US821793A - Gate. - Google Patents

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No. 821,798. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

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No. 821,793- PATENTED MAY 29, 1906. J. FEARS.

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APPLICATION FILED 0OT.6. 1906.

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latented. May 29, 1906.

Application filed October 6, 1905. Serial No. 281,691-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN FEARS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Timpson, in the county of Shelby and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention embodies improvements in gates, and relates particularly to the provision of special operating mechanism for opening and closing the gate, as will be more fully disclosed hereinafter.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on theline X X of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings the numeral 1 denotes the gate, and the same may be of any suitable construction embodying, preferably, the vertical end bars 2 and the longitudinal bars or rails 3. The gate 1 is of the horizontallyswinging type and is suitably pivoted to the gatepost 4 in the customary way. post 5 is provided with a catch-plate 6, adapted to be engaged by a latch-bar 7, carried by the gate. The latch-bar 7 is horizontally slidable on the gate 1 and is preferably supported upon one of the longitudinal rails or bars 3 thereof. The outer end of the latchbar 7 is adapted to engage the catch-plate 6, and the bar 7 is provided with a longitudinal slot 8 at a point between its ends, a headed guide-pin 9 projecting upwardly from the rail 3, carrying the latch-bar and passing through the slot 8, so as to guide the member 7 1n its longitudinal movement. The end of the latch-bar 7 adjacent the pivoted end of the gate 1 passes through the vertical bar 2, which is hinged to the gate-post 1 so that said bar 2 coacts with the guide-pin 9 in guiding the movement of the member 7 as it is engaged with and disengaged from the catch-plate 6.

The latch-bar 7 is rovided with an enlargement 10, near the inner end portion A latch between the enlargement 10 and the vertical bar 2 of the gate, which is hingedly connected with the post 4. The spring 11 surrounds the end portion of the latch-bar 7 and said spring normally coacts with the member 7 to hold the latter in engagement with the catchplate 6.

The operating mechanism, by which both the gate 1 and the latch-bar 7 are operated, includes the provision of supporting-posts 12, which are located upon opposite sides of the gate-post 4 some distance from the gate. The supporting-posts 12 carry suitable levers 13, connected by rods 14 with a vertical crank-shaft 15, mounted on the gate 1. The crank-shaft 15 is journaled in the rail or bar 3 just above that upon which the latch-bar 7 is slidably mounted, and projecting from the crankshaft 15 is a crank-arm 16, to which the rods 14 are directly attached at one end. The arm 16 projects from the upper end of the shaft 15, and from the lower end of said shaft project the oppositely-extending lugs 17, said lugs being arranged in the opening 10 of the latch-bar 7. When the crank-arm 16 is actuated by the lever 13 upon one side of the gate, the shaft 15 will be turned and one of the lugs 17 will engage the side of the openin 10 adjacent the spring 11, and by so doing t e latch-bar 7 will be moved longitudinally against the tension of the spring 11, and thereby disengaged from the latch-plate 6. The pull upon the crank-arm 16, which causes actuation of thelatch-bar 7, as above described, also pulls the gate open as soon as the latch-bar has been disengaged from the latch-post.

In general operation it is designed that the supporting-posts 12 be so arrangedu on opposite sides of the gate that the passerytraveling either on foot, in a vehicle, or otherwise can readily grasp one of the levers 13 as he approaches the gate, and by actuating the same he will pull upon the rod 14, connected therewith. The crank-shaft 15 will be actuated by such movement of the'rod 14, the latch-bar 7 will be disengaged-from the catchplate 6, and the gate 1 will simultaneously swing open, permitting thepasser-by to pass therethrough. Having passed through the gate, the passer-by grasps the lever 13 on this side and actuating the same will force the gate closed in a manner which will be readily obvious.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new 1s In combination, a gate embodying longitudinal bars or rails, a latch-post, a latch-bar slidably mounted for movement longitudinally on one of the longitudinal rails of the gate, a'spring coacting with the latch-bar to normally hold the same in engagement with the latch-post, the latch-bar being rovided with an opening at a point in its ength, a crank-shaft extended at an angle to the latch-bar and mounted on the gate, oppo= sitely-pr0j ecting lugs extending from the crank-shaft andoperating in the openingof the latch-bar,- supporting-posts on opposite sides'of the gate, operating mechanism on said supportingosts and connected with the crank-shaft of t e gate, and guide means for guiding the latch-bar in its movement.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FEARS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

W. F. ANDRnWs, B. J. HAWTHORN.

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