USRE7187E - Improvement in farm-gates - Google Patents

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A. BRINKERHOFF.

FARM GATE.

Ressued June 27,1876.

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AMOS BRINKERHOFF, OF GOLDEN OORNERS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATES.

Speciiication forming part of LettersPatent No. 170,517, dated November 30, 1875; reissue No. 7,187, 'dated June 27, 1876; application iled February 117 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos BRINKERHOEF, of Golden Corners, in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates for Land Inclosures; and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which, with the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part of this specification, fully shows my said invention and improvement.

Ihe object of my invention is to construct a swinging farm-gate, which can be easily elevated for the passage of small stock beneath it, and also for swinging clear of obstacles, as will be hereinafter described.

The drawings, in full lilies, represent the gate when caught in the ordinary situation. rIlhe dotted lines represent the gate when elevated and latched. By the combination of the girt-brace c, slide-bar d, slide-bar pin j', Vertical slots c and lc, latch g, latch-spring h, screw-bolts I, groove J, bars o, and gateposts D, the gate can be elevated and latched, as shown by dotted drawing B, at any elevation desired, by a proper adjustment of the slide-4 slots c, the latch g, by entering the groove J in post D, preventing the horizontal swinging of the gate.

If it be desired to leave the gate open, it can prevented from swinging by removing slide-bar pin j', which being done the front end of the gate will drop to the ground, and, if desired, can be there secured by placing slide-bar pin r in slide-bar d at rear side of vertical slots c, as before stated.

The grt-bracee may be made of wood or iron, and should be pivoted to the rear vertical slots at I, at or near the top, and the lower and forward end pivoted to the rear end of slide-bar d. rIhe girtbrace is to be doublethat is, a brace to pass on cach side of the bars o.

The latch g is kept in place in the groove J, in the gatepost D, by the spring It, which Inay be made of ordinary steel-wire. It must be pushed back to Withdraw its outer end out of the groove J.

What I claim is- The combination of the sliding bar d, girtbrace e, sliding-bar pins f and n, and pivoted vertical slots c and bars o, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 8th day of February, A. D. 1876, in presence of two witnesses.

AMOS BRINKERHOFF.

Witnesses:

PETER STATE, J. W. BAUGHMAN.

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