US741539A - Gate. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED OCT. 13, 1903.

W. A. PEEPLBS.

GATE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 24. 1902.

H0 MODEL,

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PATENT ()FFICE.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,539, dated October 13, 1903.

' Application filed J'uly.24=,1902. Serial No- 116,851- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM ADDISON PEE- PLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stewart, in the county of Montgomery and State of Mississippi, 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 of gates, more especially the means for operating the same, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient device adapted to be readily applied to a swinging gate and capable of enabling the same to be readily opened at a distance from either side of it without dismounting from a horse or leavinga buggy.

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 claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a gate constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the operating mechanism.

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

1 designates a swinging gate hinged at its top in any desired manner and provided at its bottom with a forked or bifurcated bolt 2, engaging a slotted plate 3 and constructed in accordance with Patent No. 322,316, granted to me July 14, 1885, and adapted when the gate is opened to swing the lower portion upward, whereby the gate is caused to close antomatically when it is free to move; but any other form of hinge may be employed, if desired. I

The gate is provided with a spring-actuated latch 4, adapted to engage'a latch-post Y 5 when the gate is closed, and the said latch is connected with'operating-ropes 6, extending rearward from the latch to guide-pulleys 7 of a horizontal supporting-bar 8. The opcrating-ropes 6 or other flexible connections diverge rearwardly from the front portion of the gate, and they extend inward from the guide-pulleys and across at the back of the gate, whereby when one of the operating ropes or cables is pulled the gate will be swung away from theoperator in opening to prevent it from coming in contact with a horse. The horizontal supporting-bar is centrally recessed to form a seat to receive the hinge-post 9, audit is provided with slots 10 to receive the guide-pulleys and the flexible connections. The horizontal supporting-bar is provided at its ends with rearwardly-ex tending guides 10*, and it has forwardly-extending keepers 11, adapted to receive the latch of the gate when the latter is open, whereby it is retained in such position. The ends of the flexible connections extend through the guides 10* and are provided with suitable grips 12, forming stops to prevent the ropes or cables from leaving the guides. The grips or handles 12 also hold the ends of the ropes or cables in convenient position to enable them to be readily grasped by a person on horseback or in a vehicle. The gate 'is adapted to be opened by pulling one of the ropes or cables, and after passing through the gateway the other rope or'cable is pulled to release the gate for permitting the latter to close. 7

. It will be seen that thegate-operating mech anism is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a swinging gate, and that it is capable of enabling the same to be readily operat'ed'at a distance from either side of it.

' What I claim is- A gate-operating attachment comprising a horizontal supporting-bar adapted to be centrally secured to the hinge-post of the gate and provided intermediate of its center and each end with a transverse opening, a guidepulley mounted in each of said openings, end guides associated one with each end of the bar, supplemental keepers attached one to each end of the bar, and operating-ropes passed around the respective guide-pulleys and extended to opposite ends of the bar and through the end guides andprovided with handpieces, said ropes being crossed at the back of the bar and extended in opposite dimy own I have hereto affixecl my signature in rections along the rear face of the same, each the presence of two witnesses.

in contact with both pulleys, whereby each 1 pulley serves as a main guide for its rope and WILLIAM ADDISON 1 EEPLEb' 5 as a supplemental intermediate guide for the Witnesses: opposite rope. FRED. I'IOSKINS,

J. O. INGE.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as

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