Improvements in Hinges for Doors, French Windows, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hinges for Doors, French Windows, and the like.
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I, ALFONS MAUSER, of 30, Marienstrasse, Cologne-Ehrenfeld, in the Empire of
Germany, Engineer, 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: -
The hanging of doors and windows with the fittings at present employed is a
very troublesome business and usually requires two persons in the case of heavy
windows and especially of doors, one person to hold the article to be hung and
the other to direct the hinges with their sockets into an exactly correct position
over the pins belonging thereto.
The present improvement has for its object to avoid this drawback and consists
essentially in the pins of the hinge being bevelled at the top, tapered or even made
without any alteration as previously, and the sockets and the straps being pro-
vided with lateral recesses or partly cut away below so that the straps with their
sockets can be pushed directly against the pins, that is to say a lateral attachment
may be made and then the part to be suspended can be let down into its correct
place.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figures 1 and 2 show as an example a hinge for a French window F, the pin B
being only tapered at the top and the socket A of the hinge strap A¹ having at
the bottom a lateral recess or cut away part a which does not correspond quite
to the centre of the socket. In order to hang the window, it is brought into such
a position that the recess a stands against the extension or prolongation of the
tapered part 6 of the pin B and the window is pushed forward so far that the
socket A rests on the pin B and is then lowered thereon.
Figures 3 and 4 show a hinge in which the pin B is made thinner at the top
instead of being tapered, whilst the strap A' and the socket A remain the same
with a recess. This arrangement has the advantage over the one shown in
Figures 1 and 2 that in any position of the window the parts a and b fit at an
equal height one on the other and the window may then be hung. In the hinge
shown in Figures 5-8 the pin B is unaltered, that is to say is neither tapered
at the end nor made thinner, in other words is of the ordinary shape. The slot a
on the socket A. is on the other hand carried up to the centre so that the suspension
can take place as soon as a rests on the upper end of the pin B. The socket
indeed in this case only rests on the shoulder Cor pin holder with half its sectional
surface but this is of no importance as the bearing surfaces are usually always
made sufficiently large.
If however it be desired not to reduce the bearing surface, this may be effected
by the insertion of an intermediate socket D as shown in Figures 10 and 11, 12
and 12, said intermedinte socket having also a lateral recess d so that the
socket which is also recessed fits exactly over the upper recessed part of the
intermediate socket.
In order to be able to give the intermediate socket D a firm position, as other-

page_text: wise these sockets 1) might be displaced because there are always two hinges
coming in question in hanging a window or door and in the case of such displace-
ment the socket A might rest with its projecting part on the lower projecting
part of the socket 1), the latter preferably has laterally projecting arme, on the
under part of which two small projections d' are arranged. The sockets D are so
adjusted that they engage right and left with their two projections over the pin
or strap C so that the socket has a given position. On turning the windows the
sockets D also turn, whilst by slightly raising the window one of the projections d
will slip over the strap C. If the pin B instead of being attached to a strap C
be attached to a block or gate hinge E, Figures 13 and 13 two small excrescences e
are provided thereon, whilst in the corresponding intermediate socket G+ one small
projection is formed on the under part of the same, Figures 14, 14 and 14.
The projection will then become adjusted between the two excrescences e of the
block E when a certain position is given to the intermediate socket G.
It is evident that a number of different forms of construction serving for the
same object may be adopted without proceeding beyond the scope of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A hinge for French windows, doors and the like, characterized by the
sockets (A) of the hinges having lateral recesses (a) provided below with the object
of allowing the door or window to be more easily hung, by means of which
recesses they may be brought laterally against the hinged pin (B) or in other
words a lateral contact be made whilst if desired the pins (B) may be bevelled off
at the top or provided with a thinner end (b), substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.
2. In a hinge such as described and with the object of obtaining a full bearing
surface at the points of rotation, the insertion of short intermediate sockets (1
and G respectively) between the knuckle or pin holder and the socket, which
socket and also the knuckle or pin support E may be provided with projec-
tions (dg and respectively,) in order to allow of these intermediate sockets
being adjusted to given positions, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of November 1808