US854789A - Door-hanger and means to prevent the swaying of doors. - Google Patents

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No. 854,789.. PATENTED MAY 28, 1907. J. WOYAK. DOOR HANGER AND MEANS TO PREVENT THE SWAYING OP DOORS. APPLIQVATION FILED MARJZ, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH WOYAK, OFMILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, I .DOO'FFHANGER AND MEANS o. FREVENT THE SWAYING OF oooRsL'l no. 854,789i

. Be it known-that I, 'JosEPmWoYAK, a citi- .zen of the United States, and a resident of thecounty of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented'certain i new and useful Hangers and Means to Prevent Swaying of Doors; and Ido hereby declare that the fol lowing is a full, clear,

Milwaukee, in

Improvements in Doorand exact description thereof I v I The improvements consist in what is herein shown, described and claimed the object with simple, economical roller-hangers and sway-guards, in combination with housed tracks for the rollers and stay-rails enga' ing said guards,- said invention being especially ap licable to slide doorsof freight cars.

igurel of the accompanying drawings represents a side elevation of a, slide-door provided with tures in accordance with my invention, the track housing forlts roller- Bald housing and rail being broken away.

Fig. '2 of verse sectional view indlcated by lines 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A dicates a sliding door provided with hangers a pair of angular plates B Y C, fitting one upon the other and bolted td the door, the upper portions of the plates being suitably bent in opposite directions, to

' bolted or form housings for rollers D, 'E that turn on an axle F mounted in parallel vertical portions of said plates and the recur'ved u per ends of same. The rollers run on the tom track-portions of an angular housing'G otherwise fastened to the side-of a freight-car, barn-wall or other support having an opening therein'for which the. door serves as a sliding closure.

' Bolted to the lower portionof the door are sway-guards, each of prises a pair of an ular plates H, I, fitting one u on the other iutin some instances the plate will be a sufficient sway-guards Each Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed Mareh-12y1907. Serial No- 362,040.

ing a hangers, and the stay-railfor its sway-guards,

1 angular plates fittin which preferably com-- Patented May 28, 1907.

under a flange of a T-rail J bolted to thecarplate H has its lower end bent inward at a right-angle to'the remainder thereof to'come 5 blocks K bein employed between said'rail' andfsupport'. I inward at a right-angle paralle to the lower edge of the doorand then at a double righthe companion-plate I is bent angle to come under the flange of the rail J aforesaid, whereby outward sway of said door is prevented. The sway-guards also prevent vertical displacement of the door. of the invention being to provideslide-doors I claim:

the-0t poslte directions to form housings, an ai: o mounted in parallel vertical port ons of the 1. The combinationof a door, hangers in rigid connection therewith and each compris-j air of angular plates fitting'one. upon er, their upper ends being bent in o plates and the recurvedupper ends of same,

and rollers on the axle within the housings; tracks for the rollers,

2'. The combination of a door, roller-hangtrack, a late fastened to the to extend and then at adouble ri rail having a flange t guard.

3. The combinationof a 'sway-guards-rigidly secured to the lower portion of the door; and a stay-rail opposing said guards.

said drawings represents a trans i 'JOIIer-hang z glde connectlon therewith, a roll 'ers in rigid connection there 'th, a- ;roller or and bent parallel to the lower edge of sametrack, sway guards each comprising a air of rlgid connection wit one upon the ot erp'in the door, and a stay- L rall having flanges with which the ends of the i sway-guard plates are parallel under the same.

' In testimony-that I claim the foregping-I ee,.in

Milwaukee and State of'Wis-f presence of two witnesses;

JOSEPH woYAn,

have hereunto set my hand at Milwau the county of consm'in the Witnesses:

F. S. SMITH, EDWARD KUNovsKr.

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