Improvements in and relating to Hinges.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Hinges.
I, WILLIAM DOMAN, of 129, Cheapside, London, E.C., Commission Agent, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in, and in connection with hinges, and
applies more particularly to that class or type of hinge usually employed for sus-
pending church and other like heavy gates or doors, or flaps, and in which one
section of the hinge is connected to or arranged to form, a long plain or fancy
plate extending for a considerable distance across, and screwed or otherwise fixed
upon the face of the said door, gate, or flap, the improvements constituting my
invention consisting, Firstly: -of an improved construction and arrangement of
the pin by which the two sections of such a hinge are connected, the object of
which is to reduce friction and allow the gate or the like to swing easily. Secondly
of an improved construction and arrangement of the socket for carrying the
upper end of the said pin, and the plate or plates for carrying the said socket, the
object of which is to provide means whereby such a gate, door, or the like may be
more quickly and easily removed from, and replaced upon its points of suspension,
than obtains with the form of hinges hitherto employed for this purpose.
In order that the said improvements constituting my invention, and the manner
in which I purpose employing the same, may be fully understood, I have hereunto
appended 2 sheets of drawings, of which,
Figs. 1 and 2 Sheet 1 are elevational views of my improved pin, illustrating
two forms in which I may construct the same, Fig. 3 being a plan view of a split
ring forming part of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of part of a plate adapted to form (according to my inven-
tion) a section for such a hinge, for attachment to the said door, gate, or the like,
for suspending the same upon Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 5 being a perspective view illus-
trating the manner in which the said plate is bent, shaped and secured for this
purpose, while Fig. 6 illustrates the usual way of suspending such a pin upon a
top and bottom socket and plate, Fig. 7 being a side view of such a socket, and
plate carrying the same.
Fig. 8 is a view illustrating the application of my improved pin in the construc-
tion of wrought butt hinges.
Figs. 9 and 10 Sheet 2 are elevational views of my improved construction of
plates for suspending the upper of the said sockets, Fig. 11 being a combination
section of Figs. 9 and 10 taken upon the lines A B and C D respectively.
Fig. 12 is a like combination section taken upon the line E F of Figs. 9 and 10.
Figs. 13, 14 and 15 are front and side elevations, and under plan respectively,
of my improved socket for use in connection with Figs. 9 and 10.
Fig. 16 is an elevational view of the combination of Figs. and 10, with the
socket in position thereon, and all secured upon the door-post, or other place for
its reception.

page_text: Fig. 17 is a section upon the line G H of Fig. 16.
In so far as relates to the first portion of my invention illustrated by Figs. 1
to 8 inclusive, I carry the same into effect by employing a pair of any type of
sockets such as A, each or both fixed upon or formed integrally with a plate B,
of any desired shape or configuration, the said sockets being of such dimensions
internally as to receive and carry the two ends of a pin C, which for the purposes
of my invention I construct with an annular ridge or ring D, formed integrally
therewith, or shrunk or otherwise fixed permanently thereon, preferably at or
about the centre of its length as shewn in Fig. 1, or I may form in the centre or
thereabouts of the length of the said pin an annular recess a as at Fig. 2, and
provide a split ring such as D¹ Fig. 3, which I may cause to occupy the said
recess, and this would then appear as at Fig. 1, or in lieu of the said ring or ridge 1)
or Di, I may employ a pin, stud, or projection upon C, adapted to answer the same
purpose.
C
The plate E intended to form the central section of the hinge, I (for the purposes
of my invention) provide with an elongated slot such as b, when an annular ridge
or ring 1 or D is formed or fixed upon the pin C, but where a pin or stud takes
the place of such ridge or ring, as previously mentioned, a circular or other shaped
hole may be provided in E in lieu of the said slit b. The said plate E may also
be provided with a pair of rectangular or other shaped holes c and c¹ in the usual
way. The slot 6 (or its equivalent hole) in E provides a recess for the ridge or
ring D or D (or its equivalent pin or stud) when E is bent around the pin C, its
end being secured by a screw or bolt d (being one of those by which E is con-
nected to the door, gate or the like) passing through the holes c c¹ as illustrated
by Figs. 5 and 6, and when one or more of such plates is screwed upon the door,
gate or the like in the usual way, the same may be suspended by the pins C upon a
like number of pairs of sockets A in the usual way, the ridges or rings D or D¹ thus
serving to carry the door or gate, so that the weight of the latter is borne by the
lower ends of the pins C in their sockets A, thus preventing any frictional contact
between the plates E and the said sockets, as would obtain if such plates were
mounted loosely upon the pins C.
Referring to the second improvement according to my invention; and illustrated
by Figs. 9 to 17 inclusive, I arrange the upper socket A separate and distinct from
its suspending plates B and B and for the purposes of my invention I arrange
such plates preferably of the shape and configuration shewn by Figs. 9 and 10,
the former, of which (Fig. 9) is the front plate, and is provided with a narrow
aperture or slot G, opening out at the lower end of same, while the back plate B₁
(Fig. 10), has a like but wider aperture or slot G¹, opening out at its upper end,
the two said plates when placed together one upon the other appearing in vertical
cross section as at Fig. 11, and in horizontal cross section as at Fig. 12.
The upper socket A¹ (according to my invention) may be of any desired shape
or configuration, but preferably that shewn by Figs. 13, 14 and 15, having in its
under surface an aperture e for the reception of the upper end of the pin C (con-
structed as at Figs. 1 or 2 as may be desired); the back of the said socket being
provided with a rib f adapted to fit the aperture G of B, the said rib having a
flange g adapted to fit the aperture G¹ in B¹.
In practice, the bottom socket (which may if desired he arranged as that shewn
as the bottom socket in Fig. 6) having been fixed in position, and the lower
end of the pin C of the plate E placed therein, the plate B₁ (Fig. 10) would then
be fixed in the desired position by the means of screws passed through holes h
and therein, the upper socket A¹ being then placed in position with its flange g
within the aperture G₁ of the plate B¹. If then the said socket A¹ be brought down
until its aperture e engages with the upper end of the piñ. C of the plate E upon
the gate or the like, the plate B may then be slid down upon the rib f of the said
socket, until the counter-sunk holes j in B are facing and coincide with the holes k
in the under or back plate B', when the two said plates may be secured in position,

page_text: and the socket A¹ be retained thereon, by means of screws m passing through
both the plates B and B₁ into the frame of the door or the like, as illustrated by
Fig. 17.
The upper socket A¹ of each hinge is thus held by the binding together of the
two plates B and B', while each pin C with its plate E is retained by its respective
upper and lower sockets, and when it is desired that the door or the like, to which
the plates E, are connected, is to be removed from its points of suspension, the
mere loosening of the screws m will enable the socket A to be raised a sufficient
distance to permit the release of the upper ends of the pins C from the said sockets,
and when the gate, door, or the like is again replaced, the lowering of the
sockets A¹, and the tightening of the screws m, will again secure the said sockets
in position.
In like. manner the section E' of an ordinary wrought butt-hinge may be pro-
vided with a slot or hole 6 for receiving the ring D or D¹ (or the equivalent pin
or stud) of a loose pin C, as shewn at Fig. 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. In hinges for suspending doors, gates, flaps, and the like, the construction,
use, and application of a loose coupling-pin such as C, having an integral or con-
nected, annular ridge D or ring D₁ (or a projecting pin or stud in lieu of such
ridge or ring) adapted to engage with a slot 6 (or hole in lieu of said slot) in the
central section E or E¹ of a hinge, substantially as herein described and shewn.
2nd. In an improved hinge, the combination of a coupling-pin C, having an
integral or connected ridge or ring D or D1, (or a pin or stud in lieu of such ridge
or ring) engaging with a slot b (or a hole in lieu of such slot) in the section E
or E of the said hinge, the lower end of the said pin being supported by a socket
and plate such as A B, and its upper end by a socket A¹, having at its back a
rib f, and flange g, the said rib being adapted to engage with a slot or aperture G
in a plate B, while the flange g engages with a slot or aperture G in a plate B',
the said plates when connected together and fixed in position serving to retain
and hold the said socket A¹, substantially as herein set forth and shewn by the
drawings hereunto annexed.
Tatal th: 90th day of Ion 1000
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.