A Securing and Closing Apparatus, Combined with an Improved Door for Railway Carriages.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIF
A Securing and Closing Apparatus, Combined with an Improved
Door for Railway Carriages.
I, FRANCIS GLADWIN of 113 Commercial Street Spitalfields Market in the
County of London, Salesman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The chief objects of my invention are to ensure the safety of the passengers whilst
the train is in motion and to prevent the occurrence of accidents through alighting
before the train stops.
The apparatus may consist of a flexible steel or wire rope of small diameter which
will pass through a channel in each door (the doors being on the sliding system) from
end to end of train coupled between carriages and detachable.
On each portion of the rope that works in the door channels a metal reel is fixed,
and as the rope is worked this will travel to and fro the width of the door. The
reel may be confined to this space by metal plates on back and front edges
of door with hole or slot in each large cuough only for the rope to work through
freely.
One end of the apparatus may be attached to a device under the control of
the guard or other person, and the other end to a weight or spring.
When the train starts, the device on being worked will secure all doors and
simultaneously close any that may have been left open.
Immediately the train is at rest at the station, the doors will be set free for
opening by releasing the device and the apparatus be drawn back by the weight or
spring.
The improvements in the door would consist of it being suspended from flat rim
roller wheels to allow of a little play. The necessity of this will be seen in the
following improvement. The front edge of door will be bevelled and close into a stop
to fit, at back edge there will also be a bevelled piece made on inside of door which
will close into a corresponding piece fixed on body of carriage. This arrangement
will answer a double purpose viz., draw the door tight up to the carriage (the style
of wheels allowing for this) thus preventing vibration and also form perfect draught
excluders. I may vary some of the foregoing details without departing from my
invention.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.

page_text: A Securing and Closing Apparatus, Combined with an Improved
Door for Railway Carriages.
I, FRANCIS GLADWIN, of 113 Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market, in the
County of London, Salesman, 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 :--
The chief objects of any invention are to ensure the safety of the passengers whilst
the train is in motion, and to prevent the occurrence of accidents through alighting
before the train stops.
And in order that my invention may he thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a view of a railway carriage coupled to a front and a rear guards van
and my apparatus fitted thereto, with the doors of the carriage closed. The dotted
lines indicate the position of door, weight and lever when the lever is released in
order to open the doors of one or more carriages;
Fig. 2, is a section of the door closed shewing the bevelled edges fitting into
corresponding pieces fixed on body of carriage and drawn to an enlarged scale.
The apparatus may consist of a flexible steel or wire rope a of small diameter
which will pass through a channel i in each door c (the doors c being on the
sliding system) from end to end of train coupled between carriages and
detachable.
On each portion of the rope that works in the door channels i a metal reel b is
fixed and as the rope a is worked this will travel to and fro the width of the door c.
The reel may be confined to this space by metal plates on back and front edges
of door with hole or slot in each large enough only for the rope to work through
freely. One end of the apparatus with a lever e may be attached to a device under
'the control of the guard in the rear van for other person and the other end to a
weight g in the front van h. The metal wire a runs over pulleys n.
When the train starts the device ou being worked by the lever e will secure
all doors c and simultaneously close any that may have been left open.
Immediately the train is at rest at the station the doors c will be set free for
opening by releasing the device and the apparatus drawn back by the weight 9 or
spring.
The improvements in the door would consist of it being suspended from flat rim
roller wheels j running on an iron bar k fitted on each side of the carriage also to
allow of a little play. The necessity of this will be seen in the following improve-
ments. The front edge of door c will be bevelled and close into a stop to fit.
At the back edge there will also be a bevelled piece m made on inside of door which
will close into a corresponding piece fixed on body of carriage.
This arrangement will answer a double purpose viz.: draw the door tight up to
the carriage (the style of wheels allowing for this) thus preventing vibration, and
also form perfect draught excluders.
The flexible steel or wire rope is provided with couplings d and travels in the
direction indicated in Fig. 1, in order to release the doors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a securing and closing apparatus combined with an improved door for

page_text: railway carriages, the combination of the various parts substantially as described in
this specification for the purpose specified.
2. In a securing and closing apparatus combined with an improved door for
railway carriages, the combination of a flexible steel or wire rope a couplings d
reel 6 channel i door c lever e pulleys n weight g and roller wheels; bar k fitted to
one or more railway carriages with the weight 9 operating in the front van h and
the lever in the rear guards van f, substantially as herein described and according
to the accompanying drawing.
3. In railway carriage doors, the combination of the door e fitted with roller
wheels ; to run on a bar k with the door having a front edge bevelled to close into
the stop and the bevelled piece m on the inside of door which closes into a corre-
sponding piece fixed on the body of a carriage, substantially as herein described
and according to the accompanying drawing.
Deted this 2nd love of October 1806
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulbam Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.