History of the Halley Hinge.

In years gone by the partnership of W Halley & Son, had been in the habit of using multipurpose steel framed buildings for the housing of cattle and feedstuffs in the winter, and storing grain during and just after harvest time.

Because the cattle were housed on straw bedded courts, it was neccessary to hang the various gates at different heights throughout the housing period. When the buildings were erected, sets of gate crooks were welded onto the end uprights and also at one or two intermediate uprights to allow the area to be split up into different sizes of court.

There were a few problems with this system.

It was not practical or desirable to have crooks on all uprights. Lack of flexibility in use of the buildling. and the crooks were a nuisance when the building was being used for storing grain. Also unfortunately having 2 buildings built at different times, the gates were made to slightly different specifications and were not interchangeable. Causing a few choice words when the wrong gate was taken to be hung. Occasionally one of the crooks would be knocked off or even break off, not a problem to weld a new one on when the building was empty, but a definite problem when 2000 bales of straw were stored in it, along with the cattle.

Solution to gate hanging problem.

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