IMPROVEMENTS IN HINGES
Year: 1837

page_text: VALE'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAB
VALE, of Allen Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Coach Joiner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirteenth day of December, in the first year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Vale, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Thomas Vale, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Thomas Vale, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HINGES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that I, the said Thomas Vale, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Vale, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):
:-
My Invention relates to a mode of constructing hinges, by which the door,
gate, or other structure suspended thereby may be taken down and put up with
facility, without the necessity of taking off the hinges from the door, gate, or
other structure, or from the post from which the same are suspended, and in
order to give the best information in my power I will describe the Drawings
hereunto annexed, in which the same letters are used to indicate similar parts
in all the Figures.
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Figure 1 shows the front of a hinge complete, constructed according to my
Invention. Figuro 2 is a front view of the same hinge, partly in section.
Figure 8 is a front view, partly in section, of the parts of the same hinge
separated. Figure 4 shows a transverse section of the hinge Figure 1; and
Figure 5 shows some of the parts separately. The hinge is so constructed
that the axis on which the parts move is capable of being slided in order to
draw the two parts of the axis from one portion or half of the hinge, and thus
leave the same free to be moved from the other portion or half. The axis is
shown at Figure 5, and consists of the tube a, on which move the two tubes, b, b,
which have each a closed end within the tube a, and in the tubes b is placed
a spring c, which has at all times a tendency to press the parts 6 away from
each other, and the parts b, when the hinge is complete, to perform the office
of the axis of the hinge; d, d, are studs or projections affixed on the parts, 6, 6;
these projections pass through a slot d' formed in the barrel of the hinge, as is
clearly shown at Figure 1. The hinge shown at Figure 1, as before stated, is
complete, and in the position it would be when carrying a door or other
structure, and the parts, b, b, are performing the office of the axes of the hinge,
and such is the case in respect to Figure 2; but in Figure 3 the parts b, b,
are drawn together by their sliding on the part a, hence the two parts of the
hinge are separated, and any thing hanging thereto could be removed, as will
readily bo understood by an examination of the Drawing. c, c, are two levers,
moving on a fulcrum at e', they having springs f¹ by which they are constantly
pressed outwards, consequently when the axes, 6, 6, of the hinge is moved, the
leverse with their projecting outward ends como into the position shown at
Figure 3, and the projecting ends of the levers e become stops for the ends of

page_text: the axes b, b, and prevent their being pushed separate by the spring c, and
in this position they will remain till the other half of the hinge is forced into
its place, when the levers will be pushed back and release the ends of the
axes b, b, and permit of their being pushed away from each other by their
spring c, and thus again combine the two halves of the hinge. It will be seen
that the parts e, e, f, f, are in a recess formed in one half of the hinge, which
is covered by the plate 9, which is affixed by rivets or otherwise. Figure 6
shows the front view of a riding hinge, the nature of which will be readily
understood on examining the Drawing, aided by the description given to the
preceding Figures, the same letters referring to like parts.
Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 show another arrangement of hinge, which
differs somwohnt from those above described, but the difference will readily be
observed on examining these Figures; the principal difference being that there
is a sliding bolt c, in place of the levers e, as above explained, and there is but
a single sliding axis 6 on the tube a, but the sliding axis is constantly pressed on
by the spring c. Figures 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 shew another arrangement
of hinge, differing from the preceding inasmuch as the parts a, b, c, serve as a
bolt to affix the hinge, as will readily be traced in these Figures, in place of
those parts also serving the office of axis or axes of the hinge. Figures 17,
18, and 19 shew a suitable arrangement of hinge for folding screens, and so
far as the parts, a, b, c, they are similar to Figure 1. Figure 20 shews an
arrangement of hinge applied to affix a rudder on its pintals, the construction
of hinge being similar to Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would remark that I do not claim any of the parts
separately, nor do I confine myself to the precise arrangements shewn and
described, as variations may be made without departing from my Invention.
But what I claim as my Invention is, the mode of constructing hinges herein
described, whereby and by means of sliding axes 6 and stops c, doors, gates,
and other structures may be taken down and put up with facility without
removing the hinges.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Vale, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
THOMAS VALE. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1888, the aforesaid Thomas Vale came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according!
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.