IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE DOORS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WHICH PREVENT ACCIDENTS TO PASSENGERS AND OTHERS ON ENTERING OR LEAVING THE SAME." SP
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Askew, of No. 178, Drummond Street, Hampstead
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE DOORS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WHICH PREVENT ACCIDENTS
TO PASSENGERS AND OTHERS ON ENTERING OR LEAVING THE SAME."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Askew at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th August 1878.
JOHN ASKEW, of No. 178, Drummond Street, Hampstead Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DOORS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES,
WHICH PREVENT ACCIDENTS TO PASSENGERS AND OTHERS ON ENTERING OR
LEAVING THE SAME."
My Invention is for improvemnts in constructing a safe footing for passengers
and others when entering or leaving railway carriages on departure from or arrival
at railway stations. My Invention is so constructed, that by a sliding piece of
metal or wood attached to the footboard of the carriage, and worked by a metal pin
screwed or bolted to the carriage door, the opening of the same causes the piece of
metal or wood on the footboard to slide over, under, or level with the platform,
closing the open space between the carriage and the platform, giving a safe footing
to passengers and others, and so preventing accidents.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions. of the Letters Patent filed by the
said John Askew in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th February
1879.
JOHN ASKEW, of No. 178, Drummond Street, Hampstead Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DOORS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES,
WHICH PREVENT ACCIDENTS TO PASSENGERS AND OTHERS ON ENTERING OR
LEAVING THE SAME."
By referring to the Drawings which are filed with the papers relating to this
Invention, it will be found that they contain letters and figures which will explain
my Invention, and the manner in which the same is performed. The letters A, B,
and C represent the high level and low level platforms of railways. The letters
E, E, E, Fig. 2, shew the body of a railway carriage with the doors of the same
open, and shewing the safety step projecting over the open and dangerous space
between the railway carriage and the platform, and giving a safe footing to passen-
gers on entering and leaving railway carriages. Letter D, Figure 2, shews a railway-
carriage door closed with my new step attached thereto, which whenever the door
is open or shut, projects from the carriage, and covers the open space between the
carriage and the platform. A pin is attached to the door of the carriage, as shown
in Figure 2, E, E, E, and D, which pin goes or slides into a recess on the step fitted
to the present step or footboard attached to the carriages, and the steps are worked
in and out similar to a parellell rule.
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A 1 shews a high platform with steps from footboard under the same; B 1 shews
a level platform with steps in a line with the same, C 1 shews a low platform
with steps over the same, and the letters F, G, & H, shew the safety steps open
and shut.
What I claim by my Invention is, closing the open space between the platform
and the present step or footboard of railway carriages, giving a safe footing to
railway passengers on entering or leaving railway carriages.
Dated Seventh February, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.