US1311651A - Hinge - Google Patents

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J. KANSTER.

HINGE.

APPLICATION FILE-D NOV. 21. 19-11.

Patented July 29, 1919.

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f QENEWQEK, ,r nsE'Y, Assrqiron. or QfiE THIRD .TD mno xms J. WALSH A NnoNE-rmmmo FRANK WALSH, BOTH- OFNEWARK, NEW, JERSEY.

' (HINGE,

To all whom it mayc'o'm'cem 136 itknown that- I,- J A0013 lemme; a -citizen "of the United States', and a "resident of Newark, county o'f E'sseX, and State fo'f New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 'in =Hing'es,-' or which i the following is'aspecification.

My 4 invention relates i "to hinges. While the hinge Of the {present invention is mo're particularly designed for 'hin-gedly-securing a wa'shtub cover onstmeteu in hfifiihner disclosed 1n my former Patent No.

1,223,588, granted to me on April--24, 1 917, for washtub c0vers,"t'0 afbac'k board, hinges l in accordance-with the present inventien are of general application and maybe made use of wherever a strong, substanti al"hinge-is desired.

The obj ect' of the present invention is the improvement of hinges in a numberbf" important particulars, as will be 5 hereafter In the accompanying 'drawing formin part of this specification, -a rid wherein the same reference numera1sareuniformly used to designate the *same partsi threughout, 'Fi-gur'el isa plan*v-iewshowihgmy proved hinge -in use fer connecting awashtub cover to abaekboard; Fig, 2 is Fig. *1. Fig; 3 is a plan view of the hinge member here shown as connected to the washtub cover; the same being shown tu'rned through an angle correspondin to the an le'wwhich such member is "turned in-Fig. =2. Fig.4is a l front "view 6f the hinge 1 5 member here shown connected to "the back board, and Fig. "'5 "is -=a detail view' sho'wing modifie'd forms of openings inone ofthe tangs o'f-the hinge-member=shown in Fig. 4e. r 111 thedrawing rzference n'umeral -1-0 is applied to designate? the "back "board which may" be secured" tot-he: rearsideof a washtub o'rfis'eriesof washtubspladed side by side, and 11 designates A a iwashtub cover such as disclosed in my former'patent 'a b'ove re ferred to, 12 is the hinge member which in-the form show n -issecured to the back board 10, and 13 the hinge member secured to the tub cover" 11. These *members 12 and V di piicatiu'ii mdwb'vhber 27/1917.- "seriariwo. 204,140.-

' -13 areiform'e'd from sheetmetal, as steel and so forth, preferably "by stamping operation or operations, and in the form shown the member' le "is provided *with a central pintle *-'socket 1 1, "and the member 13 with a pair of pintle- s0ekets 15, 15,- one on each side *"thereof, between which the" p'intle "socket 14 E "received aiidthe hiDged connection" in: the

femn' shown-is' obtainedby means of mpi'nfle I 16 which is passed through the alined 1 ope-n- :ing's in"tl- 1e s0ckets 14 and 15,-"15. "Pintles of-"v arious {sorts may be used and they may "be retained in -place in the sockets iprovided "therefor by "any suitable means. I prefer to make the pintle 16 of substantially straight=eylindriea1 form as by cutting it off "from wire or ro'd, and-when a'pi11tle ofsuch 'for-m is 'usedit preferably has a tightht in the pintle' -socket l4 and a slightly loose fit in the piiitle s0'c'kets15,orvice versa, so that 'the tub" cover or other hinged-"device can be turned readily and "at the same time 1 the pintle 'will *remain in place after insertion exeept'wvhen fercibly removed-as driving "itout by m'eairs 6f ap-[inch orot-her tool. Themember 12 is provided with sharpened tangs 17 and 18 whiclraredriven' into the 'objeet tOWVlIiClYthe member "12 is" to be fas tened, *herethe back board of awa'shtu-b eever. The tangs I7 and '18 are integral with the member "-12 and in the form shown the tang 17, nearest the pintle socket 14, is formed by stamping out the 'meta1of the member Q2, leaving anwpmiing 19 which "may-be e-merged somewhat be'ye'nd the extent-of metal bent over to form thetang 17 toprovideanopening 1915f pleasing propertions iil'fd appearance, and the 1 tan-g 18 is'fOrmed by bending over that end ofthe member remote from the pintle'socket' 14, both the tan-gs 17 and 18- being preferably sharpened to a point so that they may readily-*be driven into" the board or other object to 's'whieh the meniberlQ is tobe secured. The tang-17km provided with-a h01e 20 for the-=reception of a fastening means, as a nail 21, whieh is shown "-as driven through the edge (if the back board 10 and through the waning-:20, and the member 18} is also Z provided I with an opefii ng 22 which ma have the 5 form ere circular *hele" or -be-of ether -forms-= as, F fer example, a= slot- 22 may be provided whi'ehi is preferably "eloii'g'ate'd in a direction parallel to the upper surface "of themember '12, Gr if "desired anu'mber "of p fi t n If Letters Patent i P-a tented au1y.29,;1919. I

openings 22 of circular or other 0 111 may be resorted to. Where the nail 21 is driven without special guiding apparatus,"the use of slots orof a plurality of holes in the tang" 18 is preferable as affording better opportunity for the point of the nail 21 to enter the same, but where the nail 21 is driven with" the'use of a templet or accurate guid ing means of any sort, the singlehole 22 is ample. The nail 21 extending through the openings and 22 is substantially parallel tothe outer surface of the member 12, as

will be apparent.

The member 13, here shown as secured to the tub cover 11, comprises a top plate 23 the opening 24 in thetop platemember 23,

preferably parallel to the web 25. curing the member 13 to the tub cover 11 an opening28 is preferably formed inthe metal 29 of the tub coverat the rear edge thereof, throughwhich the tang 26 is driven into the wooden frame 30 of the tub cover, and a which opening. 27 may be of circular form -.or may beof slot form, and if the slot form is resortedjtoit has its longest dimension In sefastening member, as a nail 31, is passed, as

by driving, through thealined openings 2 1 and 28, and if a nail is used it is preferably of such length as to clench, as shown at 32,

on being driven home, against the metal plate 33 on the bottom ofthe cover frame 30. Thenail 31, when in place, is substantially at right angles to the top plate 23 of the hingemember 13, and the two nails 21 and 31 are substantially at right angles to one another in the normal closed position of the hinged members. The top plate 23 may also be formed as a tang and be driven into the wood, and. various other modifications may bemade.

Itwill be seen that numerous advantages are secured witha hinge constructed in accordance with my invention. The hinges may be madefrom sheet metalby a simple stamping operation or operations, the material used is inexpensive and where material such as steel is used, which might rust on continued exposure to dampness, as in the case of use as a tub cover, it may be readily protected by being given a suitable coating, as by being dipped in a galvanizing bath of the like, they maybe securely and strongly fastened to the members to which theyare to be attached, as the tub cover and back board, by simple driving operations, entirely dispensing with the use of screws which are expensive, and by being provided with the alined openings into which nails or other fastening members are driven, they are strongly and securely held resort to numerous modifications I andcannot'work loose, the exposed portions thereof present a novel and pleasing appearance and a great saving-and economy of time'is' secured by the mode of fastening the improved hinge in place, it being possible, for example, for a workman to secure and assemble several times as many of the hinges-in accordance with thepresent in 3 81113 1011 as can be done in the same time vention-only, and thatfI am not to be confined to such specificembodiment, but may and changes within the scope-of my claims withoutdepartingfrom my invention or sacri- .ficing the advantages there0f.

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1. A struck up sheet metal hinge, a memberwhereof is provided with a plurality of sharpened tangs located at a substantial distance apart, and said tangs being .pro-

.vided with substantially alined openings.

2. A struck up sheet metal hinge, one of the members whereof has sharpened tangs provided with substantially alined openings, and the other member whereof is proa vided with a sharpened tangand asurface plate, said 'tangand surfaceplatehaving substantial alined openings.

3. A struck up sheet metal hinge, one of p;-

the members whereof comprises asurface plate and a pintle socket and two separate integral tangs extending at right angles to the surface plate, one of said tangs being adjacent to the pintle socket and struck out of the material-of the face. plate and leaving an openingthere'in, and the other being 'at the end of the face plate remote from the pintle socket, said tangs having I substantially alined openings therein adapted to receive a nail driven substantially .parallel to the face plate, and the other member whereof comprisesa surfaceplate, a web and a tang, the tang extending substantially parallel to the surface plate, andsaid surface plate I and tang being provided with substantially alined openings therein to receive a nail driven substantially at right angles to the surface plate, and. said-member having a pair of pintle sockets between which the pintlesocket on the other member of the hinge is adapted to be received, and a pintle passing through the alined pintle sockets.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereto set my hand this 23rd day of November, 1917. V

JAcoB KANSTER.

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