IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING CATCHES OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING THE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION SECURING THE DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER WAGONS OR TRUCKS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Henry Taylor and James Wilson Taylor,
both of Barnsley, in the County of York, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING CATCHES OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Henry
Taylor and James Wilson Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd April 1874.
We, EDWARD HENRY TAYLOR and JAMES WILSON TAYLOR, both of
Barnsley, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING CATCHES OR FASTENINGS FOR
SECURING THE DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER WAGONS OR TRUCKS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in self-acting catches or
fastenings for securing the doors of railway and other wagons or trucks,
whereby the ordinary studs, cotters, and chains are dispensed with, a
great saving being effected in the wear and tear of wagons or trucks, as

page_text: it frequently happens when a wagon is loaded that the cotters are left
out, thus causing the door to be strained and the side of the wagon
injured in trying to replace the cotters and secure the doors as usually
practiced.
For this purpose according to our improvements we construct self-
acting catches, which consists of a lever catch or pawl moving on a pin
carried by a plate or bracket fixed by bolts to the body of the wagon or
truck. The end of the lever catch is formed with a lip or projection,
which overlaps the edge of the door to secure it in position when closed.
The lever catch is prevented from rising by means of a weighted lever
moving on a pin or stud, so arranged as to be readily moved out of and
into position for opening or closing and securing the door of the wagon
as required. A double pawl or a spring may be employed for keeping
the lever catch in position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Henry Taylor and James Wilson Taylor
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
HENRY TAYLOR and JAMES WILSON TAYLOR, both of Barnsley, in the
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Edward Henry Taylor and James
Wilson Taylor, Her special license that we, the said Edward Henry
Taylor and James Wilson Taylor, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Henry Taylor and James
Wilson Taylor, our 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 In-

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Self-acting catches constructed according to our improvements consist
of a lever catch or pawl a moving on a pin joint at a carried by the
plate or bracket b fixed by bolts 1 to the body of the wagon or truck.
The end of the lever catch a is formed with a lip or projection a², which
overlaps the edge of the door c to secure it in position when closed.
The lever catch a is prevevented from rising by means of a weighted
lever d moving on a pin or stud d', so arranged as to be readily moved
out of and into position for opening or closing and securing the door of
the wagon as required. A double pawl or a spring may be employed
for keeping the lever catch a in position in place of the weighted.
lever d.
When the door is in the act of closing the weighted lever & falls over
on to the latch or catch to prevent it from rising by the jolting or
motion of the wagon or otherwise until moved out of action to allow the
latch or catch to be lifted for releasing and opening the door.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the manner of
performing or carrying the same into practice, we would here observe
that we do not confine ourselves to the exact form or construction of
the self-acting catch or fastening previously described, as the same may
be greatly varied without departing from the principle of its construction
and action; but what we claim is, the improved arrangement, con-
struction, and mode of applying self-acting catches or fastenings to the
doors of railway and other wagons or trucks, substantially in the manner
and for the purposes herein-before described and represented in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Henry Taylor and James
Wilson Taylor, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this
Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.