US647943A - Gate. - Google Patents

Description

No. 647,943. Patented Apr. 24, I900.

W. H. COFFMAN.

GATE.

(Application filed July 13, 1899.)

NiT ED SATES Area I GATE.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,943, dated April 24, 1900.

Application filed July 13, 1899. Serial No. 723,724. (No model.)

capable of enabling a gate to be readily op-- erated at a distance from it and adapted to open the gate away from the operator. r

. The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a gate constructed in accordance with this invention.

tional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the inner portion of one of the operating-levers.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures ofthe drawings. r

1 designates a swinging gate hinged to a support composed of a vertical post 2 and a horizontal bar 3, located near the top of the post and extending from opposite sides thereof to form a pair of supporting-arms. The lower end of the gate is provided with an eye 4, which receives an upwardly-extending pintle 5 of the post 2, whereby the gate is hinged to the support at the bottom thereof. The upper end of the inner end bar 6 of the gate is provided with a pintle 7, which is arranged within a substantially triangular frame 8, projecting from the upper portion of the post and adapted to permit the gate to be tilted rearward in opening it, whereby the gate is disengaged from a keeper 9 of a latch-post 10. The triangular frame 8 consists of forwardlyconverging side portions, a transverse c011- necting portion 11, and a pair of rearwardlyextending arms 12. The transverse connecting portion is arranged on the front face of the post 2, and the rearwardly-extending Fig. 2 is a horizontal sec arms embrace the side, faces of the post and are secured to the same by suitable fastening devices, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings;

The upper portion of the inner end bar of the gate is rounded, and a pair of operatingsupport, extend from the guide-pulleys in opposite directions and are secured at their outer ends to substantially L-shaped operating-levers 16. The L-shaped operating-levers have long ends disposed longitudinally of the roadway and adapted to be grasped to open and close the gate, and the shorter arms 17 depend from the inner portions of the levers and are fulcrumed'on posts 18, located at opposite sides of the post 2. The

arms of the levers are constructed of separate pieces secured together adjacent to their inner ends to form projections 19. and 20. The projection 19, which extends upward, is located above the longitudinal arm of the lever and is provided with a groove to receive the flexible connection, which is attached to l the longitudinal arm at a point beyond the projection 19. The other projection 20 extends inward longitudinally of the long arm of the lever and is provided with a notch 21, adapted to receive the flexible connection when the outer portion of the lever is swung downward sufficiently to carry the said projection 20 into engagement with the rope or cable 13. As the flexible connections cross the supporting-frame at the back thereof and extend around the post 2, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, the gate is opened and swung away from the operator by depressing either one of the operating-levers. After a person passes through the gateway the gate is closed by de pressing the other operating-lever.

The keeper 9 consists of a pair of beveled projections, and the latch may be of any desired construction; but as shown it consists of a depressible spring 22, mounted on the end of the gate and adapted to engage the keeper and fit between the projections, which are spaced apart, as clearly'shown in Fig. 1.

The invention has the following advantages: The gate, which is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, is positive and reliable in operation and is adapted to be readily operated at a distance from either side of it, and when operated it always opens away from the operator. When one of the operating-levers is depressed, the gate is tilted rearwardly to disengage the latch from the keeper and it issimultaneously swunglaterally by the. flexible connection between the levers and theupper end of the inner end bar of the gate.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction, such as vary ing the means for connecting the lower ends of the ropes or cables to the gate, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any part of the advantages of the invention.

What is claimed is 1. The combination of a support, a gate hinged to the support, flexible connections extending from opposite sides of the gate and connected with the same, and the substantially L-shaped operating-levers fulorumed at one end and having the connections secured to them adjacent to their angles, said levers having their angles engaging the' connections at points between the ends thereof, substan tially described.

2. The combination of a post 2, a horizontal bar 3 secured to the post and extended from opposite sides thereof, guide-pulleys mounted on the bar and located at the sides of the post 2, an open frame projecting from the front of the said post 2, a gate hinged at its bottom and provided at its top with a pintle arranged within the said frame, flexible connections extending from the gate,passing around the pulleys and crossing the post 2 at the back thereof, and substantially L-.- shaped operating-levers fulcrumed at the outer ends of their short arms, said operatinglevers having their angles engaging the fiexi= ble connections, substantially as described.

3. The combination of' a support, a gate hinged to the support, pulleys mounted on the support at opposite sides of the gate, flexible connections extending from the gate, passing around the pulleys and crossing the support at the back thereof, and the substantially L- shaped operating-levers having short arms fulcrumed at their outer ends, said operatinglevers being provided at their angles with projections, grooved to receive the flexible connections, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. I

.WILLIAM H. COFFMAN.

Witnesses:

PETER BALHVINE, WM. MILLER.

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