An Improved Guard for Railway Carriage and other Doors.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 20th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Guard for Railway Carriage and other Doors.
I, EDMUND ROBERT BALLER 16 Cambridge Arcade Southport Lancashire,
Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in the construction and arrangement of parts heroin-
after described to prevent a persons fingers, garments etc. becoming shut in between
the hinged edges of doors and frames and are as follows-
I fix on hinges to the frame and near the hinged side of the door a piece or
pieces of wood or other suitable material (hereinafter called the guard) the said
guard being fixed so that it lies against the door. In this guard & on the side
next the door I make a groove across horizontally. On the door and near the
hinged side of the guard I fix a stud having a hinged neck or shank, the said stud
is so fixed that when the door is closed the head of the same is situated in the
groove in the gnard and near the edge of the door.
I will now proceed to describe the action of my said invention in referenco to the
before mentioned parts. On opening the door the stud on the door slides along the
groove in the guard and draws the same across the aperture made between the door
and the frame. On closing the door the stud passes back along the groove before
mentioned and carries the guard to its original position against the door.
Instead of using the stud and groove before mentioned to actuate the guard I may
use a spring, the same boing so fixed against the guard that when the door is
opened the spring will cause the guard to follow the door and so cover the aporturo
made between the door and the frame before mentioned. On the door being closed
it carries the guard back to its original position.
I may in each case reverse the order of the different parts and fix the guard on
the door and the stud on the frame, or the spring on the door with the guard as the
case may require.
Dated this 31st day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
'An Improved Guard for Railway Carriage and other Doors.
EDMUND ROBERT BALLER 16 Cambridge Arcade Southport Engraver 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 object of my invention is to prevent a persons garments, fingers etc. from
becoming shut in between the door and frame at the hinged end of a railway
carriage and other doors and the same is carried out in the following manner.
Referring to the annexed drawings,
Fig. 1 is an inside view of a railway carriage door with my guard affixed with
door shut.
Fig. 2. section of same with door open.
hinged stud affixed to carriago
a railway carriage door hinged at b to frame c.
door a at de groove in guard which allows the head of stud d to pass backward
& forward when the door is opened or closed. is a plate with a slot made in it
horizontally & fixed on the inside of guard for the neck of stud d to pass through
and to keep the said guard in position across the aperture made between the door &
frame when the door is open.

page_text: Fig. 3 is similar to Fig. 2 except that in this case the guard is kept in position
by stud d having a hole made in it through which is passed a rod marked h. this
rod is fixed in the aporture e in the guard before mentioned. On opening or closing
the door the stud d'alidos backward or forward along the rod h.
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 doors the combination of guard fattached to the framework of door together
with parts g and attached thereto, and the hinged stud d attached to the door a
at d' substantially as described.
2. In meaus of preventing a persons garments etc. from becoming shut in railway
carriage and other doors, a guard attached to the frame of the carriago door &
working on a hinged stud attached to the carriage door.
Dated this 21st day of March 1893.