Improvements in Gates.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gates.
I WILLIAM GREGORY DAWKINS of Over Norton Chipping Norton Oxon
Landowner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A usual farm field gate with a fixed support to a central bar by means of an iron
loop which terminates a flat iron bar fixed to the iron of the upper hinge, the
centre bar being further fixed by means of an oblique wooden bar from the junction
of the lowest bar with the heel post. The said central bar having Hat iron braces
bolted on each side of it and of the heel post, which are part of a massive iron
hinge eye which with a shorter and similar tube upon it are held between the upper
& lower horizontal rings proceeding from an upright iron fixed to the gate post by
an iron from its centre passing thro' the post, the said massive hinge eye, shorter
tube, and horizontal rings being hold in vertical line by iron pin and out.
Dated this 26th day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gates.
I WILLIAM GREGORY DAWKINS of Over Norton Chipping Norton Oxon
Landowner do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
Rame is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
A support of such a nature fixing the position of a middle or other central bar
of ordinary wooden farm field gates, both at or near the centro K of its horizontal
length as well as at its hinder extremity L as will prevent the gate from losing its
rectangular structure and from dragging upon the ground.
The same to be performed by fixing to, as part of the upper hinge loop and to
one side of it, a narrow and flat iron bar J K extending obliquely downwards along
one side of the gate till it reaches the upper edge of the middle or nearly contral
or other bar of the gate, the oblique flat iron bar then to take a directly per-
pendicular direction down the side of the bar and ending with a horizontal turn
under and supporting the lower edge of the said bar of the gate thereby supporting
it as well as being pinned to it at its side at K. And the same to be further
performed by fixing the position of the hinder end of the said central bar of the
gate by means of two flat iron arms, one longer than the other, united behind or at
the back of the heel post of the gato N, the shorter arm to be pinned to one side
of the heel post, and the longer arm to be pinned to the side of the said central
bar which, for the length of this longer arm, must be ns thick as the heel post, and
further, towards the end of the longer arm and as part of it, a flat narrow plate of
iron above L is to turn horizontally over the edge of the said central bar of the
gate, thus keeping down this hinder end of it, while its foremost end at the gate's
head post, is kept up by the support beneath it, at some central point, above
described. The two above described arms embracing the heel post and the side of
the hinder end of the central bar, being united at back of the heel post, and fitted
with a hinge loop N towards the banging post.
This said hinge loop rests loose upon a similar loop fixed into the hanging gate
post, while resting upon it is a loose iron cylinder P of about two inches height,
and at the level of the top of the said cylinder there rests upon it another similar
iron hinge loop attached to the lowest hinge loop by flat iron, and this is securely
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page_text: fastened to the hanging gate post, by a pin or bar at right angles to the said flat
iron, and which passes through the gate post and is fastened by a nut on the
further side of the post, R.
When the three hinge loops and the cylinder are adjusted in perpendicular lino,
an iron pin is inserted from above and is secured by a nut at the lower end when it
has passed through the three hinge loops and the cylinder. The object of this
centre hinge being to keep the back end of the central gate bar from rising, the
hinge loop must be kept down by a fixed iron, but without the space afforded below
the upper fixed loop, by means of a removable oylindor, and the three hinge loops
having to be in the same perpendicular or oblique line, the top hinge loop and the
lowest hinge loop of the gate could not be raised enough to be above and to come
down
their hinge pins, without the space afforded by the upright length of
the cylinder, before it is inserted.
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A further support to the central bar of the gate is obtained from below by means
of a flat wooden bar T passing up obliquely from the lower end of the heel post to
the central bar; its lower end is cut to fit above the lowest horizontal bar of the
gate and the inside of the heel post of the gate, and its upper end is cut to fit
behind and against the iron end of the upper oblique support (where it is turned
under the edge of said central bar) and under the edge of the said central bar.
This said oblique wooden bar is fixed at its lower end by an oblique iron arm
from the lowest hingo loop, similar to the arm attached to the hinder end of the
central bar of gate, and it is pinned to this oblique flat arm as well as to the bars
of the gate as it crosses them, and also to the under edge of the central bar of
the gate.
With the further object of keeping the gate from drooping at its head, the i
hanging post is to be maintained more firmly in its perpendicular position by means
of a horizontal wooden bar or foot, about three feet long firmly attached to the
bottom of the gate's hanging post, in the line of the gate when shut, and buried in
the ground underneath it.
In further clucidation of my invention I refer to the drawing left with the
Provisional Specification dated January 27th 1893.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my aaid inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The invention of the above described improvement to prevent the drooping &
of wide gates at the head, by means of the oblique bar J K, the oblique bar T
from below, and the central gato hinge with cylinder P, and the means of main-
taining the horizontal position of a central bar of a gate by its fixture to supports
from the hanging gate post, indepondent of necessary support from the other parts
of the gate.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of October 1902
WILLIAM GREGORY DAWKINS,
Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxon.