Improvements in Fastenings for the Doors of Traps, Carts, and like Road Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1:th Sept.. 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for the Doors of Traps, Carts, and like
Road Vehicles.
We, FRANKLIN DAVIES and FREDERICK WILLIAM LEGGATT, trading as
S. Mills and Company, of Ryland Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturers, and HENRY VINCENT of 27 Bath Street, Walsall in the County of
Stafford, Pattern Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to fastenings for the back doors of traps, governess, dog
and like carts, and other like carriages and road vehicles, and has for its object,
a simple and efficient fastening or catch, neat in appearance and capable of being
cheaply produced.
Our invention consists of a two part fastening, one part being carried by the
side of the body of a trap or the like and the other being mounted upon an
adjacent part of the door of the same, the two parts being held together or
locked when the door is closed by a spring catch or lever arm pivoted to the
said door part.
In carrying out our invention in connection with a fastening for the back door
of an ordinary trap, we secure by small screws or other means to a suitable part
of the back of the body of the trap, an angle or other suitable attachment plate,
having directed outwards from it a projection or stud with a catch gap cut
downwardly from its top edge and extending about half way through it.
. Another attachment plate, secured to an adjacent part of the side of a swinging
trap door, is provided with an eyed plate or staple loop, adapted, on the door
being closed to take over the gapped or hook-like projection of the other part
of the fastener, and when in this position is there secured by a spring lever, catch
or arm, turning upon a pivot or pin carried on the same attachment plate as the
eyed plate aforesaid, being pushed over by the thumb piece at its outer end and
engaged with the gap in the projection.
The underneath part of the inner end of the lever catch is provided with a
suitable abutment against which the free end of a tongue or like spring carried by
the attachment plate bears and so causes the said catch to fly into a locking
position after having been slightly turned.
The gapped plate may be of such a thickness as to fill up the whole of the space
between the back of the lever arm and the front of the attachment plate on the
vehicle body, so that rattling of the parts is prevented, whilst the fore end of the
gapped projection is rounded off so as to form a lead for facilitating the passage of
the gapped plate thereover.
The application of our invention to fastenings for the doors of dog carts,
governess carts and other carriages and road vehicles differs in no essential respect
from its application to the back door of a trap as herein described.
Dated this 5th day of February 1896.
FRANKLIN DAVIES,
FREDERICK WILLIAM LEGGATT,
HENRY VINCENT,
By Henry Skerrett,

page_text: Improvements in Fastenings for the Doors of Traps, Carts, and like
Road Vehicles.
We, FRANKLIN DAVIES and FREDERICK WILLIAM LEGGATT, trading as
S. Mills and Company, of Ryland Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturers, and HENRY VINCENT, of: 27 Bath: Street, Walsall, in the County of
Stafford, Pattern Maker, 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 :-
This invention relates to fastenings for the back doors of traps, governess, dog
and like carts, and other like carriages and road vehicles, and has for its object,
a simple and efficient fastening or catch, neat in appearance and capable of being
cheaply produced.
Our invention consists of a two part fastening, one part being. carried by the
side of the body of a trap or the like and the other being mounted upon an
adjacent part of the door of the same, the two parts being held together or locked
when the door is closed by a spring catch or lever arm pivoted to the said door
part:
In carrying out our invention in connection with a fastening, for the back door
of an ordinary trap, we secure by small screws or other means to a suitable part of
each side of the back of the body of the trap, an angle or other suitable attachment
plate, having directed outwards from it a projection or staple with a catch gap cut
downwardly from its top edge and extending about half way through it.
Another attachment plate, secured to an adjacent part of the side of a swinging
trap door, is provided with an eyed plate or loop, adapted, on the door being
closed, to take over the gapped or book-like projection of the other part of the
fastener, and when in this position, to be there secured by a spring lever, catch or
arm, turning upon a pivot or pin carried on the same attachment plate as the eyed
plate aforesaid, being pushed over by the thumb piece at its outer end and engaged
with the gap in the projection.
.
The iuner end of the lever catch is provided with suitable flats against one or
other of which the free end of a tongue or like spring carried by the attachment
plate bears for retaining the said lever in its fastened and unfastened positions.
The gapped plate may be of such a thickness as to fill up the whole of the space
between the back of the lever arm and the front of the attachment plate on the
vehicle body,
so that rattling of the parts is prevented, whilst the fore end of the
gapped projection is rounded off so as to form a lead for facilitating the passage of
the gapped plate thereover.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents the door of a trap or dog
cart, fitted or provided with a pair of fastenings or catches constructed according
to our invention:
Figure 2 is an elevation of the left hand fastening upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 represents a like view as Figure 2, but with parts broken away, and
showing the position the lever takes when the catch is unfastened, in dotted
lines.
Figure 4 is a horizontal section of Figure 2 upon the dotted 'line.z.
Figure 5 represents a plan. and an elevation of the lever and loop part of the
fastening separately..
Figure 6 represents front and side elevations and an end view of the gapped-
staple plate separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of.the drawings:

page_text: A is the one part of the fastening and B, is the other part. The part A of each
fastening is preferably carried by the back door a, of a trap and the part B by a
side a', of the body part of the same.
The part A, consists of an attachment plate b, affixed by small screws b¹, or
otherwise and carrying a fixed and projecting eyed plate or loop c, adapted to
take over the conical stud or projection d', of the part B, which is secured to the
side of the vehicle by an attachment plate d, through small screws or otherwise.
Mounted upon the part A, is a lever or catch e, with the underside of the fore
part e, adapted to engage with the gap of the staple or projection d', of the
attachment plated, the said lever or catch coming (when in its fastening position)
between the shoulder d³, of the projection and the outer face c', of the eyed plate c.
is a thumb piece at the outer end of the lever e, whilst its joint end e, which is
mounted and turns upon a pivot pin f, is formed with flats e, e, against one or
other of which, the free end g', of a spring g, located within the hollow casing o
at the inner end of the plate c, takes a bearing and so retains the said lever in its
fastened or unfastened positions.
Instead of the lever, bolt or catch being mounted on that part of the fastening
carrying the eyed plate or loop, it may, with like or nearly like effect, be
mounted on the staple plate or part carrying the gapped projection.
The application of our invention to fastenings for the doors of dog carts,
governess carts and other carriages and road vehicles differs in no essential
respect from its application to the back door of a trap as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
First. A two-part fastening for the backs, doors and other hung parts of
carriages and vehicles, one part consisting of an attachment with a fixed eyed plate
or loop projecting from it and a turning lever mounted upon it, with the said eyed
plate adapted to take over a projection on the other part of the fastening and the
lever to engage with a gap formed therein, substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth.
Secondly. In two-part fastenings for the backs, doors and other hung parts of
carriages and vehicles, the combination with the eye plate or loop of the one part
adapted to take over the projection of the other part, of a pivoted lever or a
bolt carried by one of the parts of the fastening, substantially as described and
set forth.
Thirdly. The general construction; arrangement and combination of the parts
of two-part fastenings for the backs, doors and other hung parts of carriages and
vehicles, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 17th day of September 1896.
FRANKLIN DAVIES,
FREDERICK WILLIAM LEGGATT,
HENRY VINCENT,
By Heury Skerrett,
Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants
FRANKLIN DAVIES,
FREDERICK WILLIAM LEGGATT,
HENRY VINCENT,
By Heury Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants