US591687A - Pettit - Google Patents

Description

G. W. PETTIT.

GATE.

(No Model.)

No. 591,687. Patented Oct. 12,1897.

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WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE WASHINGTON PETTIT, OF AMMA, WEST VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 591,687, dated October 12, 1897; Application filed June 1, 1897. Serial No. 639,015. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE WASHINGTON PETTIT, of Amma, in the county of Roane and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Gate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved gate, more especially designed as a farmyard or garden gate, and which is simple and durable in construction, self-closing, and arranged to move upward on opening to free the bottom of the gate from snow and mud, the gate being also arranged to prevent animals from unlatching and opening the gate.

The invention consists principally of two latches arranged approximately at right angles one to the other and keepers adapted to be engaged by the said latches and also standing at right angles to each other.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form of the improvement, and Fig. 4 is a face View of the keepers for the modified form shown in Fig. 3.

The gate A is formed by suitable standards and rails and is mounted to turn on and to slide vertically on a pivot B, secured in the ground or to adjacent fence-posts, as the case may be. On the gate A is pivoted a horizontally-disposed latch 0, adapted to engage a keeper D, and on the said gate, at the free end thereof, is arranged a second latch E, disposed vertically and adapted to engage with its lower free end a keeper F, which, like the keeper D, is secured to the fence-post G. The notch in the keeper D for receiving the latch 0 extends longitudinally, while the notch in the keeper F for receiving the free end of the latch E is disposed vertically, so that on lifting the gate the latch E always remains in engagement with its keeper F, so that dogs, hogs, and like animals getting under the gate and lifting the same cannot open it. latch O is preferably of the gravity kind, while the latch E is preferably made in the form of'a spring arm, secured to the free end of the gate, as indicated in the drawings. The latch O is connected by a rope or rod H to the peripheral'surface of a wheel I, journaled on the free end of the gate and provided with a handle I for turning the wheel, so as to exert an upward pull on the rope or rod H to lift the latch C out of engagement with the keeper D whenever it is desired to open the gate A, said latch 0 being also connected by a rope H with the free end of the latch E, so that when the latch O is lifted a pull is exerted by the rope H on the free end i of the latch E to move the latter out of engagement with its keeper F at the time the latch O is moved out of engagement with its keeper D.

In order to render the gate self-closing, I provide the bottom rail of the gate near the pivot B with a roller J, adapted to travel on an incline K, set in the ground and connected with the adjacent fence post to hold it in place, as indicated in the drawings, the said.

incline K terminating in a level surface K, so that when the roller J passes upon this level surface at the time the gate A is swung wide open the gate will remain in this position. Ordinarily, however, the gate is only partly open, so that the roller J travels on the incline K only, and when the gate is released it will readily swing shut, owing to the roller J traveling down the incline K by the weight of the gate.

The gate illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 is intended to open one way only, and the post G is for this purpose provided with a stop G, as indicated in Fig. 2. When it is desired, however, to construct the gate to open both ways, this stop'G is omitted, and the gate A has its latch C engaging a keeper D, nailed to the inside of the post G the free end of the latch O terminating a short distance from the inner face of the said post. The other keeper F is formed with bevels on both sides of its vertical notch, to permit of easy entrance 'of the free end of the latch E to the vertical notch. The keeper D is likewise beveled from its notch in opposite directions on the top surface of the keeper, as plainly The indicated in Fig. 4. The roller J is mounted to travel on a double incline K extending on both sides of the gate, as indicated in Fig. 3.

Now it will be seen that by the arrangement described the gate is held securely closed to prevent animals froinopening the gate, and at the same time the gate is constructed to permit of conveniently opening it by authorized persons and to cause it to close automatically, as above explained.

It is evident that by having the roller J traveling on the incline K the pivot 13 is re lieved of the strain or weight of the gate and allows the latter to act as a brace for the adjacent post and the pivot to prevent the gate from saggin g.

Having thus fully described'my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A gate provided with two latches arranged approximately at right angles one to the other, and fixed keepers adapted to be engaged by the said latches and having their receivingnotches standing at right angles to each other, substantially as shown and described.

2. A gate provided with a gravity-latch, a fixed keeper adapted to be engaged by the said latch, means for swinging the said latch open, a spring-latch held on the gate at right angles to the said gravity-latch, and a second keeper adapted to be engaged by the free end of the said spring-latch,substantially as shown and described.

3. A gate provided with a gravity-latch, a fixed keeper adapted to be engaged by the said latch, means for swinging the said latch open, a spring-latch held on the gate at right angles to the said gravity-latch, a second keeper adapted to be engaged by the free end of the said spring-latch, and means for connecting the said spring-latch with the said gravity-latch to open both latches simultaneously, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE WASHINGTON PETTIT.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE W. COOK, EVERT 000K.

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