Improvements for Opening and Shutting Hansom Cab Doors by the Driver.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements for Opening and Shutting Hansom Cab Doors by the
Driver.
1 JOHN DURRANT of 8 Thorpe Mews Cambridge Gardens Notting Hill in the
County of Middlesex, Coach Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
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Improvements for opening & shutting hansom cab doors by the driver which is
effected in the following manner.
Each door has screwed on to its lower part a plate, to the end of which, & at right
angles to it, is forged a crank having an eye at its end.
To this eye is attached a strap, chain or other connecting material which passes
through an eye in the footboard of the cab. This strap continuing rearwards passes
over a pulley up to the driver's seat so that the strap or other connecting material
has only to be pulled by the driver to open or shut which ever door he might
require.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements for Opening and Shutting Hansom Cab Doors by the
Driver.
1 JOHN DURRANT of 8 Thorpe Mews Cambridge Gardens Notting Hill in the
County of Middlesex Coach Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Improvements for opening & shutting hansom cab doors by the driver which is
effected in the following manner :
Each door A has screwed on to its lower part an iron plate B.
To that end of the plate which, when screwed to the door, is nearest to its hinges
& in a line with the hinge-pin, is forged a cranked or bent rod C with an eye E at its
end.
To this eye is attached a strap, chain, or other connecting material F which passes
through an eye in the footboard of the cab, or, by preference, through a grooved pulley G
fastened under the footboard. This strap, continuing rearwards, passes over or under
one or more grooved pullies H as may be required by the varying construction of cabs,
up to the driver's seat.
The cranked rod of the plate which is screwed to the foot of each door is forged at
such an angle with that plate, & the grooved pulley under the footboard is so situated,
that a smart pull of the strap or chain by the driver suffices to swing open the door
when shut, or to swing back & shut the door when open.
The mechanism of the apparatus is so arranged that instead of carrying the two
straps up to the driver's seat, they may be connected at the bottom of the cab to one
strap, & this one strap only carried up to the seat, so that the driver can open or shut
both doors simultaneously with this one strap. But if both straps are carried up to
the seat the driver can open & shut both doors at the same time or either door
independently of the other.

page_text: Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention & what manner
the same is performed, I declare that what i claim is :
First. The adaptation & use of the apparatus for the purpose aforesaid, capable o
being applied to any hansom cab, substantially as herein before described.
Second. The adaptation and use of the several parts comprised in the same.
Third. The combination of the several parts herein before described.
Santambon 2nd 1990
JOHN DURRANT.