US690063A - Gate. - Google Patents

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Patented Dec. 3|, 190|. C. H. LARSUN.

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(Application led Sept. 4, 1901.)

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No. 690,063. Patented Dec. 3|, 190|.

c. H. LABsoN. GATE.

(Application led Sept. 4, 1901.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN Il. LARSON, .OF AVOCA, VISCONSIN.

GATE.

SEECKFXUATJON forming' part of Letters Patent No. 690,063, dated December 31, 1901.

V Application filed September 4, 1901. Serial No. 74,341. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, CHRISTIAN, H. LARsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Avoca, in the county of- Iowa and State of W'isconsin, have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ot swinging gates, more especially the means for operating the same, and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive operating mechanism designed for enabling the gate to be opened and closed by a person in a vehicle or on horseback and capable of permitting a person approaching the gate at either side to remain on the right-hand side ofthe road and to open the gate, pass through the gateway, and close the gate without dismounting from a horse or without leaving a vehicle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate provided with operative mechanism constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View ot' the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 designates a swinging gate, hinged to a post or support 2 and adapted to open in one direction only,and provided with apivoted latch 3, which is positively held in engagement with a main keeper 4 by a weight 5. The main keeper 4 extends from one side of a latch-post 6, and the weight, which is located beyond the gate, depends from the outer end of the latch-bar, which is extended beyond the keeper, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings. The latch is connected with the ends of an actuating rope or cable 7, which may be constructed of wire,'hemp, or any other material and which extends from opposite sides of the gate to uprights 8 and 9. The uprights S and Sl, which are provided with horizontal supporting-arms 10 and 11., are located at the same side of the road, and the upright 9 is provided with a supplemental keeper 12 to receive the latch, whereby the gate is posi- A tivelyheld in its open position. The arms 10 and 11 are provided with guides 14 and 15, preferably consisting of pulleys and receiving the actuating rope or cable and supporting the same, and the said rope or cable extends outward from the uprights S and 9 to uprights 1G and 17, located at opposite sides ot' the roadway. The upright 17 is located at the same side of the roadway as the uprights S and ULand the upright 16 is located at the opposite side of the roadway at a point directly opposite the upright 8. The uprights 16 and 17 are provided with supporting-arms 18 and 19, andthe operating rope or cable extends across the gate from these uprights, being supported at an intermediate point by an upright 20. The upright 20, which is located at the same side of the road as the upright 16, is providedat its upper end with a horizontal supporting-arm 2l, and guides 22 and 23 depend from the arms 18 and 21 for supporting the gate-actuating rope or cable. These guides consist of pulleys mounted in suitable blocks. By this arrangement the operating rope or cable is looped at each side ot' the gate, and operating ropes or cables 24, 25, 26, and 27 are connected with the sides of these looped portions and are arranged in pairs at each side of the gate. One member ot' each pair ot' operating ropes or cables is adapted to swing the gate in one" direction andthe other member swings the gate in the opposite direction. The operating rope or cable on the right-hand side of the road, approaching the gate, when pulled opens the gate, and the operating-rope or cable at the same side of the road is adapted to close the gate after a person has passed through the gateway. The operating rope or cable 24, which is support-ed by a guide 2S on the arm 10, extends over the pulley of the guide and is connected with the adjacent portion of the operating rope or cable at a point between the gate and the pulley. rlhe operating rope or cable 25 is supported by a guide-pulley 29 on the arm 1S of the support or upright 16, and it is connected with the IOO actuating rope or cable at a point between the guide-pulley and the gate. rThe operating ropes or cables 26 and 27, which are located at the opposite side of the gate, depend from guides 30 land 31 of the arms 19 and 21 and are arranged substantially the same as the said operating-ropes 24 and 25. the actuating-rope is secured to the latch of the gate, and it extends upward therefrom to a pulley 32,1ocatedkat the top of the gate. The pulleys 32 are located at opposite sides of the gate atthe top thereof and the actuatingf rope extends outward from the pulleys, and when it is pulled upon it Will lift the latch and release the gate. between its ends to a rope or cable 34, which extends upward and rearward to a pulley 35, and the said rope or cable 34 is provided with a Weight 36, adapted to counterbalance the gate and prevent the same from sagging. The pulley 35 is mounted in a suitable block and depends from an arm of the post or support 2.

It willbe seen that the gate-operatin g mechanism is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to an ordinary swinging gate, and that it will enable the same to be opened and closed from the right-hand side of the road Whenapproaching the gate from either direction.

1. The combination with a gate, of a gateactuating rope or cable connected at its ends with the gate and extending from the same in opposite directions and looped at each side of the gate and crossing the same, guides for supporting the actuating rope or cable, and operating'ropes or cables arranged in pairs at opposite sides of thegate and extending from each of the sides of each looped portion of the Each end ofl The gate is connected actuating ropeor cable, substantially as 'deff scribed.

2. The combination with a gate, and a latch mounted thereon, of an actuating rope or cable connected at its ends to the latch and extending from the gate in opposite directions and looped at each side of the same and extending across the said gate, uprights or posts located at opposite sides of the gate and provided with guides receiving the n operating rope or cable, operating ropes or cables arranged in pairs at opposite sides of the gate and extending-from each side of each looped portion of the actuating vrope or cable, and guides supporting the operating ropes .or cables, substantiallyy as described.

3. The combination of a swinging gateprovided with a latch, the uprights S and 9 located at vopposite sides of the gate and arranged at'the same sideof the roadway, the uprights 16 and ,17, located at opposite sides of the gate and at opposite sides of the roadway, the intermediate upright20, pulleys supported by the said uprights, a gate-actuating rope or cable extending from opposite sides of the gate and looped at each side of the same and supported vby the said pulleys, the operating ropes or cables arrangedl at opposite sides of the gate and extending from each side of each looped portion of the actuating rope or cable, and pulleys supporting the operating ropes vor cables, substantially as'described..

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

CHRISTIAN H. LARsoN.

Witnesses:

G. MOORE, S. MOORE.'

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