IMPROVEMENTS IN DOORS FOR RAILWAY CARRIAGES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Wright, of Richmond, in the County
of York, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOORS FOR
RAILWAY CARRIAGES."
Scaled the 13th July 1869, and dated the 3rd March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Wright at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd March 1869.
I, RICHARD WRIGHT, of Richmond, in the County of York, Farmer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN DOORS FOR RAILWAY CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to construct the doors of railway
carriages in such manner as to prevent injurics to fingers by the closing
of the doors.
For this purpose in place of supporting the door on hinges as
heretofore I support it on two pins, one at the top and the other at
the bottom, and the side edge of the door near to which the pins are

page_text: placed is made hemispherical, so that when a door is opened this edge is
always close up to the door post, so leaving no opening for the people's
clothes or fingers to get between them. The opposite edge of the door is
provided with a soft or elastic edge of india-rubber, or a stuffed cushion
of hair or other material, or leather, or other elastic edge to prevent any
injuries to fingers if this edge of the door is closed upon them. I prefer
to form the horizontal rails which form the top and bottom of the door
to project beyond this elastic edge to catch against the frame of the door
and prevent it turning inwards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WRIGHT, of Richmond, in the County of York, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Richard Wright, Richard Wright, Her special licence
that I, the said Richard Wright, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Wright, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DOORS FOR RAILWAY CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Wright, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed;
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Wright, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say: -
The first part of this Invention has for its object to construct the
doors of railway carriages in such manner as to prevent injuries to fingers
by the closing of the doors.
For this purpose in place of supporting the door on hinges as
heretofore I support it on two pins, one at the top and the other at the
bottom, and the side edge of the door near to which the pins are
placed is made hemispherical, so that when a door is opened this edge is
always close up to the door post, so leaving no opening for the people's
clothes or fingers to get between them. The opposite edge of the door
is provided with a soft or yielding edge to prevent any injuries to
fingers if this edge of the door is closed upon them. I prefer to form
the horizontal rails which form the top and bottom of the door to project
beyond this elastic edge to catch against the frame of the door and
prevent it turning inwards.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed is shown a railway door constructed
according to my Invention.
Figure 1 shows a side view of the door; and Figure 2, a horizontal
section of the same on the line 1, 1, Figure 1.
a, a, are the pins at the top and bottom of the door, and upon which
the door swings; these pins, as shewn at Figure 2, are connected with
the hemispherical edge of the door, which fits in a corresponding recess
in the door post, so that when the door is opened this edge is always
close up
to the door post. The opposite edge of the door is, in the door
shewn in the Drawing, made capable of yielding by turning on pivots or
hinges should it as the door is closed come into contact with anything
between it and the door post. The horizontal rails b, b, at the top and
bottom of the door are of the usual length, so that they shall catch
against the door frame and prevent the door turning inwards. c is the
yielding edge, capable of turning on pins or pivots c' in a similar manner
to the door.
To fasten the door I prefer to employ bolts such as shown at d, d,
which can be simultaneously withdrawn by turning the handle a³, but
other bolts may be employed for fastening the door. In place of the

page_text: edge c being made to be yielding by turning on hinges, as shewn in the
Drawing, it might be formed of a stuffed cushion of hair or other
material, or it might be formed of a strip of vulcanized india-rubber, or
might otherwise be made soft or yielding. I however prefer the
arrangement shown in the Drawing.
1.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Wright, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.