US806645A - Gate construction. - Google Patents

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. PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905. G. B. ORAWLEI & E. J. RABB.

GATE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAI), 1905:

. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 No, 806,645. I PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905. G. E. ORAWLEY & E. J. RABB.

GATE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR.9, 1905.

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unirEn STATES GEORGE E. ORAWLEY AND ELMERJ. RABB, oE

GATE CONSTRUCTION.

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CLINTON, INDIANA.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. OEAWLEY and ELMER J. RABB, citizens of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Vermilion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful.Improvements in Gate Construction; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it apper tains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to gate construction, and more particularly to swinging gates; and it consists of certain novel features of con struction and combination of parts, the preferred form whereof will be hereinafter clearly set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

The main object of our invention, among others, is to provide a gate of the character specified which may be very easily controlled and disposed in an open or closed position, as desired, and the parts of which may be cheaply and ex editiously manufactured and readily assemb ed each in its operative position.

A further object of our invention is to provide a gate which will consist of but a few parts, each very sim le in character, whereby the gate willnot be iable toget out of order, or prove inoperative.

Another object is to suspend the gate so that it will be truly counterbalanced, whereby it may be rotated upon its pivot-point and readily o ened from either side and as quickly close I Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter made clearly apparent, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are considered a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of ourgate in a closed position. 'Fig. 2 shows our gate in a partly-open condition. Fig. 3 shows our improved gate slightly lifted, so that stock may walk under the same. Fig. 4' shows our gate both in an elevated and open position. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the supporting-clevis employed by us 1n suspending our gate in its operative position.

For convenience of description thevarious parts of our invention and accessories designed to cooperate therewith will be designated by numerals, the same numeral applying to a similar part throughout the several views, and, referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates the main post, While 2 designates the keeper-post, and 3 the gat'esupporting post proper, which is designed to rotate-in suitable bearings rovided in the bracing section or bar4 an in the block 5, anchored in the ground at the lower end of the auxiliary post 3, as by means of a trunnion (designated by dotted lines 6) entering said block, as will be clearly obvious.

Our improved gate, comprising any desired number of bars or horizontallydisposed members 7, properly connected together by uprights 8, 1s suspended upon the arm or'bracket 9, attached to the upper end of the auxiliary post 3 and braced and reinforced by means .of the member 10 thus providing a strong and reliable means for suspending our gate in its operative position and holding it suspended whether ina closed or partly-open condition, it being understood that the auxiliary post 3 readily turns in its bearings, so as to permit the gate to be opened and closed, as desired. Upon each side of the auxiliary post 3 we provide a supportingbracket 11, upon which the projecting end of one of the gate-bars is designed to rest. In-

like manner we provide upon the keeper-post 2 the supporting-bars 12 and 13, properly secured to the keeper-post in any referred way and of sufficient length to exten beyond each side thereof to afiord a resting-place for one of the extended gate-bars, and it is therefore obvious that our improved gate when in a closed position is disposed with its entire weight upon the members 11 and 13, the office of the member 12 being to prevent the gate from beingraised, as by an animal attem ting to pass under the lower bar.

e now call attention to the preferred means of suspending our improved gate, consisting of a pair of uprights 14, separated sufficiently'to receive between them the gatebars 7 and separated at their lower ends by a block 15 and similarly separated at their upper ends by a block '16, thereby affording space between said.uprights to loosely receive the gate-bars 7, as before explained. The middle uprights 8 of the gate proper are sufficiently separated to loosely receive'be tween them the members 14, above referred free end of the arm or bracket 9 is provided with a substantially L-shaped bolt 19, so mounted in said arm that the lateral extension or finger 20 of said bolt may be freely moved to the right or to the left. The finger 20 is designed to pass loosely through an aperture in the end 21 of the clevis 22, it being understood that said clevis is disposed in engagement with the upper ends of the members 14 by means of the bolt 23 or the equivalent thereof. By thus mounting the L-shaped bolt 19 so that it will freely turn in the end of the arm or bracket 9 the said bolt is left free to rotate in its socket, where it is secured by means of'the nut 24 or equivalent means. By thus mountin our improved gate it follows that after the gate is lifted from the supporting members 11 and 13 it may be turned completely around, incident to the opening thereof.

It is thought from the foregoing descrip- V 7 tion that the construction and operation of our improved gate will be made clearly apparent, though it may be stated that the manner of opening the gate is as follows: If the gate is approached from that side illustrated in Fig. 1, the operator may drive his team closely up to the gate. The operator after thus driving the team closely up to the gate has only to lift the gate from the supports 11 and 13 and move the gate longitudinally sufficiently to permit the end of the gate to pass the keeper-post, when the entire gate may be bodily swung around against the farther checking-post 25, it being understood that one of said posts is provided upon each side of the gate. After the team shall have been driven through, the vehicle may be stopped quite near the keeper-post and still the operator will be enabled to close the gate notwithstandingthe position of the vehicle, the closing being accomplished by'moving the end of the gate contiguous to the bracket 11, so thatit will rest upon the bar 13, thereby completely changing the gate end for end.

Our improved gate may be very readily 7 opened from either side, as before explained,

and since there are two brackets 11 and since the bar 13is of sufficient length to reject upon each side of the keeper-post it fbllows that our gate is provided with a suitable sup port or seat upon either side of the posts 2 and 3. The supporting bracket or arm 9 is thus left directly over the gate when the latter is disposed in a closed position, this result .being accomplished by the lateral extension or finger 20 and, further, by reason of the fact that the said L-shaped bolt is adapted toturn in its seat in said arm. Inasmuch as our gate may be bodily raised and secured at any desired point upon the members 14 by means of the locking-pin 17 engaging one of the recesses 18 our gate may be left in a closed position relative to the posts 2 and 3 and at the same time bodily elevated sulficiently to permit smaller animals to pass freely thereunder and exclude or prevent larger animals from passing through the gate.

Believing that the construction and operation of our improved gate have thus been made clearly apparent, further description is deemed unnecessary.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a rotatable post having an arm extending therefrom and rigidly connected thereto; of an angular member secured to and depending from the arm, a clevis pivoted upon said member, parallel toothed supporting devices pivoted to the clevis and adapted to swing therein and rotate with the clevis, a gate adj ustably mounted at its center between the toothed supporting devices, and means for locking the gate to the supporting devices.

2. The combination with a rotatable post having an arm rigidly connected thereto, of parallel supporting devices suspended from the arm and rotatably connected to it, a gate adjustably mounted at its center between the supporting devices, means for preventing longitudinal movement of the gate between the supporting devices, and a lock for securing the gate in adjusted position between its supporting devices.

3. The combination with a rotatable post having an arm rigidly connected thereto, brackets upon the post, a fixed post having a gate-supporting means thereon; of supporting devices suspended from and movably connected to the arm, a gate adjustably mounted at its center between the supporting devices and adapted to engage the brackets and supporting means upon the posts, means for preventing longitudinal movement of the gate between its central supporting devices, and a lock for holding the gate iii-adjusted position.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. CRAWLEY. ELMER J. RABB.

Witnesses R. A. ALLEN, O. MARsHALL.

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