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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
HENRY SIPE, OF CLEBURNE, TEXAS.
SWINGING GATE.
SPECIPICATIOl4 forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,772, dated April 10, 1888.
Application filed January 12, 1888. Serial No. 260,540. (No model.)'o all whonm it 7nay concern.
Be it known that I, HENRY SIPE, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Cleburne, in
the countyof Johnson and State of Texas, have
& invented certain new and useful Improvements
in Swinging Gates; and I do hereby declare
the following to be a full, clear, and exact de-
scription of the invention, such as will enable
others skilled in the art to which it appertains
10 to make and use the same.
My invention relates to that class of gates
known as "swinging gates;" and it has for its
object to simplify and improve the construc-
tion over existing patents and render easy the
15 operation of opening and closing the gate, and
at the same time by its simplicity of construc-
tion reduce the cost of manufacture to a mini-
mum.
To this end the invention consists in the
2t novel construction and arrangement of the sev-
eral parts, aswill be hereinafter more fully de-
scribed, and specifically pointed out in the
claims.
In the accompanying drawings, to which ref-
2S erence is had and which fully illustrate my
invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the
gate in a closed position, and Fig. 2 is a view
thereof in an unlatched position ready to be
swung open, that portion of the gate where it
30 is held by pins in the main front supporting-
post being broken away.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar
parts in both figures.
A and A' represent two main supporting-
35 posts, the former of which has secured to it
near its top and bottom bolts a and a', which
are passed through said posts and have their
rear ends screw - threaded to receive screw-
threaded nuts B B, by which they are secured
40 to the posts. The forward ends of said bolts
are hooked and point upwardly to receive the
eyes of bolts b and b', that hinge the rear post
or batten, C, of the gate to the rear main post,
A, the forward batten, C', of the gate'resting
45 in pins secured in the front main post, A'.
The batten C has an opening or slot, c, made
therein, through which is loosely passed the top
bolt,b,which is somewhat longer than the lower
bolt, b'. The major portion of its unhinged or
so free end is screw-threaded to receive a nut, D,
for securing and adjusting thereon the free endof the vertical portion of an adjustable bell-
crank lever, E, which shortens or lengthens the
hinge b, the said vertical portion of the lever
having a hole, c, therein, through which the 55
unhinged or free end of the hinge-bolt b is
passed. The lower end of this bell-crank le-
ver E has a slot, e, in it, and is projected
through an opening or slot, F, in the post or
batten C, (clearly shown in dotted lines in Figs. 6o
1 and 2 of the drawings,) the lever being piv-
otally secured in the slot F by means of a pin,
G, passed transversely through the slots e F
in the lever E and batten C, respectively. The
pin G serves as a fulcrum for lever E,and upon 65
it the slot e in the lower end of said lever E
traverses back and forth and throws the rear
and upper end of the gate back and forth upon
the hinge-bolt b, and operates simultaneously
a suitable pivoted spring and pivotally-se- 70
cured catch upon the gate-batten C.
Secured to the batten C upon its rear face
and near the top thereof is a flat spring, I,
having its free end depending downward in
juxtaposition to a loosely-pivoted catch, I, piv- 75
oted as at i, the free end of the spring H hold-
ing and confining the hooked end of the catch
I in the lower end of slot F in batten C. The
other and longer end of the catch is straight,
its point being adapted to enter a shallow re- 8o
cess or depression, J, in the post A. (Clearly
shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.) The front
or main post, A', of the gate is provided with
pins K, between which the batten C' of the gate
is retained when in its normal or closed posi- 85
tion. The batten C' has secured to its lower
end a roller, L, which supports and carries the
forward end of the gate when opened in full
and swung around at right angles to the post.
From the foregoing description, when taken 90
in connection with the accompanying draw-
ings, the operation of the gate will be obvious,
but may be briefly rehearsed as follows: The
operator, to open the gate,as shown in Fig. 2,
has simply to depress the bell-crank lever to a 95
horizontal position. Simultaneously with that
movement of the lever the slot in the lower
end of it traverses its fulcrum-pin in a direc-
tion rearwardly to the gate. At the same time
it imparts motion to the upper portion of the Ioo
rear batten, which slides gently over or upon
the Upper and longer hinge rearwardly until
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Sipe, Henry. Swinging Gate., patent, April 10, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171743/m1/2/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.