US1232048A - Gate-hinge. - Google Patents

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H. KOLKNIEHR.

GATE HINGE.

APPLICAUON FILED 0m11.191s.

Patented July 3, 1.917.v

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HENRY KOLKMEIER, OF ST. PETERS, MISSOURI.

GATE-HINGE.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917.

f Application led October 11, 1916. Serial No. 125,022.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY KoLKMEmR, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Peters, in the county of St. Charles and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Gate- Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges, more particularly to devices of this character employed for supporting gates and like structures, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed hinge which may be formed principally from band metal and readily adaptable to posts of various sizes and shapes Without material structural change.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a hinge post and a portion of a gate with the improved hinge applied,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the post portion of the hinge device with the post in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 represents disconnected perspective views of the parts of the hinge device shown in Fig. 2,

Fig. .1i is a detached perspective of one of the hinge pins,

Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of the hinge members which are carried by the gate.

The improved device includes a band formed of coacting members 10*11 and adapted to bear against opposite sides of a post represented conventionally at 12. One of the band members, for instance, the member 11 is extended at one end and is formed into an eye 13, the terminal of the eye being secured to the body of the band by a clamp bolt 14 or like device. Formed in the member 11 adjacent to the clamp bolt 14: is a longitudinally directed slot 15. The band member 10 is formed with a barbed terminal 1G adapted to be inserted through the slot 15, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and thus unite the band members at the side of the post neXt to the eye 13. At their opposite ends, the band members 10 and 11` are perforated to receive byd which the band members are clamped firmly to the post. By this simple means, when the bolt 17 is applied and its nut actuated by a wrench or other suitable implement, the slot 15 and the barbed terminal 16 in co-action with the bolt 17, will cause the band to be firmly gripped upon the post and held in position thereon and effectually prevented from slipping under the severe strains to which it will be subjected.

Engaging' in the eye 13 is a hinge pin 18 having an intermediate stop shoulder' 19 bearing upon the upper edge of the eye and a lateral offset 22 at the upper end. The portion of the pin 18 adjacent to the stop shoulder 19 is adapted to receive the hinge member 20 of the gate, a portion of which is represented conventionally at 21. Each of the members 20 is formed from a section of strap shaped metal bent intermediate its ends to form lcontacting sides and enlarged into a loop 24 at the bend to receive the portion of the pin 18 above the shoulder 19, the parts being separated at the juncture of the contacting sides and loop to form a recess or socket 23 to receive the offset 22 of the pin and thus permit the member 2O to be mounted upon the pin but irremovable therefrom until the gate is disposed in a certain predetermined position or with the offsets registering with the recesses, preferably when the gate is about half way open.

By this arrangement, the gate can be supported from the post without forming holes in the post or otherwise weakening or mutilating it.

The holding members 11h12 may likewise be adjusted upon the post to any required eXtent and readily adapted without structural change to gates of various sizes and removed or attached by anyI person without previous skill or knowledge.

Having thus described my inventionnvhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a hinge, a band including coacting members adapted to encompass a post, one of said members extended and formed into a pin receiving eye and with a longitudinal slot adjacent to the eye, and the other band member formed with a barbed terminal to engage in the slot, and means for clamping the other ends of the band members to apply strain thereto to hold them to the post.

a clamp bolt 17 2. In an Vappnretws of the elass described, toyengege the pn,;,thc e` parts fof the strap at a device adapted to be attached t0. essuppert Lheiuncture of the loop and the contacting and including an eye, e pin engaging n sides being separated to form e recess to re- 10 said eye and having a, lateral *e-'setat *the ceivethe*bisetofthe pin.

5 upper end, and a hinge member formed In testimony whereof I afHX my signature..

from a, strap bent intermediate the ends to form contacting sides, and e loopnt thebend y HENRY KOLKMEIER. ,[L. e]

Copies of this patent mayfbe'lqbtrarinedrfor five centsfeaeh-,abyaddressingethe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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