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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JOHN WILLIAM MATHESON, OF AMARILLO, TEXAS.
DOOR-HANGER.1,051,426.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Jan. 28,1913.
Application filed February 15, 1911. Serial No. 608,717.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I,. JOHN W. MATHESON,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Amarillo, State of Texas, have invented cer-
5 tain new and useful Improvements in Door-
Hangers, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to improvements in
door hangers, and has for its object to pro-
10 vide a simple and efficient hanger for slid-
ing doors which will prevent the same from
swinging laterally.
Other objects and advantages of my im-
proved construction will be apparent from
15 the following description taken in connection
with the drawings, and it will be understood
that I may make any changes in the con-
struction within the scope of the claim with-
out departing from the spirit of the inven-
20 tion.
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a
car equipped with my improved combined
shield and hanger. Fig. 2 represents a sec-
tional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig.
25 3 represents an end view of the track and
support. Fig. 4 represents a side elevation
of the supporting rollers and bracket de-
pending therefrom. Fig. 5 represents an
end view of the parts shown in Fig. 4.
30 In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates
a car having the customary sliding door 2.
Secured to the car above its doorway is the
vertical plate 3 having the reversely bent
and outwardly inclined portion 4 which ex-
35 tends down lower than the plate or portion
3 but is spaced a distance therefrom. The
plate extends along the side of the car to
cover the track on which the door slides.
Any desired track may be used with my
40 improved shield and said shield may be se-
cured to an'ordinary car over the track al-
ready thereon, but my invention is particu-
larly adapted for use with the track forming
member most clearly shown in Figs. 2 and
45 3. By reference to these figures it will be
seen that the plate from which the track is
formed is bent into the shape of a slightly
flattened cylinder 6 having the slot 7 in the
lower side thereof.Secured to the door 2 are a pluralityaof Z- 50
shaped brackets 8 having an enlarged lower
end 9 secured to the outer face of the door,
the intermediate bar of the Z-plates lying
along the top of the door and extending to
the middle of the door; while the other por- 55
tion of the plate extends upward through
the slot 7 in the track forming member 6.
Journaled in the upper end of each of said
plates 8 is a shaft or axle 10 having a hemi-
spherical shaped wheel or roller 11 secured 60
to each end and held spaced from the plate
8 by a washer 12.
From the foregoing description taken in
connection with the drawings the construc-
tion of the various parts of my invention 65
will be readily understood and it will be
seen that the bolts 13 passing through the
upper ends of the shield member and of the
car body serve to secure the shield member
in position, while the rivets 14 passing 70
through one side of the member 6 and the
plate 3 secure the track to the shield at one
point and the rivets 15 passing through the
portion 4 of the shield and the other side
of the member 6 secure and support that side 75
in elevated position. It will be further ob-
served that the track formed by the mem-
ber 6 is entirely closed except for the slot 7
in the bottom thereof and that consequently
it is practically impossible for dirt to get 80
therein to interfere with the operation of the
rollers of the brackets, while the shield ex-
tending over the said track and also over the
door serves both to further shield the track
member and to close the space between the 85
track and the car door to prevent either dirt
or moisture being driven into the car
through the said space.
I claim:
In a car door hanger, the combination 90
with a plurality of Z-shaped brackets,
wheels rotatably mounted upon the upper
arms thereof, the lower ends of said brackets
being secured to the upper outer edge of the
door, a vertical plate secured to the car, said 95
plate terminating in a second vertical plate,
a cylindrical track supported between the
plates and having a longitudinal slot formed
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Matheson, John William. Door-Hanger, patent, January 28, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510679/m1/2/?q=%22United%20States%20-%20Texas%20-%20Potter%20County%22: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.