Improvements in Gate and Door Stops.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
Improvements in Gate and Door Stops.
We, HENRY RICHARD JOHN DENTON, of Saint Mark's Foundry, Wolverhampton
in the County of Stafford, Engineer, and JOSEPH ROUND CARTWRIGHT, of
Ludston Hall, Claverley in the County of Salop. Gentleman, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to construct stops for gates and doors in a
manner which shall make their manufacture very simple, and which shall render
them extremely simple in use and make it almost impossible for them to get out of
order or become in any way inoperative.
A gate or door stop constructed according to this invention consists of a block,
which may conveniently be of metal hollowed out to lighten it, and of a base plate
formed also as a guide plate, which is made conveniently of metal and in the form
of a channel or shallow trough. The block is placed upon the base plate, and may
be moved thercalong between suitable guides. When the plate is made, as is
preferred, as a channel or shallow trough, the sides of the channel or trough act as
guides for the block as it is moved along the plate. The plate is fixed to the
ground, or to the floor or other part over which the gate or door passes as it is
turned on its hinges, and in such position in relation to the movement of the gate
or dour that the block may be pushed along to one end of the plate to bring it in
frent of the gate or door when it is desired to hold the same open, and may be
moved to the other end of the plate to allow the gate or door to be closed
again.
In using the stop for a gate or door which swings over the ground, the plate
may conveniently be screwed or bolted down to a plank or other piece of wood
which is embedded in the ground, or it may be fixed in any convenient manner.
It is preferred to form the bluck with a projection along each side at the bottom,
and to form the plate as a shallow channel of which the sides are formed as dovetail
guides, or other guides which overhang their bases. The projections of the block
pass under the overhanging portions of the guides, and thus, while the block may
be slid along end ways in the channel, the overhanging guides prevent it from being
lifted up. The block may be stopped at each end of the channel by the head of a
coach screw or the like by which the plate is fixed down, and thus so long as the
plate remains fixed the block cannot be removed therefrom.
It will be seen that the block may be easily pushed, by the foot, along the plate
from one end to the other.
The block and plate aforesaid are not necessarily made in iron, as they may be
made, or either of them may be made, if desired, in stone, wood, or other suitable
material.
Dated this 30th day of January 1896.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, HENRY RICHARD JOHN DENTON, of Saint Mark's Foundry, Wolverhampton
in the County of Stafford, Engineer, and JOSEPH ROUND CARTWRIGHT, of
Ludston Hall, Claverley in the County of Salop, Gentleman, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to construct stops for gates and doors in a
manner which shall make their manufacture very simple, and which shall render
them extremely simple in use and make it almost impossible for them to get out of
order or become in any way inoperative.
A gate or door stop constructed according to this invention comprises a block,
which may conveniently be of metal bollowed out to lighten it, and a base plate,
formed also as a guide plate, which is made conveniently of metal and in the form
of a channel or shallow trough. The block is placed upon the base plate and may
be moved therealong between suitable guides. When the plate is made, as is
preferred, as a channel or shallow trough, the sides of the channel or trough act as
guides for the block as it is moved along the plate. The plate is fixed to the
ground, or to the floor or other part over which the gate or door passes as it is
turned on its hinges, and in such position in relation to the movement of the gate
or door that, the block, when pushed along to one end of the plate, comes in front
of the gate or door if the same is open and holds it open, and when moved to the
other end of the plate allows the gate or door to be closed again. A vertical lug
may be formed with the plate, against which the gate or door comes when it is
fully open, and which will consequently prevent the gate or door from being opened
too far.
In using the stop for a gate or door which swings over the ground, the plate may
conveniently be screwed or bolted down to a plank or other piece of wood which is
embedded in the ground, or it may be fixed in any convenient manner.
It is preferred to form the block with a projection along cach side at the bottom,
and to form the plate as a shallow channel of which the sides are formed as
dovetail guides, or other guides which overhang their bases. The projections of
the block pass under the overhanging portions of the guides, and thus, while the
block may be slid along endways in the channel, the overhanging guiles prevent it
from being lifted up. The block may be stopped at each end of the channel by
the head of a coach screw or the like hy which the plate is fixel down, and thus so
long as the plate renains fixed the block cannot be removed therefrom.
It will be seen that the block may be easily pushed, by the foot, along the plate
from one end to the other.
The block and plate are not necessarily made in iron, as they may be made,
or either of them may be made, if desired, in stone, wood, or other suitable
material.
A convenient application of the invention is illustrated by the drawings
herewith.
Figure 1 is a plan of the appliance, with the block shewn moved into position
along the plate so as to be in front of the gate or door when the same is in its open
position, and thus maintain it open.
Figure 2 is a corresponding view to Figure 1, but shews the block to have been.
moved back clear of the gate or door so that the latter can be closed.
Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line of Figure 1; aud
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section, taken on line y, y of Figure 2.
A is a hollow cast metal block formed along the lower portions of the sides with

page_text: dovetails or projections which are an easy fit within the dovetail or overhung side=
of the channelled plate B and are prevented by such sides from being lifted up out
of the channel. C is a lug which is formed to stand upwards from a sideway
projecting portion D of the plate B, and this lug C forms a stop to the outward
movement of the gate or door. The plate B may be fixed by means of coach
screws a to the floor or to a plank let into the ground, or may be fixed to a block
of stone, or otherwise as may be desired. The block may be moved endways
within the channel of the plate B, and is prevented from being pushed too far in
either direction by the heads of the screws a. In Figures 1 and 2, a portion of
the gate or door E, extending for some distance back from the outer edge
thereof, is shewn by broken lines. It will be seen that when the block A is in
the position shewn by Figure 1, the gate or do or is kept open thereby, but that
when the block is moved back into the position shewn by Figure 2, the gate or
door may be swung to again.
It is desirable, of course, that the space between the side of the block A and the
lug C shall be such that the gate or door is just an easy fit therein, so as to prevent
undue inovement of the gate or door in case of wind or draught; and in order to
adapt the stop for use with gates or doors of different thickness, without incon-
venient play between the block A and lug C, a projection b is formed at one side
of the block, and the block may be placed within the channel of the plate B with
such projection towards the lug C when the stop is for use with one thickness of
gate or door, or may be placed within the channel with the plain side towards the
lug when for use with a thicker gate or dour. The portion of the block which is
within the channel of the plate may be made square on plan and be similarly
shaped along each side of the square, at the lower part thereof, that is to say, with
a dovetail or projection to pass under a dovetail on overhung side of the channel
so that the block may be placed within the channel of the plate B, in the manner
shewn, with either of the four sides towards the lug C; and a projection c, shorter
than the projection b, may be formed along one of the upper sides which is at right
angles to the side at which the projection bis forined, and a projection d, longer
than the projection b, may be formed at the opposite side of the block to that at
which the projection c is formed. The block may, therefore, also, be placed in the
channel of the plate B with either the projection c or the projection d towards the
lug C. The appliance is thus equally adapted for use with four different thicknesses
of gate or duor.
Having now particularly described aud 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. A gate or door stop having a block which is capable of being slid endways
along a suitable base so that such block may be moved into position to maintain
the gate or door open and be moved back therefrom to allow the gate or door to
be swung to again, substantially described.
2. A gate or door stop having a movable block A and channelled plate B,
substantially as described and shewn by the drawings herewith, whether specially
adapted for use with different thicknesses of gate or door, as described, or not.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1896.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.