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Sliding door lock

Patent drawing showing a car-door seal lock with a hook-headed sliding bolt, a pivoted gravity catch inside a lock-case mounted on the wood door jamb, and a separate hook-plate for holding the catch up and securing it with a wire seal, illustrated across five labeled figures.

SEAL-LOCK FOR CAR-DOORS.Virgil A. Krepps · December 25, 1883

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