IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND CLOSING HANSOM CAB DOORS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, CHARLES KAHN, 138, Strand, W.C. London, Shop Manager do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND
CLOSING HANSOM CAB DOORS to be as follows:-
:-
The connection which consists of either Wire Rope, Cords or the like is conveyed
from the Cab Doors running inside the Vehicle behind and fixed to the 2 Doors up
the corners of Cab behind the Doors to the Roof along and fixed to the Roof
through 2 holes (on a level with the Drivers Seat) on the back of Cab to within
reach of the Drivers Seat & so connected as to form an endless Rope or Wire. To
open the Doors the Driver pulls the right side of the endless wire or Rope
(which work on Wheels or Pulleys) & by so doing he at the same time pulls the
connection to each door and so they open, the cords or Rope being so crossed that
by pulling one side of the endless Wire or Rope at the Drivers Seat works the
2 ends connected,-To Close the Doors, the Driver pulls the left side of the endless
Wire or Rope, and the one Cord or Rope being shorter than the other one Door
closes before the other to allow the Seam usually fixed to one of the Doors (to
keep out Rain &c) to fall into its place--The 2 Wires or Ropes which open the
Doors are fixed on the outside of the Doors & run through 2 holes in the Stationary.
Panels of the Front of the Cab to the Drivers Seat (as set out)-The Wires or the
like which close the Doors are fixed to the inside of the Panels of the Doors &
joined on the inside of the Cab (behind the Doors) to the wire or Rope which is
conveyed (as set out) to within reach of the Driver.

page_text: CHARLES KAHN 21 Parker Street Liverpool Jeweller I do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OPENING AND CLOSING
HANDSOME CAB DOORS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The connection which consists of either wire ropes, cords or the like is conveyed
from the Cab doors, running inside or outside the vehicle behind and fixed to the
two doors by means of the lever and worked in the following manner-Attached
to small bar by Screws to the bottom of the door of the cab as represented
in drawing Fig 1. A. At the end of the bar directly in front and in line with door
hinges is affixed to said bar A an iron or steel shank running through the hole cut
in the floor of the cab and having a bend or angle, B. at the top so as to enable
the said bar or shank to act as a central pivot X on which the door turus. The
end of pivot beneath the cab floor is so made as to fit into a square collar in the
lever D. and made fast to the pivot by means of an ordinary, nut.
The lever D being thus fixed to the pivot, attached to the outside ends of lever
is a wire cord or rope or the like which is then passed through pulley F and then
on through double pulley G where both ends of the ropes meet and are joined
to gether and then run up to the drivers seat at the back of the cab & forms the
right hand rope of the endless cord which is worked by the driver and the pulling
of which right hand cord acting upon the levers, causes the doors to open.
The closing of the doors is effected by exactly the same process excepting that
in this case it is the left hand cord, of the endless rope, which is pulled, & as the
rope is attached to inside ends of the lever & then passed thro pulley J and thence
through pulley L. where they again joined in the manner already described and
then run up to the drivers seat the whole thus forming an endless cord or rope the
pulling of which on the right cord opens the doors, and the pulling of the left side
closing them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is-
1st Improvements in apparatus for opening and closing hansom cab doors as
substantially described.
2. The angle or bend which is affixed to a plate on the door and, the pivot or
shank in centre of circumference described by door in opening, thus forming
central pivot for the door to turn on, as substantially described.
3. The arrangement of cords or wire or chains or the like from the drivers seat
as substantially described.
Dated this 7th day of November 1884