Hinge lock for animal gate
OwnerEdward A. Capletteinventor
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Abstract
The present lock is for use on an animal gate hinge having an eye fastened to the animal enclosure and a rod fastened to the gate and extending from it across the top of the eye and then down through the eye. This lock has a lower ring which can be slid up onto the exposed lower end of the rod below the eye and a latch swiveled to the ring and extending up from it for releasable attachment to the rod between the gate and the eye.
Claims4
For use with the hinge of a gate for an animal enclosure, said hinge having a horizontal eye fastened to the enclosure and a rod fastened to the gate and having a horizontal leg extending across the top of the eye and a vertical leg extending from said horizontal leg down through the eye and having a free lower end exposed below the eye, a manually attachable and removable lock comprising:
- a horizontal lower ring defining a vertical opening and slidably insertable from below onto said vertical leg of the rod below the eye;
- and a latch extending up from said lower ring for engagement with said horizontal leg of the rod at one side of the eye when said lower ring is on said vertical leg of the rod below the eye, said latch having relatively movable parts which are separable to open the latch for receiving said horizontal leg of the rod when the latch is applied thereto, said movable parts of the latch being movable together to close the latch around said horizontal leg of the rod after being applied thereto, whereby to prevent the rod from being lifted out of the eye to disconnect the hinge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.