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I work for a fence company, and I'm trying to enter invoices into a new system.

One of the invoices lists "Offset Gate Stop."

I have no idea what this is, and even our yard manager couldn't help me. For context, the rest of the invoice is for a chain link swing gate.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there another name this would be called?

Michael Soclof
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[An] offset latch is made for situations where the bolt needs mounted on the gate at a 90° angle, such as when the gate is installed on the center of the post.

https://www.hooverfence.com/offset-gravity-latches-wood-gates

Since a gate stop is basically the same thing, but without a retention device, one can assume it's intended for the same situation.

See also "90 degree gate stop".

isherwood
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There isn't a rigid definition, but two most common uses:

  • An offset gate is a term sometimes used for a gate consisting of two unequal panels. Often the smaller one is fixed or secondary. But there are no rules. Sometimes the smaller panel is at a 90 degree angle to the main one, to move the "closed" position away from the natural position of the post. Any gate latch at all could be ambiguously called an "offset gate latch" if you install it on an offset gate.

Ok but seriously:

  • An offset latch is something used mainly with chain-link fence where the latch (gate part) and stop (post part) both stick out, and meet in the middle of the gap between the two. A "normal" stop is butt up on the side of the post or on the face of it. But a tubular chain link post doesn't have a side or a face. So with chain link fence, more commonly a latch that isn't "offset" has no stop at all. It's just a C-chaped thing that falls down around the post.

To add to the confusion, there is also:

  • An offset gate hinge has nothing to do with either of the above senses of the term. "Offset hinge" is a more widely recognized term for one that allows a swinging door to clear around an adjacent obstruction, and if you put one of these on a gate, you get an "offset gate hinge". And the latch, on that gate, is not an offset gate latch. Unless it is.
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