摘要 |
In a railroad car having relatively sliding doors, a lock device including a hasp pivotally mounted on a first door and having a loose fit therewith, said hasp having an elongated shank and a free cam end the provided with a tapered diagonally extending bevel portion and a lower seal locking portion, a keeper housing including an enclosed hasp cam entry slot portion and a vertically open wedge receiving chamber portion and a seal and locking portion cooperative with the hasp portion for locking and sealing of the hasp when the hasp cam portion is within the hasp cam entry slot, and a vertically extending wedge locking pin extendable into the vertically opened wedge receiving chamber portion and having a complementary diagonally extending beveled edge portion for engagement with the bevel edge of the hasp, said wedge cam portion being stowed behind the hasp shank within the wedge locking pin chamber, said wedge pin having an upper portion above the bevel edge engageable with the keeper housing top to limit downward movement of the wedge pin and having a lower end portion engageable with a keeper mounted seat below the keeper wedge chamber, the lower end of said wedge pin further having an abutment engageable with the underside of said keeper housing to limit upward movement of said wedge pin, the engagement of the bevel edge of the wedge pin with the bevel edge of the hasp cam within the wedge pin chamber wedgingly preventing removal of the wedge pin and hasp from the keeper housing mounted on the other associated door of the car.
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