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raitetea May 3, 1904.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JAMES Pa OWENS, OF WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
LATCH.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,009, dated May 3, 1904.
Application filed May 16, 1903. Serial No, 157,505, (No model.)To all whoim it may concern:
Be it known that I, JAMES P. OWENS,a citizen
of the United States, residing at Weatherford,
in the county of Parker and State of Texas,
5 have invented new and useful Improvements
in Latches, of which the following is a speci-
fication.
This invention relates to latches; and the
object of the invention is to provide an e f-
10 fective article of this character which may be
used with facility in many ways-for exam-
ple, in conjunction with either swinging or
sliding gates or doors.
The improved device includes a keeper and
15 a latch of peculiar construction, the advan-
tages of which will be hereinafter set forth at
length, the latch being ordinarily mounted
upon the gate or door, while the keeper is
mounted upon the gate or door post or frame.
20 In the following description I describe in
detail one simple and convenient adaptation
of the device, which is clearly illustrated in
the accompanying drawings, forming a part
of this specification; but the invention is of
25 course not limited to the exact disclosure, for
variations as to certain of its features may be
made within the scope of the claims succeed-
ing such description.
Referring to said drawings, Figure 1 is a
30 plan view of a swinging gate provided with a
latch involving the invention. Fig. 2 isaside
elevation of the keeper of said latch. Fig. 3
is a transverse sectional elevation of the
keeper, the section being taken practically at
35 its center. Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively
face and edge views of the latch-supporting
bracket, and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal central
sectional elevation of the latch.
Like characters refer to like parts through-
40 out the several figures.
The improved device involves in its organi-
zation a keeper, which in the present instance
is adapted to be mounted upon a stationary
part, which may be either the post or frame
45 of a swinging or sliding door or gate. The
keeper is denoted in a general way by 5, and
it is usually made in the form of a casting.
The keeper 5 is represented as consisting
of a plate approximately right - angular incross-section, this form being one especially 50
adapted to be attached to the post of a swing-
ing gate, in which case the vertical portion or
web thereof fits against the side of such post
and is fastened thereto in any suitable way--
say by screws. 55
From the horizontal portion of body of the
keeper and extending longitudinally thereof
rises a flange 6, the working portion of which
cooperates with a latch mounted upon the gate
to hold the gate in a desired position.. The 6o
working portion of the flange 6 is represent-
ed as consisting of teeth, each denoted by 7.
It will be seen that the teeth are formed upon
an inclination which rises from the initial or
first one and follows a right line to the rear65
one, and the function of this structure will
hereinafter appear.
The latch is denoted by 8, and it is repre-
sented as consisting of a loop or open frame
of substantially oblong rectangular form, 70
which is carried for swinging or oscillating
movement by a bracket 9, adapted to be suit-
ably fastened, as by means of screws, to the
gate, the bracket being so positioned with re-
spect to the gate-post that it is approximately 75
in horizontal alinement with the horizontal
portion of the body of the keeper. By con-
structing the latch in the manner shown-that
is, of relatively considerable width--there is
no possibility of its getting out of adjustment. 8o
Upon the upper side of the bracket 9 is a
lug 10, of segmental shape in cross-section,
and which constitutes a bearing for what
might be considered the journal portion of
the latch 8, such journal portion consisting of 85
the inner cross-bar of the loop-shaped latch 8.
In applying the latch to a gate the inner cross-
bar thereof is first inserted into the inner open
side of the lug 10, after which the bracket is
fastened to the gate at the desired place, the 90
gate itself serving to prevent the displacement
of the journal portion of the latch from the
bearing-lug 10. When the gate is open, the
latch 8 should be maintained in a horizontal
position, or approximately so, in order that 95
when the gate is closed the free end of said
latch will be in proper position to engage the
toothed or serrated portion 7 of the keeper,No.' 75b,,'0' .-
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Owens, James P. Latch, patent, May 3, 1904; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510033/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.