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UNTED STATES PATENT OFFI
GEORGE 0. HYLAND, OF CHILDRESS, TEXAS.
DOOR-OPENER.
1,142,17 1. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 8, 1915.
Application filed Tanuary 29, 1913. Serial No. 744,982.
To all whom it may concern: As the door operating mechanism per se
Be it known that I, GEoRGE O. HYLAND a is identical for each door a detail descrip-
citizen of the United States, residing at tion of one such iaechanisum will suffice for
Childress, in the county of Childress and all. . The door operating mechanism in- 60
5 State of Texas,. have invented new and use- cludes a shaft 3 extended through the body
ful Improvements in Door-Openers, of which immediately adjacent the door opening and
the following is a specification. projecting above and below the body, being
This invention relates to an improved door mounted in any desired manner to permit
opener for automobiles constructed particu- rotation. On the upper end of the shaft is a5
10 larly to enable the driver to control any of fixedly secured an operating disk 4 which at
the doors and open any such selectively at diametrically opposite points is provided
pleasure without leaving his seat. with upstanding or vertically projecting
The main object of the present invention pins 5 and 6, the former of 'which may be
is the provision of a door operating mecha- termed the unlatching pin and the latter the 70
15 nism in the use of which the door may be door swinging pin.
unlatched and opened, control means being The door proper is provided with a latch
provided whereby the driver may actuate bar 7 having a latch nose 8 at one end to en-
either of the door operating mechanisms at gage a keeper 9 arranged in the door frame,
will to open any of. the doors as may be the latch nose and keeper being of any de- 7,
20 required. sired type restricted only in that they must
The invention in its preferred form of be capable'of disengagement by a sliding
details will be described in the following movement of the latch bar. The latch bar
specification, reference being had to the ac- mounted for sliding movement in the door
companying drawings, in which:- extends for a portion of the length of the 80
25 Figure 1 is a plan view of an automobile upper edge of the door only, and is provided
showing the doors equipped with'the oper- with the usual finger member 10 serving as
ating mechanism, and illustrating the -foot a handle for the manual operation of the
lever for the actuation of such mechanism latch bar when desired. Beyond the rear
by the driver. Fig. 2 is a. bottom plan view end of the latch bar and in alinement there- 85
30 of the automobile showing the arrangement with there is pivotally secured upon the
of actuating levers and rods. Fig. 3 is an upper edge of the door what may be termed
enlarged plan view of one of the door oper- a swing plate 11, through the pressure on
eating means. Fig. 4 is a section on the line which, as will hereinafter appear, the door
4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 .is a section on line is opened and closed. The swing plate is a o
35 5-5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a section on line box-like structure open at top with its side
6-6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a perspective view walls undercut, as at 12. Both the latch bar
of the lever plate for the driver's control 7 and the swing plate 11 are preferably
illustrating the connection of the foot lever mounted on wear plates 14 secured to the
and operating levers thereto. Fig. 8 is a upper edge of the door, as is usual in struc- 95
40 perspecti\'e view illustrating one of the tres of like character.
operating and control mechanisms complete A swing lever15 is movably mounted. upon
and wholly removed from connection with the upperL end of the shaft 3 immediately
the automobile sections. Fig. 9 is a. bottom above andl preferably resting in contact with
view of the same. the operating disk 4. The swing lever has 100
45 Referring particularly to the accompany- a disk head 16 corresponding in size and
ing drawings, the improved door operating shape to the operating'disk, said disk head
device is designed for use with any type of being centrally formed with an elongated
vehicle which ,is provided with doors de- aperture 17 through which the main shaft
signed to be opened to permit the entrance 3 passes, and at diametrically opposite 10:
5o or exit of passengers, and, therefore, the au- points with an opening 18 to snugly or ro-
tomobile body 1 provided with doors 2 is de- tatably receive the unlatching pin 5 and a
signed and intended to represent any type of curved slot 19 to receive the door swinging
automobile body or any type of vehicle hav pin 6, the slot being of a curvature concen-
ing doors, as the invention is applicable with trick with the edge of the disk. The bar sec- 1 ;
o5 equal facility and efficiency to any such ve- tion of the swing lever which projects for-
hice. wardly from the disk head 16 has its side
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Hyland, George O. Door Opener, patent, June 8, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859170/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.