US1126929A - Door-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

G. W. WORTHINGTON.

DOOR FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED 0011s, 1914.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. WOR'IHINGTON, OF RUSI-IVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO HENRY O. MUNSON, 6F RUSHVILLE, ILLINOIS.

DO OR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed October 13, 1914. Serial No. 866,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. WORTH- mcrron, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rushville, in the county of Schuyler and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door- Fasteners, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to hasps employed on doors, gates and similar closures, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which cannot be opened except by disposing the parts in an unusual position, and is designed more particularly to prevent animals, for instance a tricky horse, from manipulating the catch to release the same.

The improved device may be employed upon gates, barn doors, and the like, and it is not desired therefore, to limit the invention in any manner in this respect, but for the purpose of illustration, the improved device is shown applied to a conventional barn or stable door, and in the drawings thus employed Figure 1 is an elevation ofa portion of a door and a portion of one of the jambs, with the improved device applied and in open position. Fig. 2 is an end elevation with the door jamb in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the improved device in closed or locked position. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the device arranged as shown in Fig. 3 with the door jamb in section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device arranged as shown in Fig. 3 with the door jamb and door in section on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

A portion of a door is represented conventionally at 10 and a portion of one of the jambs at 11. Attached to one of the memhers, for instance the jamb member 11, is a hasp holding member formed with a base portion 12 attached to the jamb by screws, bolt, or other fastening devices indicated at 13. At one end the member 12 is formed into a hook like terminal 14, preferably with the bill portion slotted at its ter-- minal and spaced away from the face of the member 11.

The hasp device, represented as a whole at 16, forms a part of the improved device and is mounted to swing at one end upon a staple 17, an opening 18 in the hasp, which engages over the staple being preferably elongated to provide for longitudinal movement to a certain extent of the hasp relative to the staple and the door. The major portion of the hasp 16 is relatively thick, and rounded as indicated at 19, and the remaining portion reduced, as indicated at 20, the reduced portion being at one side only of the hasp, or next to the fiat side and continuing the same, as represented in Fig. 5, so that the major portion of the thicker rounded part of the hasp protrudes beyond the reduced portion 20 at one side. By this means the hasp overhangs or is weighted at one side to cause the same to automatically overturn when disposed in one position, as hereinafter explained. The protruding rounded face of the hasp is an important feature of the device as the hasp is thereby caused to readily overturn against the face of the door when being closed, as hereinafter more fully explained. Formed through the reduced portion 20 of the hasp is an elongated opening 21. to engage over the hook 14. The door portion 10 is preferably provided with an opening 22 to enable a finger to be used for manually actu ating the hasp from the inner face of the door, as will be obvious.

When not in use the hasp hangs downwardly upon the staple 17 and when the hasp is to be applied it is elevated and turned with its flat face against the door 10, which will bring the hasp into the position shown in Fig. 1 with the reduced portion 20 in position to pass between the terminals 15 of the hooks 14 and the face of the door jamb 11. This will bring the opening 21 opposite the bill portion 15 of the hook, and then by slightly turning the hasp outwardly at its upper edge, the weighted side 19 will cause the rounded protruding por tion 19 to roll over the adjacent face of the door and automatically overturn the hasp and move the portion of the hasp at one side of the opening 21 over the hook 14: until the hasp assumes the position shown in Figs. 3,

i and 5,.and lock the hasp, in position rela tive to the hooks. The hasp will thus-be caused to make acomplete half revolution into closed position, and cannot be removed "'unles's'rotated in the opposite direction for an equal full half revolution, a movement which cannot be accomplished except manu ally. With a device thus constructed, it would be impossible for an animal, for in- 10' stance a tricky horse, to open the hasp by manipulating it with the teeth, as is comv monly done with ordinary hasps. The slot in thehook 14: is suffioiently large to receive the bolt of a padlock or like fastening del 'vice, as shown by dotted linesat 23, the padlock bolt thus serving to prevent theoverturning of the hasp and its consequent release. The roundedportion 19 of the hasp bears against the door and thus prevents "rattling of looseness between the parts.-

The- -iniproved-device is simple inconstruction, can is be i lnexpensively manufactured and applied without increase m-expense to doors, gates, and like 'closures'of 25 -various forms and slzes'.

Having thus described the invention what isola'imed as new is:

1.'In* a device of-the'class described, an attaching member and a hooked -member,

39 said hooked member having an inwardly directed terminal, a hasp having an aperture I near-one end loosely engaging said attaching member and an aperture near the other end adaptedto'engage the hooked member, said aperture near one end loosely engaging said attaching member and an aperture near the other end adapted to engage the hooked member, said hasp extending over the aperture of the door when engaged with the hooked member and releasable from the hooked member through the door aperture.

3. In a device of the class described, the

- combination with a door jamb and a door,

of an attaching member upon said door, a member including hooks spaced apart and attached to said jamb, the terminals of the hooks being spaced from the face of the jamb,'a hasp loosely engaging said attach-' ing member and having an aperture near its freeend adapted to engage over the hooks, and a lockdevice adapted to be engaged with one 40f said hooks and preventing the overturning of the hasp.

In testimony whereof I ali'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. WORTHINGTON.

Witnesses:

H. WALTER 'CoB, J. V. CoRMAN.

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