similar view of the hook and staple.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the stationary leaf of the hinge, which is adapted to be attached to the casing and is provided with the pintle a, and B designates the swinging leaf, which is a'liixed to the edge of the shutter and iits 011 the said pintle. The knuckle of the swinging leaf is provided with an elongated socket or slot 1) to receive the pintle, 0, whereby the leaf is capable of lateral play on the pintle to permit the shutter to be moved horizontally, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The shutter is provided on its outer side with a horizontal shouldered stud or hook C, which is adapted to engagea staple D, which is adapted to be arranged in a convenient position on the side of the house. The end of the stud or hook is beveled, so that when the shutter is opened the said beveled end will strike against the staple and slide the shutter inward sufficiently to clear the shoulder and enable it to engage the staple. If the shutter is now pushed outward into its former position,the hook will engage the staple.

E designates an operating-lever having a roundhead or disk F at one end, provided with a central perforation, which is mounted on the pintle'a, and the edge of the said head or disk fits in,beveled notches G G in the adjacent edges of the leaves of the hinge. This head or disk is provided at one side with a V-shaped notch j, which is adapted to register with the notch in the swinging leaf, whereby the said leaf may be moved horizonzontally on the pintle, it being evident that when the periphery of the disk or head is engaged in the notch of the swinging leaf the latter is held from horizontal movement, the pintle being located in the inner end of the elongated socket or slot or concentric with the knuckle. V

The exposed face of the swin gin gleaf of the hinge is provided with a horizontal groove H, which receives the operating-lever. The free end of the lever is provided with a handle 6, of any convenient form. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the length of the lever up to the handle 6 is about equal to the width of the shutter, so that when the lever is closed down it engages around the edge of the shutter.

The operation of the improved hinge is as follows: lVhen the shutter is opened, it swings back, in the ordinary manner, until the free end of the shouldered hook or stud comes in contact with the free end of the staple, when, the operating-lever being arranged at right angles to the plane of the hinge, as seen in Fig. 1 in full lines, the shutter is pushed inward, thereby bringing the pintle a into the outer end of the socket or slot 1) or eccentric with the knuckle of the swinging hing. (When the lever is in the position above named, its V-shaped notch registers with the notch in the edge of the swinging leaf.) The free end of the lever is now pushed outward to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, thereby forcing the shutter outward and engaging the shouldered stud or hook with the staple, and the periphery of the head or disk of the lever being now engaged in the notch of the swinging leaf, the latter is locked firmly in position. To close the shutter, swing the free end of the lever around to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, when the weight of the shutter will cause it to slide inward, and thereby disengage the shouldered stud or hook from the staple, causing the edge of the swinging leaf to engage in the V-shaped notch of the lever. The shutter may now be closed by drawing the free end of the lever inward. When the V-shaped notch of the lever registers with the notch G in the swinging leaf, the shutter maybe lifted off; but in all other positions of the lever the swinging leaf is locked against vertical movement and cannot be lifted off. v

I am aware that it is broadly old to combine in a hinge, with the movable and stationary leaves, an operating-lever; but in all prior devices, so far as I am aware, the operating-lever has been used for a diiferentpurpose than for that which I put it to. An example of this may be seen upon reference to the patent to Palmer, No. 2,936, in which the hinge-leaves are provided with coacting inclined planes, and an interposed lever provided with a cam-like head to ride up an inclined plane of one of the leaves to separate the same and allow for the opening and closing of the shutter.

A still better example may be seen upon reference to the patent of Kline, No. 288,34E5, in which the lever works on the same principle and for the same purpose as in the earlier patent of Palmer, above cited, and serves only for the purpose of lifting or raising one of the leaves, so as to clear the other in closing the shutter.

In my invention the operating-lever not having any inclined or cam-like head, does not serve to raise one of the leaves, but, 011 the contrary, works on an entirely different principle. It looks the leaves in one position, while in another position the leaves are unlocked. This may be done in a variety of Ways, but the simplest mode of construction is shown in the accompanying drawings, and hereinbefore described. The lever by one turn prevents the leaves from sliding horizontally, while by another turn the horizontal movement is permitted.

Having thus described the invention, I laim- 1. In a lock-hinge, the combination of the stationary leaf provided with a pintle, and the swinging leaf having the transverse groove II and provided with an elongated slot or socket fitting on the said pintle, Whereby the swinging leaf is permitted to have a horizontal movement, and the operating-lever E, having a plain head or disk provided with a notch f, the head of the lever being mounted on the pintle between the two plain meeting faces of the hinged and stationary leaves, whereby when the periphery of the head or disk engages the swinging leaf the latter is prevented from having a horizontal movement, and angular handle 6 at the outer end, as set forth. 7

2. In a lock-hinge, the combination of the stationary leaf provided with a pintle, and the swinging leaf provided with an elongated slot or socket fitting on the said pintle, whereby the swinging leaf is permitted to have a horizontal movement, and the operating-lever E, having a plain head or disk provided with means adapted to engage with the swinging leaf at one movement of the lever to hold the said leaf from horizontal movement, and at another turn of the lever to allow the swinging leaf to move horizontally, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE STEOKEL.

\Vitnesses:

J. B. KEMERER, ADAM M. MUssELMAN.