US52649A

US52649A - Improvement in hinges

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Publication number: US52649A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1866-02-13
Anticipated expiration: 1883-02-13

Description

rel of the hinge.

UNiTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL SELDEN, OF FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP, ERIE COUNTY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN C. SELDEN, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT vIN HINGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,649, dated February 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SELDEN, of the township ot' Fairview, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful machine, which I denominate a Reversible Loose- Jointed Door-Hinge;77 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to thc annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the center ofthe joint, and Fig. 3 the hinge bolt or pivot.

A, B, G, and D are Wings of the hinge; cfg h, heads or barrel of hinge; j 7c lm n o p, necks of hinge; q, Fig. 3, the `enlargement of the center of the pivot. This is like awasher, but is irmly xed on the center of the pivot. Its diameter is aboutthe same as that of the bar- The door can be lifted from The heads are in the middle of the wings. The two Wings, with their heads, are alike.

The operation with the improvement is as follows: The hinge, Fig; l, stands as it would on a door swinging from the observer to the left. To apply it to a door swinging to the right take the Wings apart, put A above and let it become O, Fig. 2, the pivot being taken out and placed so that the enlarged center kj, Fig. l, falls at n o, Fig. 2. This vis ajsimple method of reversing the hinge and applying it to both right and left hand doors. The same countersinks of the Win gs answer for all cases, and the heads c 7c, Sto., can be s et on curved necks l 7c, Src., out of the plane of the Wings, as in the common hinge.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The movable pintle, constructed With the IiXed washer or enlarged center Q, in combination With the two leaves of a hinge, constructed substantially as described.

. SAMUEL SELDEN.

Witnesses I. W. WIT-MORE, F. GURLZE.