US144971A - Improvement in shutter-hinges - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE.

WILLIAM FOSKET, or MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR To CHARLES PARKER, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTER-HINGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144.971, dated November 25, 1873; application filed October 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TILLIAM FOSKET,Of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Shutter-Hinge and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view Fig. 2, a top view Fig. 3, a rear view; and, in Fig. 4, a rear view in the position as when open.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of shutter-bin ges which are designed to hold the shutter in an open position, and particularly to that class in which a flange on the swinging part, when opened, drops behind a corresponding flange on the stationary portion, and from which position it must be raised before the shutter can be closed. This class of hinges has usually been constructed with the flange parallel to the face of the hinge and inclined upon the inner surface, so that a certain amount of power applied to the shutter would cause one part of the hinge to ride up one part of the other. An incline has been formed at the pintle for the purpose of raising the swinging portion of the hinge. In all of "these a difficulty occurs when the hinge gets slightly turned out of position, or when one part is out of line with the other; such a con dition is unavoidable after alittle use. In

'such case the incline at the pintle is not sufficient to raise the swinging portion so that the outer end of one flange will clear the flange of the other, or the point of the flange on the swinging portion will not readily rise up the To overcome these difliculties is the object of my invention; and it consists in forming the loose or swinging portion of the hinge with an elongated opening for the pintle, and forming the other portion with a flange which turns at right angles at or near the extreme ends, so that when the swinging part passes over the flange it will, by the rightangled portion, be thrown transversely, the elongated opening at the pintle allowing such movement, and so that in closing, if the shutter be forced transversely, the end of the flange on the swinging portion of the hinge will ride up the end or right-angled flange 'clear of the locking-flange, as more fully hereinafter deangles, or nearly so, forming a flange, D, and

this is inclined uponthe inside, as seen in Fig. 3, at an angle of about forty-five degrees. The other leaf or portion, E E, of the hinge, which is secured to the shutter, is formed-with an elongated opening, F, so as to set over the pintle and turn thereon, as in other hinges of this class. The plate E is formed with a flange, G, corresponding to the flange (J, and so that, when the hinge is open, it will drop behind the flange O. The end or nose of the flange, G, as at a, is inclined corresponding to the inclination of the flange D, and as the part E drops over the flange of the part A the flange D will cause the hinge to be thrown back upon the pintle, the elongated opening in the part E allowing such movement; therefore, if the sh utter be pressed in the opposite direction-that is, so as to force the nose of the flange G against the flange D-it will easily ride up that flange and carry the flange G above the flange C, so as to pass over and allow the shutterto be closed.

If, as is often the case, the hinge, from use, gets turned out of positionsay, as denoted by the broken lines in Fig. 4-the action between the flange G and the flange D will be the same, although the other end of the part E does not lie down upon the pintle.

By the employment of the flange D and the elongated opening F the meeting surfaces of the two flanges O and G may be very nearly vertical, and thus more firmly hold the shutter in an open position. By the employment of the flange D, I am enabled 'to form a dead look by making a portion of the flange G at the outer end vertical, as at 12, Figs. 3 and 5, and a corresponding vertical portion, m, on the flange G. This vertical portion on the flange O is on the outer end or near the flange D, so that, when the part E is raised to that point,

the lock becomes dead, and is only released 2. The plate A,'provided with the pintle B, by a longitudinal movement running up the the flanges C and D, at right angles, or nearly flange D to throw the flange G from its look so, to each other, combined with the plate E, on the flange O. elongated opening F, and fit nge G, when the I claim as my inventionsaid flanges O and G are constructed with a l. The plate A, provided with the pintle B, portion of their surfaces, 1 on, vertical, so as to the flange G, and the flange D, at right angles, form a deadlock, substantially as described.

or nearly so, to the flange 0, combined with WM. FOSKET.- the plate'E, provided with an elongated open- Vvitnesses: 7

ing, F, for the pintle, and the flange G, sub- A. J. TIBBITS,

stantially as and for the purpose described. J. H. SHUMWAY.

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