US732802A

US732802A - Burglar-proof express-car.

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Publication number: US732802A
Application number: US13026702A
Authority: US
Inventors: John W Vaughan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-11-06
Filing date: 1902-11-06
Publication date: 1903-07-07
Anticipated expiration: 1920-07-07

Description

PATENTED JULY 7, 1903,

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-J. W. VAUGHAN. BURGLAR PROOF EXPRESS GAR.

APPLICATION I'ILBD NOV. 6, 1902.

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BURGLAR-PROOF' EXPRESS-CAR;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,802, dated July 7, 1903.

Application filed llovemher fi, 19Q2. Serial No. 130.267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. VAUGHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Granite, in the county of Greer andTerritory of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Burglar-Proof Express-Oar; and I do hereby ferred from the interior to the exterior of the car to expose the assailants to the express messenger and other persons within and prevent the same from being seen from without,

vide a burglar-proof express-car having a.

plurality of normally closed loop-holes or port-holes adapted to be readily opened to permit firearms to be protruded through the sides and ends of the car and aimed in the direction of those attacking the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a car having doors arranged flush with the outer faces of the sides and ends of the car to prevent a charge of dynamite fro being exploded effectively thereat.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described and shown, and particularly pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a burglar-proof express-car constructed in accordance with this invention and shown closed. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the upper portion of the car, the lamps being arranged on the exterior. Fig. 4 is a plan view, the top of the car being removed. -Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of. the upper portion of the car. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view of one end of the car, illustrating the arrangement of the doors.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an express-car designed to have its lower portion constructed of steel or other, bullet-proof material, and this bullet-proof portion will extend the height of a person to prevent robbers from firing through the sides or ends of the car. The car is designed to be provided with side and

end doors

2 and 3, which have their outer faces flush with the outer faces holes or port-holes 5 to enable suitable firearms to be protruded through the walls of the car, and the said blocks,which are cylindrical, are provided with suitable journals and are locked with their imperforate portions at the outer face of the car by means of hooks 6 or other suitable fastening devices. hooks are adapted to be readily disengaged from the rotary cylindrical blocks to permit the same to be turned to arrange the portholes or loop-holes in position for use. By journaling the blocks in this manner they are also adapted to be turned to enable a firearm to be aimed in the desired direction.

The upper portion of the sides of the car are provided with apertures 7, which are normall y covered by automatically-closing shutters 8 and which are opened by lamp-carrying slides 9, adapted, as hereinafter explained, to transfer the lamps or other lighting devices from the interior to the exterior of the car to light up the exterior and expose the assailants and at the sametime'to provide a darkened interior to prevent the persons inside of the car frombeing seen-bythose outside. By this construction the persons defending'the car are enabled to aim their Weapons with great accuracy and without any danger to themselves. The shutters,

These which are hinged at the top at 10, are provided with arms 11 and when opened are arranged at a slight inclination and are adapted, as they lie above the lighting devices, to serve as reflectors for throwing the light downward to enable persons and objects on the exterior to be clearly seen. These shutters are constructed of sheet metal and are designed to be provided with polished inner faces to enable them to form effective reflectors. The arms 11, which are arranged at right angles to the plane of the shutters, eX- teud from the inner faces of the same adja cent to the hinged ends thereof, and those at the opposite sides of the car are connected in pairs by springs 12, which automatically close the shutters and which permit the same to be opened by the light-carrying slides when the latter are moved outward. The slides 9 are arranged on transverse bars 13 and move in guides ll, consisting of metallic sleeves or cull's secured to the transverse bars and extending upward therefrom. The transverse bars which extend entirely across the car are provided with central stops 15, and the slides are connected by links 10 with arms 17, which extend upward from rockshafts 18. These rock-shafts, which are journaled in suitable bearings of the endsof the car, are provided with laterally-extending arms 19, having depending handles 20, by means of which the shafts 18 are rocked to move the slides inward and outward. The slides are provided at their outer ends with upwardlyextending arms 21 for engaging the shutters for opening the same and for supporting the shutters in their opened position. The lighting devices, which may be of any desired form, preferably consist of lamps having reservoirs 22 fixed to the slides and carrying burners. The globes 23 or other forms of chimneys are mounted on

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24 and 25 of upper rock-shafts 26, which are adapted to be partially rotated to lift the globes from the reservoirs of the lamps to permit the latter to be moved outward to the exterior of the car. moved and the lamps are carried outward, the burners afford a large flaring light and thoroughly illuminate the exterior of the car. The arm 25 is provided with an extension 27, projecting in ward from one rock-shaft 26 and arranged to engage the other rock-shaft 26 to limit the movement of the globe-carrying arms. The upper rock-shafts 26 are provided with inwardly-extending arms 28, to which is connected an operating-bar 29, provided with an opening 30 and having opposite teeth or ratchets 31 arranged to engage a rod 32, which passes through the opening 30 of the operating-bar. The operating-barisadapted to be moved upward and downward to rock the upper shafts for raising and lowering the globes.

It will thus be seen that the car is not only burglar-proof, but that the lamps are transferred from the interior to the exterior to ex When the globes are re pose persons outside the car and to conceal those inside the car and that the movable port-holes will permit firearms to be aimed in difierent directions.

It will be understood that various changes in the detail of construction within the scope of the appended claims may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

What I claim is l. A car provided with a rotary block having a port-hole or loop-hole and adapted to be turned to expose and conceal the same, and a locking device arranged on the interior of the car for holding the block against movement, substantially as described.

2. The combination ofa car,having an aperture, a movable lighting device arranged on the interior of the car, means fortransferring the same to the exterior of the car, and a shutter normally closing the aperture, and arranged to be automatically opened by the lighting device, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination ofa car having an aper ture, a shutter normally covering the same, a lighting device arranged on the interior of the car, means operable by the lighting device for automatically opening the shutter and means for transferring the lighting de vice to the exterior of the car, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a car having an aper ture, a shutter normally covering the same, and arranged to form a reflector when open, and a movable light-carrying device provided with a light and arranged to extend through the aperture for opening the shutter and for transferring the light from the interior to the exterior of the car, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a car having an aperture, an autom atically-closing shutter,a lighting device, and a movable device carrying the lighting device and movable through the aperture to transfer the lighting device from the interior to the exterior of the car, said movable device being provided with means for opening the shutter and for supporting the same in an open position, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a car provided at opposite sides with apertures, shutters hinged to the car at the exterior thereof, a spring connecting the shutters and holding the same normally closed, and movable light-carrying devices arranged to engage and open the shutters and adapted to transfer lights from the interior to the exterior of the car, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a car provided with opposite apertures, automatically closing shutters, slides movable through the apertures to open the shutters and provided with arms for supporting the same in an open position and lamps carried by the slides and movable from the interior to the exterior of the car, substantially as described.

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8. The combination of a car provided with opposite apertures, shutters, slides provided with lamps and arranged to extend through the apertures, rock-shafts having arms connected with the slides and means for operat in g the rock-shafts,substantially as described.

slides, and means for operatingthe rockshafts, substantially as described.

11. The combination of a car having apertures and provided with shutters, upper and lower rock-shafts provided with arms, slides connected with arms of the lower rock-shafts,

lamps having separable reservoirs and globes mounted respectively on the slides and on the arms of the upper rock-shafts, means for operating the lower rock-shafts, an operatingbar connected with the upper rock-shafts, and

having an opening and provided thereat with teeth, and a fixed device arranged to be engaged by the teeth, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. VAUGHAN.

Witnesses:

A. L. ELLIOTT, THOS. H. BROWN.