Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb.. 1896
WALTER HENRY ASTON James Street Worcester Builder aud Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to reduce the cost of manufacture and improve the
method of securing all kinds of door knobs to their spindles.
The method hitherto adopted has been to cast a metal neck or mount into which
the threaded spindle is screwed, such neck being rolled or spun over the knob.
My invention consists in substituting a metal bush, screwed or otherwise, which is
driven into the neck of the knob; a hole is drilled through the neck & metal bush,
the latter being threaded, through which the set screw is driven & fixes the spindle
in position in the knob & prevents it further turning. A metal socket or tube
is then slipped over the neck of the nob & fixed in position by screwing into the
door. This socket consists of a cast or stamped rose or plate into which a short
metal tube having a shoulder cast or stamped into it is inserted & fixed in position
by means of the shoulder & by rolling the overlapping edge onto the back of the
rose or plate.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.
WALTER HENRY ASTON,
James Street, Worcester.
WALTER HENRY ASTON James Street Worcester Builder and Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of this invention is to reduce the cost of manufacture of that class
of door furniture in which a socket is placed over the neck of door handles to
prevent the screw which holds the knob to the spindle from coming loose.
The method hitherto adopted has been to cast a metal neck or mount into which
the threaded spindle is screwed, such neck being rolled or spun over the knob.
My invention consists in substituting a metal bush, screwed or otherwise, which
is driven into the neck of the knob without the necessity of rolling it over the neck,
a hole is drilled through the neck & metal bush, the latter being threaded through
which the set screw is driven & fixes the spindle in position in the knob and
prevents it further turning. A metal socket or tube is then slipped over the neck
of the knob & fixed in position by screwing into the door. This socket consists of
a cast or stamped rose or plate into which a short metal tube having a shoulder cast
or stamped into it is inserted, & fixed in position by means of the shoulder & by
rolling the overlapping edge onto the back of the rose or plate.
The accompanying drawing will illustrate the arrangement. A denotes the
metal bush which is driven into the neck of the knob B. C is the metal socket or
tube which is secured to the metal or other rose D, & in which is cast or stampe!

page_text: the shoulder E. F is the set screw which passes through the neck & metal bush
to the spindle G. A hole is formed in C large enough to allow the screw F to
pass entirely through it, the tube is then partially turned round on the neck of
the knob covering the set screw, thus preventing it from getting loose or escaping
from its position, the rose is then secured in position by screwing into the door."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1st. In conjunction with the construction of door handles, the combination of
the use of a bush which is simply driven into the neck of the handle without being
rolled over the edge thereof, with the socket or tube placed over such bush and
neck for the purpose of preventing the set screw which secures the spindle to the
knob from escaping or getting loose.
Dated this 21st day of January 1896
W. H. ASTON,
James Street, Worcester.