US756089A - Barn-door hanger. - Google Patents

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No. 756,089. v PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904. W. S. WILSON. BARN DOOR HANGER. APPLIoATIoN FILED MAR. 19,*1902.

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` on that face of the cleat which comes next to center, through which. passes a rivet or bolt Vcitizen of the United States, residing at Con- Pennsylvania,have invented a certain new and UNITED STATES Patented March e9, i904.

PATENT OFFICE.

BARN-DOOR HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,089, dated March 29, 1904. .Y

Application filed March 19, 1902.

To all whom #may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER S. WILSON, a V

neaut Lake, county of Crawford, and State of useful Improvement in Barn-Door Hangers, of which the following is a` specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in barn-door hangers, and has for its object to-provide a hanger which will be durable and efficient in action, cheap in construction, and may be sol applied to the barn-door as to allow the track to be placed much nearer the wall and will have other minor objects enumerated lin thebody of the' specification. l

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, and then specicall y designatedby the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same,the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whicha Figure 1 is a front View of a portion of a barn-door having my improvements applied thereto, the door being broken away to better show the same. Fig. 2 is `a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3, an enlarged detail section of tlie grooved wheel, showing the ball-bearing therein. Y

A represents the framework of the wall of the barn above the doorway, and B the barn. door, which consists of the outside sheathing C and the cleat D, which extends horizontally the width of the door near the upper en d thereof. Y

E is the hanger-strap, which may be formed from sheet, wrought, or cast metal, and this hanger-strap is secured to the cleat D before the sheathing C is secured to the cleat and is the sheathing and is let in flush with said face by means of recesses approximately the shape of the diverging strips of the hanger-strap.

F is a guide which is formed of a flat strip of metal bent so as to form an eye F' in the Serial No. 99,008. (No model.)

F2 for securing the strip to the inner face of the hanger-strap. The two ends of the strip extend out from each side of the eye and have holes formed in the ends through which screws F3 may be passed to secure the 4same to the upper edge of the cleat D, Thus this strip not only answers as a guide to keep the Wheel upon the track, but also shows exactly where hanger-strap is to be placed on cleat D and serves as a means for securing the hangerstrap to the upper edge of the cleat.

The upper end of the hanger-strap Eis bent over -back'upo'n itself so as to provide a housing and a double bearing for the wheel Gr.

This wheel G is provided with a hub whichr has two ball-bearing surfaces formed therein, and two cones H are inserted in the hub from each side, and between these cones and the bearing-surfaces upon the interior of the hub of the wheel areplaced the balls I. These cones H when y,placed together are of sufficient width to pass within the-housing formed by the turn-over portion of the strap E, and then a rivet J is passed through the cones H and also through the double bearing provided upon each side of the cone in the strap E. If desired, washers may be placed between the cones and the strap E upon each side and also between the cones themselves in the center for adjustment to make an easy-running wheel.

K is a track which consists of a strip of metal running horizontally, and this track is supported at intervals by the brackets L, through which pass the spike or lag-screws M into the framework of the wall of the barn.

After the strap E has been screwed to the cleat D the'sheathing C may be then placed upon the cleats and the strap E secured to both the cleats and the sheathing by means of the bolts N, which pass through the cleats, sheathing, and strap, and thus the weight of the door comes on the center of thebolts N instead of at one end, as is usually the case, and by placing the hanger inside of the sheathing, so that the wheel comes above the cleat D, said wheel and thereby the track K are brought much closer to the Wall of the barn than is the case with the hangers now in use, and thereby the brackets supporting the track may be much lighter in construction than TOO those commonly used and still support a much heavier door than usually, because of the fact that by being brought closer to the wall the leverage is decreased. In very heavy doors the straps E may be fastened to the cleat D by the guides F and the hangers, together with the cleats, hung upon the track before the sheathing is applied and secure the sheathing to the cleats after said cleats are hung, thereby doing away with the necessity of hanging a heavy door after the same is all put together.

O is the usual inclined drip-cap secured to the framework of the barn-door above the dorway and is for the purpose of protecting the door and the hangers from rain, snow, and the like. With my invention this dripcap O may be made much narrower than in use with ordinary barn-doors, because of the fact that the hangers are upon the inside of the door` and thereby nothing extends out beyond the sheathing of the door to require protection. By placing the hanger upon the inside of the sheathing also allows me to run the sheathing up to the under side of the dripcap O. This `makes a comparatively tight joint to prevent the entrance of cold air, rain, snow, or sleet into the barn. This is a distinct advantage over hangers of usual construction. Upon the upper end of the sheathing I provide an ordinary inclined door-cap P, which iits underneath the drip-cap O and extends over the hanger. This is for the purpose of protecting the hanger and conducting the rain to the outside of the door when the door is standing open or from underneath the drip-cap O.

H aving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis In a device of the character described, a hanger-strap having diverging strips at one end and a housing formed at its opposite end, a wheel journaled in the housing, a cleat having recesses on its inner surface approximately the shape of the diverging strips of the hanger-strap, bolts run through the cleat and sheathing of the door whereby the hanger is secured to a door, a guide having an eye formed intermediately its length and provided with apertures near its ends, said guide adapted to seat on the top edge of the cleat and secured to the cleat by means of nails and to the hanger by a bolt run through the eye and harlger, and a suitable track secured to the wa In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER S. WILSON.

Witnesses:

SARA N. JOHNSON, JOHN R. HOLMES.

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