Door Check.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in a slotted plate provided at one end with a buffer for arresting the door, and having in the walls of the longitudinal slot series of diagonal slots, in combination with a counterweighted latch provided with trunnions received in the diagonal slots" (lines 21-27).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Hinkle, William A. & Jeffery, Franklin C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department