IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HANGING GATES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Sutton, of Banbury, in the County of
Oxford, Innkeeper, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR HANGING GATES."
Sealed the 19th September 1861, and dated the 30th March 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Sutton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
March 1861.
Í, DANIEL SUTTON, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Innkeeper, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR HANGING GATES," to be as follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for hanging
gates.
In order to hang a gate in such manner that it will at all times tend to close
and stand closed after being opened, the following apparatus is employed :--On
the post to which a gate is hung, and near where the upper part of the gate is
hung, is fixed a curved track which is lower in the middle than on the two sides,
the two sides sloping upwards. In the centre of this curved track is fixed an
upright axis on which is received a projection fixed to the upper part of the
gate, such projection having an eye through it suitable for turning on thie
upright axis. On the projection there is a grooved wheel or roller which turns
freely on the projection, and such grooved wheel or roller rests on the curved

page_text: track, and runs thereon when the gate is opened in one direction or the other,
the grooved wheel or roller running from its central or lowest position up the
incline of the curved track. The lower part of the gate is hung by an eye,
which is received on an upright axis fixed to the gate post, the stem on
which the eye is formed being arranged to slide in and out of a socket
fixed to or formed in the gate..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Daniel Sutton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
September 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
SUTTON, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Innkeeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Daniel Sutton, Her special licence that 'I, the said Daniel Sutton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel
Sutton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed; should, and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR HANGING GATES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Daniel Sutton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Sutton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in a certain combination of apparatus used when
hanging a gate in order that such gate may at all times tend to close and stand
closed after being opened.

page_text: Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings shows an elevation of a gate post and part
of a gate hung thereon, and Figure 2 shews a horizontal section of the
apparatus combined according to my Invention.
In the arrangement shewn by the Drawings, the apparatus, according to my
Invention, is at the lower part of the gate, but the same may be also arranged
for being applied to the upper part of a gate. a is a projection fixed to the
gate, having thercon two rollers b, b, which respectively rest against the curved
track c fixed to the gate post. On the curved track c is an upright axis d, on
which the gate swings by means of the sliding bolt e, which slides through the
gate. A gate thus hung will on being opened as one of the wheels b moves
along the curved track, cause the gate to assume such a position that when
the gate is released the weight of the gate will cause the wheel b to pass back
along the inclined track c to its original position, and so remain till again
forced open. The upper part of the gate, as shewn by the Drawings, is hung
by an apparatus such as has before been used, and to which I make no
claim.
When using my Invention, at the upper part of a gate a curved track is
used, but in place of its being in a horizontal position, as shown in the
Drawing, it is raised on the edge of a similar projecting plate to that shewn in
the Drawing at c, and in place of the projection a on the gate having two
wheels & thereon, a single wheel is used on a horizontal axis, which wheel rests
and moves on a curved raised edge or track on the plate c, such track being lowest
at the middle, so that when opening a gate in either direction the wheel will
move on and rise up from the lowest position to the higher part of the curved
incline, so that when the gate is released it will by its weight cause the wheel
to move to the lowest part of the curved incline.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Sutton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
DANIEL SUTTON. (L.s.)