US1220356A - Hinge. - Google Patents

Description

C. McCULLEY.

H was. APPLICATION H LED MAY 19. 1916- v 1 229 356 Patented Mar. 2?, 1917;

amen/tom CHARLIE MCCULLEY, F ALDRICH, MISSOURI.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dial. 2'7, 1917.

Application filed May 19, 1916. Serial No. 98,648.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLIE IVICCULLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aldrich, in the county of Polk, State of Missouri, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention belongs to the class of hinges, and has particular reference to a hinge which is adapted for mounting gates.

The primary object of my invention is to construct a hinge which is particularly advantageous for use in connection with metal fences. Heretofore difliculty has been eX- perienced, in mounting the gates upon metal fences in clamping the hinge tightly enough to the fence to prevent it from gradually slipping down upon the fence post, and thereby allowing the gate to sag.

The present inventionis intended to correct the above fault, and consists in theprovision of clamping members which not only draw around a fence post, but cooperate with a means for causing the hinge or bracket element to be braced against the post, so that it is impossible for the hinge to slip downwardly thereon.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear, my invention will now be fully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In said drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of the assembled hinge, as the latter is carried by a post,

Fig. 2 is a plan View,

Fig. 3 is an elevation, showing the jaws of the clamping element open, and

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the clamped portion.

Referring more particularly to said drawings, 1 indicates the body of the post bracket, which carries the pintle 2, upon which the eye 3 of the section 4 of the hinge is adapted to engage. The section 4 consists of a body having parallel walls 5, said walls 5 being adapted to engage'upon opposite sides of the gate and to be bolted thereto by bolts 6.

The body 1 has extending from one side thereof, as an integral or rigid part thereof, a curved aw or clamp section 7, said clamp section being reduced at one end to provide the threaded projection 8. Upon the opposite side of the body 1 is formed a lug 9 which is formed at its end into the projection 10 upon which the forked or bifurcated end of a jaw or clamped section 11 is pivoted, as by the rivet 12. The outer or free end of the jaw o-r clamp section 11 is also reduced and threaded at 13, to correspond to the threaded projection 8. Thus, the section 11 is hinged with respect to the section 7, and the two sections are adapted to encircle the post of an iron fence.

Referring to Fig. 4, it will be noted that the jaws 7 and 11 are shaped so that the threaded projections 8 and 13 overlie one another in oppositely extending directions, the projection 8 being elevated above the horizontal plane of the projection 18. In order to draw the elements together around a post, a link 14 is provided, said link having upper and lower openings 15 (shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 4) through which the threaded projections 8 and 13 are adapt ed to pass. Upon the opposite sides of the link 14 the ends of the projections 8 and 13 are provided with nuts 16 which bear against said sides, and serve to draw the jaws together around the post.

Extending below the jaws 7 and 11 the body 1 is provided with a foot 17, which is tapered downwardly, and is adapted, when the jaws 7 and 11 are tightened to bear against the post in the form of a brace. The inner face of the foot 17 is provided with a sharpened teat 18 which is adapted to bite into the post when the clamps are drawn together. 7

From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have provided an improved clamping device by means of which an added purchase is secured for the purpose of drawing the jaws of the clamp into tight relation with a fence post, and that I have also added to the effectiveness of the clamp by providing the brace foot 17 and the coacting teat 18.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a gate hinge, the combination with a body provided with a pintle, of clamping jaws mounted on said body in relatively hinged relation, said jaws being adapted to surround a post and having their ends overlapped, a link having both of said aws projected therethrough, and nuts upon the projecting ends and bearing against opposite sides of said link to draw the jaws together.

2. In a gate hinge, the combination with a body provided with a pintle, of clamping to bear against the post as the clampingjaws 1o jaws mounted on said body in relatively are drawn together.

hinged relation, said jawsbeing adapted to In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, fulTOlcilIld. a1 p(l)st (aind hczfving then-lends gver in the presence of two Witnesses.

appe a in: a apte to have tie en s 0 said jaws projected therethrough, and means CHARLIE MCGULLEY' coacting with said link for drawing said Witnesses:

jaws tight around a post, and a bracing ele- A. MoDERMrr'r,

ment extending below said aws, in position A. E. PHILLIPS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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