US597821A - Safeguard for express-cars - Google Patents

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J LAMBORG SAFE GUARD 03 EXPRESS CARS.

No. 597,821. Patented Jan 25, 1898.

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JonnLAMnone, or CASTALIA, SOUTH DAKOTA.

SAFEGUARD FOR EXPRESS-CARS.

srnorrxon'rrou forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,821, dated January 25, 1898.

Application filed June 26, 1897. Serial lilo. 642,515. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatl, JOHN LAMBORG, acitizen of the United States, residing at Gastalia,

in the county of Charles Mix and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safeguards for EX- press-Cars; and I do declare the following to.

be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved safeguard or shield for express, baggage, and postal cars and the like; and the object is to provide a device of this character by which the occupants of the car can protect themselves while defending the contents against the attack of trainmobbers, road-agents, or other dcsperadoes.

To this end the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the outside of a railway-car provided with my improved safety shield or guard. Fig. 2 is a similar view taken from the inside of the car. Fig; 3 is a transverse section.

1 represents a rectangular opening or orifioe thereon at any convenient point in the side of the car, and 2 represents a sheet-steel casing pivoted at its upper end by the hinge 3 to the inside of the car above the opening 1.

This casing comprises triangular parallel walls 4 and 5, the inner edges of which are provided with angular flanges 6 6, which abut against the side of the car when the casing is extended. The bottom 7 of the casing which connects the triangular walls is also provided with an angular flange 8, which rests against the side of the ear to assist in holding the casing in place when in use.

An integral rib 9 on the outside of the sheetmetal casing abuts against the outside of the side of the car, and it serves to retain the casing in. line with the outer side of the car when said casing is housed.

10 represents a peep-slit whereby the'occupant of the car may observe persons on the outside Without exposing himself to danger, and 11 11 represent orifices formed in the easing through which the firearm may be extended. 4

It will be observed that the casing when extended completely fills the orifice or opening in the car, so as to prevent the possibility of a shot entering the car between the joints. Although I have specificallydescribed the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. In a railway-car, or other apartment, the combination with a wall thereof having an aperture therein, of a suitable receptacle closely fitted into, and pivotally suspended from the top of, said aperture so as to vibrate therein, and open on its inner side, and means forlimiting the vibratory movements of said receptacle, the exposable portions of the side walls of said receptacle being provided with a suitable loop, and sight-hole, substantially as described.

2. In arailway car, or other apartment, the combination with a wall thereof, having an aperture therein, of a suitable receptacle closely fitted into, and pivotally suspended from the top of, said aperture, so as to vibrate therein, and consisting of an outer or pivoted Wall, and inwardly projecting and inclosing side Walls, and bottom wall or seat, said side walls being provided with suitable loop and sight holes,.and means for limiting the vibratory movement of said receptacle, substantially as described.

receptacle, said receptacle being actuated by gravity to normally assume its inward position, substantially as set forth.

4. In a railway-car, or other apartment, the

combination with a wall thereof, having an aperture therein, of a suitable receptacle closely fitted into, and pivotally suspended from the top of said aperture, so as to vibrate inwardly and outwardly therein, and consisting of an outer or pivoted wall, and inwardly projecting and inclosing side and bottom walls, said side Walls being provided with suitable loop and sight holes, and laterallyof the side and bottom walls, and at the outer projecting flanges arranged at the inner edges 5 edge of the bottom wall, said receptacle being adapted to be actuated by gravity to normally assume its inward position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my 20 signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LAMBORG.

Witnesses:

FRED (3. ELFES, A. M RTENsoN.

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