US356307A

US356307A - Car-door

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Publication number: US356307A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-01-18
Anticipated expiration: 1904-01-18

Description

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G. J. FERGUSON.

GAR DOOR. No. 356,307. F/y- Patented Janv. 18, 1.887.

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GEORGE J. FERGUSON, OF GREENVILLE, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-EIGHTH TO EDWIN F. STAHL AND SAMUEL BRANTHOFFER, OF SAME PLACE, AND ALMER L. DOWNER, OF PITTSBURG, TEXAS.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,307, dated January 18, 1887.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE JoNEs FEE- GUsON, of Greenville, in the county of Hunt and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gar-Doors, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention is an improvement in cardoors, and has for an object to provide a simple construction by which the door in its open I and closed positions may be pressed firmly in against the side ot' the car, and by which the door maymore perfectly protect the contents of the car from the weather than the doors ot' ordinary construction; and the invention consists in certain features of construction and novel combinations ot' parts, as will be described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of a portion ot' a car provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of aportion of a car provided with my improvements, the door being shown open in full lines and closed in dot-'ted lines. Fig. 8 is a detached vertical section on line .fc x, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the central stop. Fig. 5 isadetailed section drawn through the rail D, the stop E, the rear projection, F, and a part of the door when the latter is in a closed position. Fig. 6 is a sectional view drawn through 3o the rail, the projection F, and a part of the door when the door is between open and closed positions; and Fig. 7 is an inner side view of the stop E, showing thesame in connection with a portion of the track.

The car A has doorfopening a, and is provided at the edge l of said doorway with a stop-bar, B, which has its face b beveled inwardly from its outer to its inner edge. The door G has its front edge, c, beveled to tit the 4o beveled face b, and such parts close tightly together when the door is shut. Below the doorway a, and extended in rear thereof, I secure the track D, which has its ends d d tapered or inclined gradually into the side of 4 5 the car, forming wedges. The end d is arranged at the edge 1 of the doorway, while the end d is arranged a distance beyond the opposite edge equal to the width of the door. The end d of the track is also bent upward toward its extremity, as shown, in order to elevate the 5o front edge of the door when the door is closed, and this incline upward of the track,together with an incline on the center stop, present-ly y described, serves to force the door upward and form a close joint at the top.

Track D supports the door by straps F resting therein, and provides a means of sliding the door to open and closed position.

Vithin the track,midway between the ends el d', I arrange the central stop, E, having in- 6o clined or wedge-shaped faces e e', extending toward, respectively, the ends d d of the track. This central stop is located at the edge 2 of theY doorway, and is preferably formed of a single casting having the wedgefaccs e e and the stop portion e?. at the juncture thereof. The stop also hasa beveled or inclined face, e3, arranged above the face e', and inclining upward from the outer to the inner end of said face e', so that it will engage the hanger projection of the 7c door and elevate the outer edge of the door when the door is closed.

The door C has at its opposite edges hanger projections or straps F F, which project below its bottom, and are then bent or turned down within the rail D, and the part on which the bottom of door rests slides on the track D, and engages incline e3 and end d. For convenience of reference, I term these the front7 and rear projections. l The construction and arrangement of the rear hanger projection, in connection with the rail and the stop E, are shown most clearly in Figs. 5 and 6,.

In Fig. 5 the door is shown closed and pro- 85 j ected upward by the incline e, Thisincline, as shown in Fig. 7, starts on a level with the f track D, and then rises above said track.

In Fig. 6 thc position of side of car, track, and door is shown when the door is between 9o open and closed position.

vThen the door is closed, its iront and rear projections will engage, respectively, the end d and face c', and in the open position of the door the projections will engage face e and g5 end d. In both open and closed positions, therefore, the door will at its lower and top edges be pressed firmly in and up, forming a very tight joint, and preventing any jarring of the door; but while moving between either of these open or closed positions the door will have free motion, as the downward projections of F F can :nove outwardly to the rail or track D, and straps F F when moved i'roin closed position will move down to the natural level of track D.

At its upper edge, the door is tapered or inclined upward l'roin its front to its rear side, and such edge slides in an o\\'erhangingguidestrip,G,having a beveled face, g, corresponding to the edge 3 ofthe door. In rear ofslrip G, I forni anupwardly-projected groove or way, Lt, extended longitudinally in a horizontal line, or in line with the direction of movement of the door.

Upon the inclined edge 3 of the door I secure a plate, ll, ol:` metal, resting flat against the said edge, and provided at its inner side with an upwarally-projected tlange, l1, which' slides in the groove or way 4. Thus it will be seen the plate serves to guide and retain the door at its upper edge, and sheds the water iiowing down the outer face of the strip G, preventing such water from passing down the joints between the planks Yt'orining the door.

By arranging the strips G and B above and at the edge l ofthe doorway and incliuing the faces thereof, which are engaged by the door to forni inclined bearings, the door will bind in tightly at both its front and top edges, when the wedge constructions force it inward and upward at its lower edge as the door is closed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claiin as new isl. rlhe combination of the carhavingguidestrip G, having face g, and provided with'au upwardly-projected groove or way,4,the door,

and the plate H, secured on the upper edge of the door, and having a flange, h., slidingin way 4, substantially as set forth.

2. rIhe combination of the rail D, having' its ends d d inclined inward, forming wedges. and provided between said ends with the wedges e e', and the door having projections iitting within the rail and engaging said wedges in the open and closed positions of the door, substantially as set forth.

3. The car having a doorway and provided at the edge l and above the same with inclined bearings, combined with the door having its front and top edges fitted to said bearings and wedge constructions for forcing theloweredge of the door inward against the car, substan.

tially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the track having its ends Z d bent inward, forming wedges, and the door having projections F at its lower end, tting within said rail and engaging the ends d d', of a center block, E, secured within the rail midway the ends Z d', and formed with wedge-faces e c', substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the car having a doorway and provided above the same with a way and below it with a track forthe door, ot' the door and wedgesurfaces for i'orcing the door upward in the closed position thereof, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE J. FERGUSON.

Ni t n esses l. B. TURPIN, SoLoN G. KEMON.