Appliances for Locking the Door- or Doors of Broughams and other Carriages or Vehicles.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Appliances for Locking the Door- or Doors of Broughams and other
Carriages or Vehicles.
I, JAMES FINNEY, of Burton Road, Withington, in the County of Lancaster, Paper
Dealer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The type of carriage to which my Invention, mainly relates, are those provided
with doors, such as broughams, landaus hansom cabs, and other carriages, commonly,
termed "private carriages ;" and the chief object of my Invention is to provide means
by which, thefts of articles from carriages of the kind above stated cannot be made at
times when the carriage is left by the occupant, and in charge of the coachman, or
other attendant on the "box," or at any other times and under various conditions
when the carriage is empty and waiting.
According to my Invention, I provide carriages of the type above specified, with
appliances so constructed and arranged that their door or doors, may be locked, or
unlocked from the box, or drivers seat. A convenient example of appliance arranged
and operated in this manner may consist of a lever disposed on, or at the side of the
"box"having connected with it a bar, or bars, or a spring. These bars are led near,
or through the frame of the carriage to the fastening jam of each door and when
worked by the "box" lever to and fro will cause the bars to project through the
fastening jams and recede alternately. These bars I call the locking bars. In the
door there will be provided suitable recesses to receive the locking bars when they are
pressed forward and project through the door post.
By this arrangement it will be evident that the doors when once closed may be
locked and unlocked at any time by the coachman, or attendant, without their having.
to descend from the box. Therefore, obviously, if this power of control of the doors
be provided and put in the hands of those on the "box," the doors of carriages could
not possibly be opened by others for purposes of theft, or otherwise.
It is preferred to so construct the appliance that to lock and unlock the door the
"box" operating lever should be worked through. an are of. considerable length, as by

page_text: this means no indicision need occur in the mind of the operator in judging whether
the door be locked, or not.
Various kinds of devices may be employed as locking bolts, or bars, such as bolts
operated by a rocking bar and like, or equivalent devices.
Appliances for Locking the Door or Doors of Broughams and other
Carriages or Vehicles.
I, JAMES FINNEY, of Burton Road, Withington in the County of Lancaster, Paper
Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, 'to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The types of carriages to which my invention mainly relates, are those provided
with doors, such as Broughams, Landaus, Hansom cabs, and other carriages;
commonly termed "private carriages;" and the chief object of my invention is to
provide means by which thefts of articles from carriages of the kind above stated
cannot be made at times when the carriage is left by the occupant, and in charge of
the coachman, or other attendant on the "box," or at any other times and under
various conditions, when the carriage is empty and waiting.
According to my invention I provide carriages of the type above specified with
appliances so constructed and arranged that their door or doors may be locked or unlocked
from the box, or drivers seat. A convenient example of appliance arranged and
operated in this manner may consist of a lever disposed on, or at the side of the
"box" having connected with it a bar or bars. These bars are led near or through
the fraine of the carriage to the fastening jamb of each door and when worked by
the "box" lever to and fro will cause the bars to project through the fastening jambs
and recede alternately. These bars I call the locking bars. In the door there will
be provided suitable recesses to receive the locking bars when they are pressed
forward and project through the door post.
By this arrangement, it will be evident that the doors when once closed may be
locked and unlocked at any time by the coachman, or attendant without their having
to descend from the box.. Therefore obviously, if this power of control of the

page_text: doors be provided and put in the hands of those on the "box" the doors of carriages
could not possibly be opened by others for the purposes of theft, or otherwise.
It is preferred to so construct the appliance that to lock and unlock the door, the
"box" operating lever should be worked through an arc of considerable length, as
by this means no indicision need occur in the mind of the operator in judging
whether the door be locked or not.
Various kinds of devices may be employed as locking bolts or bars, such as bolts
operated by a rocking bar and like or equivalent devices.
In the drawings which serve to illustrate this invention Figure 1 is a sectional
elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of a portion of a brougham showing the locking
apparatus according to my invention.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 are respectively sectional elevation, plan, and a detail of
a modified form theroof; Figure 6 is another modified form of same applied to a
singlo brougham.”
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Figure 7 is a plan of the locking device operated by a chain and spring; Figure 8
is an elevation showing the locking bolt, when operated by an electro magnet and
spring; and Figure 9 is an elevation showing an arrangement wherein the locking
bolt is operated by pneumatic pressure.
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Figure 10 is a plan partly in section shewing the locking device arranged to lock
the window, as well as and at the same time as locking the door. Figure 11 is a side
elevation of the device shown at Figure 10.
The same letters and Figures of reference are used throughout the various views to
denote like or corresponding parts.
With reference in the first instance to Figures 1 and 2, a designates the locking
bolts secured to the frame of the carriage by guides a¹; is the recess or receptable
in or on the carriage door h, in which the bolt is inserted and withdrawn ; c is the
bar connecting the operating handle e and lever d to the locking bolts a, and i is
the box seat. It will be seen that the bar c, c is bifurcated, and that the lever dis
of the first order.
Three means of operating the lever d are shown in Figures 1, and 2, namely, in
one case a handle is shown formed directly on the free end of the lever; in another
a knob e and rod e¹ are shown, arranged horizontally; and in the third case the lever
is arranged as a pedal lever and operated by the foot of the coachman or other
attendant. In operation, by operating the device one way or the other, the locking
bolt a either engages with its recess or catch bor is disengaged therefrom.
In the modification shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 the locking is effected by a single
bifurcated bar. The operating knob in this example is provided with a spring
catch e, whereby the door when locked or unlocked can be held in either position
automatically.
With reference to Figure 6 the locking bolts a consist of levers of the first order,
the ends of which fit into recesses or catches in the frame of the door h when locked.
The bifurcated bar c in this case transmits motion to the locking bolts a directly
from the knob e.
In Figure 7 the bolts a are arranged to slide in a sheath a¹ and are operated in
one direction-namely drawn back-by a chain or cord c and pressed outwards by
spring a². The bolt and chain or cord c are connected by a pin c', and the chain
nay be operated from the box seat, in any suitable manner.
Figure 8 shows a bolt a arranged to be operated by an electro magnet k. When
t is desired to unlock the door a current is passed through the magnet in any known
vay and the head of the bolt-which is made in the forin of an armature-is drawn
owards the poles of the magnet: the bolt is thereby drawn from the catch b. The
pring a² presses the bolt outwards; when the current is broken and the magnet is
ot excited. The contact maker-which may be of any known kind-would bo
laced on or in suitable proximity to the driving box.
Figure 9 shows an arrangement in which the bolts are pneumatically worked.
his case designates an ordinary air compressing bellows connected by a tube m
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ith a cylinder n having a piston o, onto the end of which the bolt a is attached. A

page_text: spring a² presses the bolt a back and keeps the door unlocked, and the air compressed
in the cylinder n by the bellows from the driving box forces the .bolt forward and
locks the door.
To prevent the locking bolts being tampered with through the glazed portion or
windows of the doors of the vehicle and also to prevent the said windows being
opened for wrong purposes, I prefer to provide the ends of the bolts a with toothed
racks a³ (or their equivalent), and on the door h I provide a spindle at, on one end
of which there is a toothed pinion a' and on the other end an arm a. When the
bolt a is shot, the rack a³ works the pinion a and thus throws the arm a against
the window as shown in Figures 10 and 11, and prevents the window from being
opened without first withdrawing the locking bolt a.
To lock the apparatus the rod e¹ may be provided with a stop e² and a pin i¹, which
pin can be inserted through the seat i in front of the stop and then locked by a
padlock ².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. The use in connection with carriages of the kind herein specified, of a device
or mechanism for locking the doors thereof, adapted and arranged to be operated from
the drivers or other attendants seat.
2. A door locking device or mechanism for carriages of the kind herein described,
comprising a bolt and catch and an operating handle or other device placed on or in
proximity to the driving box or seat, said operating handle or device being connected.
with, mechanically, or in communication with electrically or pneumatically, the said
bolt, as, or substantially as herein set forth.
3. The carriage door locking mechanisms or devices set forth with reference to
Figures 1 and 2; Figures 3, 4 and 5; Figure 6, Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9 and
Figures 10 and 11 of the Drawings.