Improved Method of Hanging Doors.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Hanging Doors.
We HENRY JAMES DWIGHT of 38 Princess Street Barnsley in the County of
York Artist, HERBET HUTCHINSON of the Town and County aforesaid
Draughtsman and FRANK WALTER OWNSWORTH of Dodworth in the County
aforesaid Joiner 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 :-
Our present invention relates to the method of hanging doors within door-cases
or frames and the object thereof is to so hang a door that it may be opened by
pushing or pulling at either outer edge thereof and at either side of said door that
is to say doors which are hung in accordance with our invention have what we
would term a double free action so that they may be forced open from either jamb
or side of door-case or frame and inwards or outwards as the case may be.
In order that our said invention therefore may be fully understood and so that it
may the more readily be carried into effect we will proceed to describe the same
by the aid of the accompanying drawings which we wish to be taken as mere
typical illustrations of the application of the principle of our present invention but
not as the only and final forms.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a door hung within a door-case or frame in accordance
with our present invention the said door being closed.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan taken on line y. y of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a sectional plan showing the door forced open in one direction and
Fig. 4 is a similar plan illustrating the same forced open in the opposite direction
but from the same hinge.
Fig. 5 is a similar sectional plan showing the said door forced open and swung
from the pivotted hinges in the upper and lower parts of said frame or door case
and Fig. 6 is a like sectional plan with the said door swung open in the opposite
direction.
Fig. 7 is a front sectional elevation of a door hung within the door-case or
frame and represents a modification of our invention.
Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each figure.
The door A is swung in a bracket B which is pivotted to the door-case or
frame K at and 2. The said door A. is hinged to the upright portion 63 of the
bracket B by means of the hinges b*.
In order to retain the door Å in position when closed we preferably employ ball
stops C one being fixed to the upper part of door-case K in a vertical line with the
centre of the hinges and one being secured to the under part of the door-case K
also in a vertical line with said hinges . We also fix one said ball stop C in the
upper edge of the door A under the pivot and in a vertical line therewith and
one said ball stop C in the lower edge of door A above the pivot b³ in a vertical
line therewith also.
The bracket B may be made all in one piece as shown at Fig. 1 or the top
portion and lower portion may be made separate and the upright part 6³ screwed
bolted or rivetted thereto.
Where preferred instead of the bracket B extending around the three edges of
the door A as shown at Fig. 1 we form the said bracket B in two separate
bands B. B placed top and bottom of said doors as shown at Fig. 7 in which case
the door A is pivotted to the bands or parts of the bracket B at 65 and 66 and the
aid bands B. B are pivotted to the upper and lower parts of the door-case or frame
at 6 and 62 respectively.

page_text: In order to make the door self closing we prefer to employ flat springs a as
shown at Fig. 1.
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It will be obvious that by pushing the door A at X it will swing open upon the
hinges see Figs. 3 and 4 or pivots and 6 (Fig. 7) and according to which side
of the door A be pushed so will it swing open as shown at Figs. 3 and 4 and
during the swinging open of the door upon the hinges or points 65 and 66 the
ball stops C retain the door A at its side or edge O and in pressing or pushing
the door at O it will swing open upon the pivots and 62 either outwards or
inwards in accordance with which way the said door may be pushed as shown
at Figs. 5 and 6 and during the swinging open of the door A. upon the pivots b
and the ball stops C retain the door A. at its side or edge X.
The springs always bring the door A to closed position when pressure is
removed from edge or face of door as will be well understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. Hanging a door in a pivotted bracket B so that the said door may be opened
from either side and will swing open either on the pivots and or on the
hinges substantially as described.
2. Hanging doors by means of pivotted bands B so that said doors may either
swing open on the pivots 65 and 66 or on the pivots and 62 substantially as
described and represented at Fig. 7.
3. Hanging doors within door-cases or frames so that they may be swung open
from either side or edge in the manner substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of November 1890.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Barnsley and Sheffield, Agent.