IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ADJUSTING RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND OTHER DOORS.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stanhope Albany Say of 21 Braborne Grove Hollydale
Road Peckham in the County of Surrey for an Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS FOR ADJUSTING RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND OTHER DOORS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stanhope Albany Say at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th June 1882.
STANHOPE ALBANY SAY of 21 Braborne Grove, Hollydale Road, Peckham.
in the County of Surrey IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ADJUSTING RAILWAY
CARRIAGE AND OTHER DOORS.
The invention has for its object improvements in means for adjusting Railway
Carriage and other doors
For this purpose I form the door post in two parts one of which is a fixture
whilst the other is movable to and fro thereon this latter that is to say the
movable door post is guided at its ends and if desired intermediate thereof so as
to guide it firmly and yet permit it to be moved in the required direction without
danger of twisting or working loose and I prefer for this purpose to employ
inetallic tenons and mortices or other fittings. The door is hinged to the movable
door post and motion is given to the latter when required by any suitable means
I prefer however to employ screws passing freely through holes in the movable
door post and fixed in auch manner as to prevent any longitudinal motion of the
screws therein but permitting the same to be rotated when desired in nuts formed
or fixed in the fixed door post and thereby cause the movable door post to
approach or recede from the fixed door post either equally from top to bottom
thereof or more at one part than another according to the adjustment required
to cause the door to shut correctly against the shutting post
Covering strips, plates or mouldings are employed to cover or enclose the space
between the fixed and movable door posts on the inside or outside

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Stanhope Albany Say in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th December 1882.
STANHOPE ALBANY SAY, of 21 Brabourne Grove, Hollydale Road, Peckham,
in the County of Surrey, "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ADJUSTING RAILWAY
CARRIAGE AND OTHER DOORS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in means for adjusting Railway
Carriage and other doors.
For this purpose I form the door jamb in two parts, one of which is a fixture
while the other is movable to and fro thereon. The movable door jamb is guided
at its ends, and, if desired, also at any intermediate point, so as to guide it firmly
and securely, and yet permit it to be moved in the required direction without
danger of twisting or working loose; and I prefer for this purpose to employ
metallic tenons and mortices or other fittings. The door is hinged to the movable
door post, and motion is given to the latter, when required, by any suitable means.
I prefer however to employ screws passing freely through holes in the movable
poor post, and fixed in such manner as to prevent any longitudinal motion of the
screws therein, but permitting the same to be rotated, when desired, in nuts
formed or fixed in the fixed door post, and thereby cause the movable door post
to approach or recede from the fixed door post either equally from top to bottom
or more at one part than another, according to the adjustment required, in order to
cause the door to shut correctly against the shutting post.
Covering strips, plates, or mouldings, are employed to cover or enclose the space
between the fixed and movable door posts on the inside or outside, or both.
A modification of my said invention consists of an arrangement whereby I
dispense with the movable door jamb, and so construct and arrange the hinges, that
such hinges may be caused to recede from or approach nearer to the door jamb, by
means of screws, and the adjustment of the door is thereby effected.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood, reference is
hereby made to the accompanying drawings, and the figures letters and numbers
thereon;
similar letters and numbers indicating corresponding parts in the several
figures.
Fig. 1 is a view of a portion of the door and jambs (in elevation) of a railway
carriage, fitted in accordance with my said invention. a is the fixed door jamb,
a' is the movable door jamb, to which the door b is fixed by means of the hinges
cc, as shown. d d are the adjusting screws, for regulating the distance of a
from a. The upper and lower ends of a' are fitted with tenons e e fitting into
suitable mortices, as shewn, the mortices being longer than the tenons in order to
allow of the adjustment. I prefer to construct these tenons and mortices of metal.
is a bead which is fitted to a', and is free to slide upon or against a, to cover the
orening, if any, left between a and a'. One of such beads may be fitted on each
side of the two jambs, and may be permanently attached either to a or a'. The
bead is shewn broken off at fi in order that the space between the two jambs
may be seen.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation of a portion of Fig. 1. The screw d
has a shoulder at d', whereby the screw is prevented from drawing out, and any
other suitable means may be adopted which allows the screw to rotate in the
socket. The nut d' is firmly fixed in a, a portion thereof being made square as
shewn to prevent its rotation. The screw d fits into the nut d², and is capable of
drawing a towards a, or of forcing them further apart.

page_text: Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation showing one mode of applying my said invention
to a hinge direct, without the intervention of a movable door jamb. a is the
permanent door jamb. e is the hinge attached to the door. The arrangement of
screws and nuts may be similar to that shewn in Figs. 1 to 4 Fig. 6 is a front
view of a hinge so fitted.
Figs 7 and 8 represent another mode of adjusting the door by shifting the hinge.
Fig. 7 being a sectional view on the line 5, 6, of Fig. 8. By slightly unscrewing
the four screws 7, 8, 9, 10, and lastly the screw marked 11, the body of the
hinge can be moved away from the door jamb a to the necessary distance for
adjusting the door. It will be seen that the head of the screw 11 is under the
plate of the hinge, and thus its head is the means of drawing away the hinge,
when turned left-handed by means of a screw driver inserted in the corresponding
hole of the hinge.
A screw with a cylindrical head and shoulder may be used as shown in Fig. 10
by the screw marked 11.
Fig. 9 is an elevation of a fixed door jamb, with adjustable hinges as shown.
Fig. 11 shews another mode of fitting the screws to adjust doors by means of
the hinge. d is the adjusting screw, the head of which abuts against the back
of the hinge plate o, this screw can be turned by means of a screw driver, when
the screw d has been removed. d is tapped into d as shewn, d being bored and
tapped to receive ď².
By the arrangement shown in Fig. 12 a plate g is permanently fixed to the
door jamb a, d is the adjusting screw for regulating the distance between
the hinge plate o and the door jamb, the screw d' holding the hinge plate against
the head of d; and-Figs. 13 and 14 are modifications of Fig. 12. d is made with
a collard, and by means of the screw d and nuts the necessary adjustment can
be effected.
In Figs. 11, 12 and 13, the ordinary screws are added, although not shewn in
these figures.
Any number of adjusting screws, and of any convenient size, may be fitted to
the several arrangements herein before described.
I prefer to fit laths or fillets of any suitable material in the spaces between
the door and the jamb, when a space is left by adopting the arrangements shewn
in Figs. 5 to 9.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not confine myself to any particular mode of fixing the adjusting
screws, as numerous methods of fixing the same may be employed; but what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture and use of adjustable door jambs, and the means and
appliances in connection therewith, substantially as herein before described and
shewn on the drawings Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
2. The means and appliances for adjusting doors, dispensing with the movable
door jambs, substantially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings
Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
In witness whereof I the said Stanhope Albany Say have hereunto set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.