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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM A. BUCKNER, OF DALHART, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM R. SCOTT,
OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.
VESTIBULEISTOCK-C.AR.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 26, 1908.
Application filed August 22, 1907. Serial No. 389,725.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. BUCKNER,
a citizen of the United States, residing at Dal-
hart, in the county of Dallam and State of
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Vestibule Stock-Cars, of which
the following is a specification.
This invention relates to vestibule stock
cars, and in some respects it is an improve-
10 ment upon the invention disclosed in Let-
ters Patent No. 769,128, granted to me on
August 20, 1904, and to which reference may
be had.
One of the objects of the present invention
15 is to securely hold the doors comprising a
vestibule in their open and closed positions in
such a way that when said doors are open and
when one of two coupled cars is moved rela-
tively to the other no injury can result to the'
20 said doors.
The invention includes other advantageous
features which with the foregoing will be fully
set forth in the following description, while
the novelty of said invention will be included
25 in the claims succeeding said description.
In the drawings accompanying and form-
ing a part of this specification I illustrate in
detail one form of embodiment of my inven-
tion which, to enable those skilled in the art
30 to practice said invention, and for this pur-
pose alone, will be fully disclosed in said de-
scription.
Referring to said drawings: Figure 1 is a
side elevation of the adjacent ends of two
35 coupled cars equipped with vestibule means
involving my invention. Fig. 2 is a hori-
zontal sectional top plan view of the same,
the section being taken on the line 2-2 Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation of one of the cars
40 shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 4 is a cross
sectional inside view of said car. Figs. 5 and
6 are perspective views both on an enlarged
scale of certain bars hereinafter more par-
ticularly described.
45 Like reference characters refer to like parts
throughout the several figures.
e In Figs. 1and 2I have shown two stock
cars, as 2 and 3, coupled together, and in
Figs. 3 and 4, I have shown one of these cars,
50 for example, the car 2. These stock cars
may, except for the vestibule means con-
stituting my invention, be of ordinary char-
acter, for which reason no extended descrip-
tion of the same is necessary.I will describe in detail that part of the 55
vestibule means which is connected with one
of the cars, for example, the car 2 in Figs. 3
and 4, and this, as will be understood, will
apply to the other car as in this respect the
two are of duplicate construction. 60
In the end of the car 2 is a door frame 4,
the opening of which is adapted to register
or substantially register with the opening in
the door frame of an adjacent car, as 3. To
the sides of the door frame 4 I hinge doors as 65
5 of substantially similar construction, the
hinges connecting the doors with the frames
being denoted in each case by 5. When
these doors are shut, as shown in Figs. 3 and
4, one is adapted to overlap the other. 70
When, however, the doors are open, they ex-
tend at right-angles to the end of the car, as
shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2. Upon one of
the doors 5, as, for example, that to the right
in Fig. 3, I fasten in some suitable way, as by 75
screws or rivets, an offset arm, as 6, co6pera-
tive with a lever, or hasp, as 7, pivoted upon
the other door. In the present instance, the
hasp or lever 7 is straight and is movable
about a horizontal axis. By lifting the hasp 80
or lever 7 out of engagement with the offset
arm or keeper 6, the two doors 5 may be
opened, provided a bar, as 8, is not in its
operative position. The bar 8 is also straight
and is pivoted to one of the sides of the frame 85
4, the other frame side being provided with a
staple or equivalent device, as 9, to extend
through a slot or opening in the free end of
the bar 8 at which time a pin, as 10, flexibly
connected with the door frame 4 can be 90
passed through the staple 9 on the outside of
the bar 8 to hold the latter in place. The
bar S when in its operative position crosses
the two doors and prevents them being
swung open by stock striking against the 95
'doors or by a shifting load in the car 2.
To open the doors 5 the pin 10 will be re-
moved from the staple 9 after which the bar
8 can be moved from off the staple 9 and then
swung out of the way of the two doors. 100
When this is done the hasp or lever 9 can be
lifted out of the offset arm 6 to permit the
opening of the two doors 5. If desired I
may connect with the lower end of the pin
10 the familiar car door seal when said pin is 105
in place. To the sill of the door frame 4 I
fasten the plate 11 which extends down-
wardly and inwardly into the car at an angleNo. 889,176.
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Buckner, William A. Vestibule Stock-Car, patent, May 26, 1908; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508582/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.