US654210A - Gate. - Google Patents

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Patented luly 24, |900. W. R. WHITE.

No. 654,2lo.

GATE.

(Application led Aug. 24, 1899.)

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VILLIAM RICHARD 'WHITE OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 654,210, dated July 24, 1900.

Application filed August 24. 1899| To all whom zit' may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RICHARD WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in swinging gates, and particularly to the connections between the opposing ends of the operating-levers employed to open and close the gate; and it consists, substantially, in such features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts as will hereinafter be more particularly described.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a view in perspective of a swinging gate having my improvements embodied in connection therewith. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, of portions of the operating-levers, showin g one form of my improved connecting devices. Figs. 3 and I are similar views showing other forms of connecting devices in which the principle of my invention is embodied.

In the drawings, l indicates the gate, which may loe of any ordinary construction; 2, the post, upon which the gate is supported by means of suitable hinges 3 3; and 4, the post on the opposite side of the gateopening against which the gate closes.

5 is a post in alinement with post 2 on the same side of the roadway, and 6 is a post set adjacent to post 5 and against which the gate may be carried. Posts 5 and 2 are preferably connected at their upper ends by a cross-bar 8.

The operating-levers are designated by 9 and l0, the former being pivoted between its ends on the post 5 and the latter on a block or bar ll, extending diagonally from the post 2 and secured thereto and to the cross-bar 8. The levers are so formed and pivoted that their inner or adjacent ends normally tend to swing downwardly.

The gate in the present instance is shown as provided with a longitudinally-sliding latch-bar 12, provided at its forward end with a rectangular loop 13 for engaging keepers 14: on posts 4: and 6. The bar l2 is actuated by Serial No. 728,350. (No model.)

a combined rocking and oscillating lever 22, suitably supported on the gate and connected by a link 30 to the lever l0.

The foregoing construction forms no part of the present invention and is very similar to the constructions set forth in some of the patents heretofore granted to me.

Referring now to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the inner end of the lever l0 is provided with alongitudinally-extendinghole 35,which may be bored with an auger or otherwise formed. In this hole a rod 36 is loosely fitted to slide longitudinally therein. rIhe inner end ofthe lever 9 is vertically slotted, as shown at 37, and the rod 36 projects into this slot and is formed with an eye 38, and a pin 39, secured in the lever 9, extends through the eye and forms a pivot upon which the rod may swing vertically. By this means the levers are so connected that they may swing freelyon their pivots and the movement of one lever will impart a like movement to the other lever with a minimum of lost movement. The connection also tends to prevent lateral movement of the levers, and the guides which are usually employed to prevent lateral movement of the levers in this class of gates may be dispensed with. It is of course obvious that the hole 35 may be enlarged and a metal tube of sufficient internal diameter to receive the rod 36 be fitted therein.

In Fig. 3 the construction is similar except that the end of the rod 36 is forked, as indicated at 40, and straddles the lever, the pivotpin 39 passing through both prongs and the lever, and the slot in the latter is omitted.

In Fig. e is shown a construction which effects the same results. Here the rod 36 is pivotally connected to the lever 9 in the same manner as in Fig. 2; but in the end of lever 10 two eyebolts 42 42 are secured in position with their eyes in alinement, and the rod 36 slides in these eyes. One way to insert the eyebolts 42 is to out transverse openings lin the lever of a size sufficient to permit the passage of the enlarged or eye portion of the bolts from one side of the lever. Such openings may be of a uniform size entirely through the lever or they may be reduced in size on one side ofthe lever beyond where the eye portion rests to receive the bolt beyond the eye portion on that side. When the nuts are 4tightened up the eyebolts will be securely held in either case.

It is obvious that the invention may be embodied in many other forms, and hence I do not limit myself in its embodiment to the constructions illustrated.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of two gate-operating- Io levers, and a rod pivotally attached t0 one lever and mounted on the other so as to slide longitudinally thereon.

2. The combination of ltwo gate-operating WILLIAM RICHARD WHITE.

Witnesses:

HENRY G. BINNs, HEMAN D. ECKERT.

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