US536125A - Hinge - Google Patents

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JAMES V. BROWN, OF DE SOTO, ILLINOIS.

HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,125, dated March 19, 1895.

Application filed July 10,1894:- Serial No. 517,047. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES V. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing in De Soto,

in the county of Jackson and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hinges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hinges, the object being to provide an article of the character designated which will combine simplicity, durability and strength and which may be manufactured and supplied to the trade at a greatly reduced cost.

To these ends my invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts, as more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings:Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved hinge and Fig. 2 is a similar view with the parts separated.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts in both figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 2 designate the two hinge sections the former carrying two knuckles and the Latter one knuckle, as shown in Fig. 2.

Each hinge section is formed of a single blank, which is at a suitable point, as at 3, bent at right angles and then doubled upon itself, as at 4 and thereby bringing the end of the strap, upon which the knuckles of the hinge are formed. p I

It is obvious that the two sections should be made of opposite form so that the knuckles of the two leaves, will fit together and allow of the passage therethrough ot the pintle 5. Suitable holes 6, for the purpose of securing the two right-angled parts of each leaf to the object, by means of screws, are formed in the leaves, as shown in Fig. 2. By this construction, in forming the hinge blanks, no waste of material need be had, except that which comes from the'contour of the fancy parts of thesections, and should these parts be made square no waste whatever will occur, as the blank used for each is the same, excepting that the part cut away in leaf 1, to allow of the entrance of the knuckle on leaf 2, forms the knuckle on leaf 2, and vice versa. It will thus be seenthat by forming a die to make the central out between the two parts of the hinge, when both are cut from asingle blank, the part remaining, after one leaf has been out forms the other leaf.

It is obvious, that by doubling the one part of the leaf gives it added strength and therefore giving it a more substantial form. The advantage derived by forming the knuckles at one end of the hinge, is obvious.

It is not necessary that the two parts of each hingesection should be of the same size, as it is often preferable that the doubled part should be smaller in size than the other part of the hinge section.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A hinge, comprising in its construction, two hinge sections, each of which is formed of a'single blank, each blank being bent at right angles and then doubled upon itself, knuckles formed on the ends of the blanks, and a pintle adapted to secure the two hinge sections together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of May, 1894:.

JAMES v. BROWN.

Witnesses G. W. BARNHAR'I, GEO. N. ALBON.

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