IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF Railway and otHER VEHICLES." GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF RAilway and other Vehicles
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cornelius Curtis, of 146 and 147, Widemarsh
Street, Hereford, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY
GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF Railway and otHER VEHICLES."
GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF RAilway and other Vehicles.”
Sealed the 25th February 1876, and dated the 10th December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cornelius Curtis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th December 1875.
I, CORNELIUS CURTIS, of 146 and 147, Widemarsh Street, Hereford,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN SAFETY GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER
VEHICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in safety guards to
be applied to the doors of railway and other vehicles.
At the present time injury is frequently caused to the occupants of
railway and other carriages by the hands or limbs being pinched in
closing the doors. To prevent. such accidents I attach to the door and
:

page_text: also to the door frame, so as to cover the hinge joint on the inner side,
a band of stout flexible fabric of such a width as to allow the door to
open freely, and of a length to cover the joint or space between the door
and the door frame from end to end, or so far as may be judged
necessary to prevent risk of accident. When the door is closed the
flexible fabric bulges outwards with sufficient force effectually to prevent
the fingers or other part of the body being caught between the door and
the frame.
In order to prevent similar accidents from happening at the other side
of the door, or that opposite to the hinges, I fix upon the door post to
which the door closes a projecting flange or lip of stiff india-rubber or
other flexible fabric of sufficient width to prevent the fingers grasping
the door post. When the door is closed the flange or lip will yield, so
that the fingers cannot be seriously nipped between it and the door.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 1
filed by the said Cornelius Curtis in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CORNELIUS
CURTIS, of 146 and 147, Widemarsh Street, Hereford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Cornelius Curtis, Her special
license that I, the said Cornelius Curtis, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Cornelius Curtis, 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 SAFETY GUARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF RAILWAY AND
OTHER VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Cornelius Curtis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: 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,
•
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Cornclius Curtis, 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 :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in safety guards to be
applied to the doors of railway and other vehicles.
At the present time injury is frequently caused to the occupants of
railway and other carriages by the hands or limbs being pinched in
closing the doors. To prevent such accidents I attach to the door, and
also to the door frame, so as to cover the hinge joint on the inner side,
a band of stout flexible fabric of such a width as to allow the door to
open freely, and of a length to cover the joint or space between the door
and the door frame from end to end, or so far as may be judged
necessary to prevent risk of accident. When the door is closed the
flexible fabric bulges outwards with sufficient force effectually to
prevent the fingers or other part of the body being caught between the
door and the frame.
In order to prevent similar accidents from happening at the other side
of the door or that opposite to the hinges, I fix upon the door post to
which the door closes a projecting flange.or lip of stiff india-rubber or
other flexible fabric of sufficient width to prevent the fingers grasping
the door post. When the door is closed the flange or lip will yield
so that the fingers cannot be seriously nipped between it and the door.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings here-
unto annexed.

page_text: vulcanized india-rubber attached both to the door and to the door
frame to prevent the fingers entering at the hinge joint; e is a flange or
lip of the same material fixed to the door frame on the other side to
prevent the fingers being so placed as to be caught when the door is
closed.
I claim the safety guards applied to the doors of railway and other
vehicles on one or both sides, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Curtis, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
prevent the angers doing pr
closed.
I claim the safety guards applied to the doors of railway and other
vehicles on one or both sides, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Curtis, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.