Means or Apparatus for use in Making Doors, Shutters, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means or Apparatus for use in Making Doors, Shutters, and
the like.
I, MADISON W. REEVES, of Sayre, in the County of Bradford and State of
Pennsylvania, United States of America, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a convenient means for supporting a
door, shutter, or other similar object on edge while being planed down or while the
hinges are being secured thereto.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved device.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same showing its upright portion turned
forward so as to grasp a door having a rounded end.
A represents the base of the device which is supported at each end by a foot B..
Near one end of the base and secured to both sides thereof are the upwardly
projecting plates C between which is pivotally secured the upright member D..
E represents a brace which is inclined downward from the rear side of the
said upright to the base upon which its lower end rests. The said end is secured to
the loop of the U-shaped bale F by means of a staple G under which the said bale
freely turns.
The ends of the bale are secured in eyes H projecting from the base A and in
which they also turn, so that, as shown in Figure 2, when the upright D is tilted
forward the rear end of the brace will raise from the base, but will be braced all
the while by the said bale.
To the upper end of the upright D is secured the horizontal notched block I
in which the end of the door fits, as shown in Figure 2, so that the door is
grasped tightly by the same and prevented from turning from one side to the
other.
Secured to the base A near the lower end of the upright D are the blocks J
between which the lower edge of the door rests, thus holding the same from
slipping off the base while being operated upon.
In Figure 2, the device is represented as supporting on edge a door having a
rounded end, which end the block on the upright is grasping. This position of the
upright is secured by placing beneath the lower end of the brace E a block
or other device K which holds the same up and consequently the upright tilted
forward.
The device here shown and described is most useful in supporting doors, shutters
and the like while their edges are being operated upon or while the hinge buts are
being applied thereto. It is simple in construction and very simple in operation,
yet of great convenience in operating upon objects of the class stated.
Dated this 5th day of June 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means or Apparatus for use in Making Doors, Shutters, and
the like.
I, MADISON W. REEVES of Sayre, in the County of Bradford and State of
Pennsylvania, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide a convenient means for supporting a 5
door, shutter, or other similar object on edge while being planed down or while, the
hinges are being secured thereto.
Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification:
Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved device.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same showing its upright portion turned 1
forward so as to grasp a door having a rounded end.
A represents the base of the device which is supported at each end by a foot B.
Near one end of the base and secured to both sides thereof are the upwardly
projecting plates C between which is pivotally secured the upright member D.
E represents a brace which is inclined downward from the rear side of the said
upright to the base upon which its lower end rests. The said end is secured in the
loop of the U-shaped bale F by means of a staple G under which the said bale
freely turns.
The ends of the bale are secured in eyes H projecting from the base A. and in
which they also turn, so that, as shown in Figure 2, when the upright D is tilted a
forward the rear end of the brace will raise from the base, but will be braced all
the while by the said bale.
To the upper end of the upright D is secured the horizontal notched block I
in which the end of the door fits, as shown in Figure 2, so that the door is
grasped tightly by the same and prevented from turning to one side or the
other.
Secured to the base A near the lower end of the upright D are the blocks J
between which the lower edge of the door rests, thus holding the same from slipping
off the base while being operated upon.
In Figure 2, the device is represented as supporting on edge a door having
a rounded end, which end the block on the upright is grasping. This position
of the upright is obtained by placing beneath the lower end of the brace E a block
or other device K, which holds the same up and consequently the upright tilted
forward.
The device here shown and described is most useful in supporting doors and a
shutters while their edges are being operated upon or while the hinge buts are
being applied thereto. It is simple in construction and very simple in operation,
yet of great convenience in operating upon objects of the class stated.
Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is:
1st. The combination, of a base, an upright supported thereby, and a grasping
device at the upper end of the upright, substantially as shown and described.
2nd. The combination, of a base, an upright pivotally secured thereto at its
lower end, a brace for the rear of the upright, and a grasping device at the upper
end of the upright, substantially as shown and described.
3rd. The combination, of a base, an upright pivotally secured thereto and
adapted to turn forward thereon, a brace secured to the upper end of the upright,
a bale pivotally secured to the base, and a connection between the bale and the
brace, substantially as shown and described.
4th. The combination, of a base, plates secured to and projecting from the sides

page_text: thereof, an upright pivoted between the plates, a brace at the rear side of the
upright, and a swinging connection between the lower end of the brace and the
base, whereby the former is adapted to be moved forward, substantially as shown
and described.
5th. The combination, of a base, an upright hinged at its lower end thereto, an
inclined brace secured to the back of the upright, a bale pivotally secured at its
ends to the base, a loose connection between the lower end of the brace and the
bale, a notched block secured to the upper end of the upright, and blocks J secured
to the base, substantially as shown and described.
Dated 16th day of May A.D. 1893.
MADISON W. REEVES.