US445052A

US445052A - James w

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Publication number: US445052A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-01-20
Anticipated expiration: 1908-01-20

Description

(No Model.)

J. W. FISHER.

GATE. No. 445,052. Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

IN VENTOR ATTORNEYS llivrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES V. FISHER, OF PALOUSE, VASl-IINGTON. ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELBERT \V. JONES AND ERNEST A. JONES, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,052, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed April 25, 1890.

To ctZZ whom it may cancer/1.:

Be it known that 1, JAMES W. FISHER, of Palouse, in the county of Whitman and State of \Vashington, 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, and has for its object to provide a means whereby the gate may be conveniently m and expeditiously elevated when occasion may demand to swing inward and outward over any obstruction--such as a snow-drift, for instance, and a further object is to provide a simple, durable, and effective spring-latch.

1;. The invention consists in the novel c011- struction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 2o drawings, forming apart of this specification,

in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is an elevation. of one side of the gate. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side, and Fig. 3 is afront view of a portion of the elevating mechanism of the gate.

The rear stile A of the gate is composite, and consists of two parallel bars 10 and 11,

one of said bars being adapted to slide upon the other. The bar ll is the swing-bar of the gate and is of much greater length than the other bar 10, and the two bars are held in contact by means of straps l2, rigidly attach ed to the inner shorter bar 10 of the rear stile, the said inner bar being attached rigidly to the body 13 of the gate. The straps 12 are projected from the bar 10 laterally across and beyond the swing-bar 11, and between the 0 outer ends of the straps a friction-roller 13 is pivoted, adapted for engagement with the outer face of the swing-bar. Two straps are ordinarily employed, each provided with a friction-roller, one being located, preferably,

slightly above the top of the gate and the other below the bottom thereof, as is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. A recess is made in the inner face of the swing-bar ll of the composite rear stile, and in said recess a toothed bar or rack 14 is rigidly secured. The inner Serial No. 349,477. (No model.)

bar 10 of the composite stile is preferably made in two sections (L and a, as shown in Fig.

3, the said sections being connected in such manner that a space a intervenes between their opposed ends, such connection being effected by vertical side cleats 15. In the said side cleatsa spindle 16 is journaled, and upon said spindle apinion 17 is rigidly secured, the said pinion being located within the space a,

as is also best illustrated in Fig. 3. This pinion is engaged by the free end of a pawl 18, which pawl is pivoted at its other end to one of the uprights of the gate-body. The pinion 1'7 meshes with the teeth of the rack 14, and one end of the spindle 16 is made to project, preferably, beyond the inner eleat 15. The projecting end of the spindle near its bearing is squared or made rectangular in cross-section, as illustrated at 19 in Fig. 3, and the extremity of the projecting end is formed with a head or button 20. That portion of the spindle between the button and the squared surface 19 is reduced or cylindrical in cross-section. A crank 21 is used in connection with the spindle to revolvethe same, which crank when it is employed to operate the spindle is carried in engagement with the squared or rectangular portion 19 thereof, and when not in use is slid over the reduced or cylindrical portion of the spindle 8o intervening between the head and the squared section, in order that if the crank is turned when in this position the spindle shall not be affected thereby.

The swing-bar 11 of the composite stile is hinged near its top and bottom in any approved manner to any suitable form of post or standard and the latch end of the gate is preferably made to contact with stop-pins 23, attached to another post or standard 2i, the said post or standard having prodncedin its inner face a longitudinal slot 25.

The body of toe gate is usually made up of a series of horizontal slats 26, connected by vertical slats 2'7, and at the latch end of the gate, preferably between two central horizontal slats, a latch 28 is held to slide, the outer end of which latch is adapted to enter the recess 25 in the post 24, which recess serves as a keeper for the latch. The latch Ioc is limited in itsonter movement by the engagemeiit of a pin '29, attached thereto, with the front vertical slat, and at or near the center of the latch a second pin 30 is located, while against the rear face of said pin one end of a spring 31 is made to bear, the other end of the spring being rigidly secured to one of the horizontal slat-s of the gate-bod y. This spring causes the outer end of the latch normally to extend beyond thefront of the gate, and the pin 30 serves as a knob, whereby the latch may be drawn back to open or close the gate, and when the gate is closed and the knob released the spring, acting, forces the latch into its keeper.

It is evident from the foregoingdescription otjconstruction. that the gate is enabled swing in the ordinary manner.

In the drawings the pins 23 are represented ass'topping the gate from swinging outward;

but the pins may be dispensed with and the gate allowed to swing in either direction.

In the event that any obstacle-such as,

(Held and causing the pinion 1-7 to engage with the rack 14. The swing-bar remains at all times attached to the post 20, and the body of the gate is free to slide upward upon it. hen the gate has been elevated a sufiicient distance, the pawl 18 is caused to engage with the pinion and the grate may be opened or closed readily and at will.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with the vertical hinged bar 11, having a rack 16 on its inner face, of the vertically-sliding gate having a vertical bar .10 at its inner end provided with straps 12, embracing the bar 11, and provided with rollers 13, traveling on the face of the said bar opposite its rack, a transverse shaft 16, journaled in bar and provided with an operating handle and gear 17, meshing into the rack-teeth, and a pawl mounted on the gate and engaging said gear, substantially as set forth.

JAMES W. FISHER.

\Vitn esses:

JOHN MAUPIN, J. PICKRELL,