US473625A - William turner gregg - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. T. GREGG.

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Pategfted Apr. 26, 1892.v

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UNITED STATES `PATENT GFFICE.

4VIVLLIAM TURNER GREGG, OF LAKEPORT, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersvPatent N o. 473,625, dated April 26, 1892.

Application filed July 14, 1891.

To a/Z whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, WILLIAM TURNER GREGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lakeport, in the county of Lake and State of California, have invented a new and useful Door, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to doors; and the object of the same is to render the door con- ,vertible from its usual paneled construction into a glass, blind, or screen door.

To this end the invention consists in the construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein- Figure l is a perspective view of this improved door, showing panels in its upper portion and a wire screen in its lower portion. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing'slats in the upper portion anda glass panel removed from the lower portion and turned so as to exhibit the edge of the panel. Fig. 3 is 'a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4 el. of Fig. 2.

Referring to the said drawings, the letters T, M, and B designate, respectively, the top, middle, and bottom rails of a door-frame, which are connected at their ends with the hangingstile H and the lock-stile L, as is usual in the construction of doors, and above and below said middle rail are openings wherein the panels are usually inserted. Heretofore provision has been made for removing said panels and substituting therefor screens or blinds, securing the same removably in place by various means; and th? present invention contemplates the provision of securing means for this purpose which cannot be manipulated to remove the panel, window, screen, or blind sections when the door is closed. At the sides of the said openings in the door-frame are vertical beads V, standing flush with the outer face of the frame. In both horizontal edges of each opening are grooves G.

R is a recess in the hanging-stile at the end of the groove G in each edge of the middle rail, and O are openings through the lockingstile opposite the other ends of these grooves, a cavity C being formed in the outer edge of said locking-stile j ust below each opening O.

The various sections which are adapted to be secured detachably in the openings in the Serial No. 399,482. (No model.)

door-'frame may be of glass, netting, panels, or stationary or movable slats, and they may be in one panel or more, in which latter case the muntin U is removable with the` section, there being but two sections, as shown, one above and the other below the middle rail M. lf the section contains panels P, it will have no frame; but if it contains anything else it will be provided with a frame F. This frame (or the sides of a paneled section) is of the following construct-ion: Its vertical edges are cut away, as at A, so that when it is inserted in the door-frame the angles formed at these cutaway edges will strike the vertical beads V on the hanging and locking Stiles, as seen in Fig. 3. j `At the lower edge of the frame is a depending tongue D, which fits the groove G in the bottom rail B, or this tongue D projects upwardly from the upper edge of the panel or section at the upper portion of the door and passes into the groove G in the top rail T. The other horizontal edge of the sectionthat is, the edge adjacent the middle rail Mis provided with a groove G registering with that in the middle rail when the section is in place.

S is a locking bar or strip of rectangular cross-section, ot' asize adapted to pass through the opening O and to fit in the registering grooves G and G', and of such length that when its tip rests in the recess R in the hanging-stile its outer end will be flush with the outer edge ot' the locking-stile. To the outer end of this strip is hinged an eye or ring shaped handle I, which normally falls and stands in the cavity C.

To insert a section in this door-frame, the tongue D is inserted in the groove in the top or bottom rail, the grooved edge of the section then borne toward the door until its cut- IOO Of course the form and size of parts j tongues faced with metal or changed to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit ofthe invention. Another form of handle could be used than that lettered l; but with the construction described the ringhangs nicely in the cavity and may be swung outwardly to put the iinger through when it is desired to draw the locking-strip. The latter might be of other cross-section than that shown, and might even he of metal, or the two horizontally-arranged panels in a section might be independent of each other and locked by two locking-strips of halt the length ofthe one shown and inserted through both edges of the door until their ends met at the center. However, I prefer the construction shown, because it. absolutely prevents the lateral displacement of the locking-strip, as both its ends are held from lateral movement in every direction.

A door of this kind can be cheaply constructed and will be very serviceable in a dwelling-house, and by a slight change in the structure the ordinary doors now in use could be converted into the form of door shown. In winter the paneledl-or the glass section is inserted and in warmer weather the netting or the blind section, and in event of a sudden change of weather the sections could be replaced by others in a few minutes.

With the exceptions above noted the door is the same as those now manufactured, andv its style, proportions, and configuration may of course be such as is desired and as conforms with the architecture of the building in which the door is employed.

It desired, the opening O and cavity Cmay ,be duplicated in the hanging-stile and the recess R omitted,.in which case the strip could be withdrawn from either edge of the door and the latter could be hinged at either edge.

Vhat is claimed as new is- 1. The combination, with a door-frame having an upper and a lower opening, the vertical sides of each opening being provided with beads flush withV one face of the door and the horizontal sides of each opening being provided with grooves, that in the middle rail opening through the locking-stile of the doorframe, of paneled, glass, screen, and blind sections interchangeably fitting said openings, each section being cut away at its vertical edges, so as to engage said beads, having a groove in one edge adapted to register with that in the middle rail and having a tongue on its other edge adapted to tit the groove at the other vertical side of said opening, and a locking-strip removably inserted through the locking-stile and standing in said registering grooves, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a door-frame having an upper and a lower opening, the horizontal sides of each opening being provided with grooves, that in the middle rail extending through the locking-stile of the doorframe, of paneled, glass, screen, and blind sections interchangeably fitting said openings, each section having a groove in one edge adapted to register with that in the middle rail and a tongue on its other edge adapted to itthe groove at the opposite side of said opening', and a locking strip re n1ovably inserted through the locking-stile and standing in said registering grooves, as and for the purpose set forth.

The combination, with a door-frame having an upper and a lower opening, the horizontal sides of each opening being provided with grooves, one end ot' the groove in the middle rail being continued into a recess in the hanging-stile and the other end being continued in an opening through the lockingstile, of paneled, glass, screen, and blindi sections interchangeably iitting said openings, each sectionhaving a groove in one edge adapted to register with that in the middle rail and a tongue on its other edge adapted to tit lthe groove at the opposite side of said opening, and a locking strip removably inserted through the locking-stile, its body standmg in said registering grooves and its inner end -in said recess, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a door-frame having an opening, the horizontal sides of such opening being provided with grooves, one of which extends through one of the stiles of the door-frame, of paneled, glass, screen, and blind sections interchangeably iitting said opening, `each sectionhaving a groove in one edge adapted to register with said extended groove and a tongue on its other edge adapted to nt the opposite groove, a locking-strip removably 1nserted through said stile and standing in said registering grooves, and ahandle at the outer end of said strip normally flush with the edge of said stile, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with a door-frame having an opening, one horizontal side of such opening being provided with a groove which is continued through one of the Stiles in the door-frame in an opening having a cavity around its outer end, of paneled, glass, screen, and blind sections interchangeablytting said openings, each section having a groove in one edge adapted to register with that in the frame, detachable connections between its other edge and the opposite side ot the opening, a locking-strip removably inserted through said stile, with its body standing in said registering grooves, and a handle connected to the outer end of said strip and normally standing in said cavity flush with the outer edge ot' said stile, as and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination, with a door-frame having an upper and a lower opening, the horizontal sides of each opening being provided with grooves, one end of the groove in the middle rail being continued into a recess in one stile and the other end being continued through the opposite stile in an opening having a cavity around its outer end, of paneled, glass, screen, and blind sections interchange- IOO tog

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edge of the stile7 as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

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

WILLIAM TURNER. GREG-G.

Witnesses:

L. H. BoGGs, R. V. S. QUIGLEY.

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