US1601473A - Shoe for car doors - Google Patents

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Sept. 28 1926. V I F J. GILROY SHOE FOR om noons Filed Sept. 4, 192

Patented Sept. 28; 1926.

FRANK J. eILRoY, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

SHOE FOR OAR DOORS;

Application filed September This invention relates to a device usable on cars having sliding doors which are in common use, and it is intendec to lessen the chance of wrongful opening of frei 'ht cars by removing the shoes secured to tne body of the car and normally holding the closed door against being pried away from the car wall, at its lower side. Usually, analogous shoes are secured to the car by bolts, and not infrequently dishonest persons remove the bolts and by swinging the lower side of the door outward obtain access to the car with out breaking the car seal, and then by replacing the door, shoe and bolts, make detection difiicult.

It is to be considered that while it is a simple matter to cut an opening into any wood or metal car, thieves of the class suggested avoid such expedients, for if detected there is no explanation consist-outwith proper purposes on the part of an employee of the railway, as thieves sometimes succeed in obtaining such employment. If, however, a shoe can be removed with tools ordinarily carried by such employee for legitimate use, it is very difficult to show criminal intent, since the employee usually claims that the car was found in bad order, and he was merely trying to determine its safety and the propriety of allowing it to leave the yard without thorough repair.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a door, car wall, and a shoe in place thereon.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing my guide fixed to a sill.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line i4, Fig. 1.

In these figures, A represents a car door, B a protecting plate on the outer face of the doors lower side, B a car sill, R- the body of a hollow upwardly open box-like shoe.

Primarily, this shoe is open above, only, and in the plane of the doors path, and when in use with the door closed the opening is fully covered and closed by a lid R hinged at O, O, to swing upward about an axis Y when the door has been opened, except for one shoe which engages the door in open as well as in closed position. This shoe must be attached before the door is hung, and it can afterwards be detached only'by removing first one of the door stops 4, 1824. Serial No. 735,938.

cessible only when the lid is raised, as it can be only when uncovered by the door. The door being removed, the nuts of all the shoes may be unscrewed by the use of a suitable wrench.

The outer box wall extends upward to a point M and is laterally slightly rounded outward or away from'the doors path and is integral with large stilfening ribs C. The lids are curved on their free margins, as shown in Fig. 3, to fit the upwardly projecting outer wall of the box, from which, however, they are spaced at N.

As shown, the car floor D is spaced from the door, but it is understood that when desired the device shown may be closed in any approved manner, or by means not concerned in this invention.

It will be observed that the countersunk heads of the bolts P afford no means for rotating the bolts, which in any case are not rotatable in the wood by any ordinary force.

As the guides are of malleable iron, they can, although not heavy, hardly be injured by accident or design, and cannot be removed until uncovered by the door and the lid raised. The lid serves the purpose of excluding extraneous matter.

lVhat I claim is:

1. The combination with a car having a door opening, of a door-receiving shoe, below said opening, in the form of a box open above and closed otherwise and secured to the car wall by bolts having countersunk heads and nut-receiving threaded ends projecting into the box, and a door adapted to cover, when closed, the opening in said box, whereby the nuts are inaccessible while the door covers said opening.

2. The combination with a railway car and its sliding door, of a hollow guide shoe, for the lower side of the door, provided with a hinged lid adapted to open upwardly and excluding extraneous matter.

3. The combination with a freight car and its sliding door, of a shoe, for holding the lower side of the door in its proper plane,

made in the form of a boX open upwardly and its sliding door, of a hollow guide shoe, only and having its outer wall projecting for the lower side of the door, provided with upward alongside the plane of the door, and a lid adapted to exclude extraneous matter non-rotary bolts passing outward from the from said guide shoe. ear wall into the boX and secured by nuts in In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my the latter. signature.

4. The combination with a railway ear FRANK J. GILROY.

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