AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MAKING AND FIXING OF KNOBS GENERALLY USED ON DRAWERS, DOORS, AND CABINET FURNITURE, AND KNOWN BY THE NAMES OF DRAWER AND MORTICE FURNITURE KNOBS OR HANDLES
Year: 1818

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES.
BARRON, of Wells Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, Brass
Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His; most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of Decem-
ber, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
James Barron, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial: licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James Barron, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MAKING AND FIXING OF KNOBS GENERALLY USED ON DRAWERS, DOORS, AND CABINET
FURNITURE, AND KNOWN BY THE NAMES OF DRAWER AND MORTICE FURNITURE
KNOBS OR HANDLES;" in which said Letters, Patent there is contained a
proviso that if I, the said James Barron, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,

page_text: and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more!
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Barron, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the following description thereof and annexed Drawings,
that is to say:-
The principle of my improvement in drawer knobs consists in the method of
fixing them more firmly than usual, by preventing them from being turned
round on the outside of the drawer when once fixed, likewise the method of
making the wood centers which are to be used with the said knobs.
My improvement in mortice furniture knobs or handles is in the fastening
the cup of the knob firmly on the spindle of the lock by screwing it down
against the bottom, leaving the end of the spindle to receive different centers.
Also the particular method of making the wood centers for the same. The
whole of which are shewn by Drawings 1, 2, 3, and 4.
There are various sizes and patterns of the above-mentioned knobs, and
the fastenings are made of a suitable strength to each size.
Figure 1 shews as knob complete before it is fixed to the drawer. A is
the cup or body of the knob which may have various fronts to it. B is the
rose or bottom part of it. These two parts are firmly connected to: each other at
a, a, by an iron washer being put in each of them and rivetted fast together
inside the cup or body. The bottom of the iron washer in the rose B, has a
hole which is screw'd or tapped inside of it to receive screw C; it is made
either square or the squares may be fluted on each side to fit a little way into
the drawer front at b. I prefer square when the drawer front are made of
hard wood, on account of their being more readily let into the wood than
those that are fluted; but in soft wood I prefer fluted washers, as the force of
the screw will draw the corners of the flutes into the wood without the use
of a chissel or gouge, which it will not do in hard wood. I have shewn the
bottom of the washer square in the knob Figure 1, but in the washer E
I have shewn it fluted; but each are to answer the same purpose of preventing
the knob from turning round. The washer E has likewise a small projection
atc to prevent the screw from drawing it too far into the wood to disfigure the
rose B; the screw C is put in from the inside of the drawer, and screws into

page_text: the hole which is screw'd or tapped in the iron washer E, which fixes it firm
and compleat. D shews the iron washer before it is put into the cup, and
E the iron washer before it is put into the rose and rivetted to washer D.
The front that goes into the drawer front at 6 I prefer either square or fluted,
as separately drawn (as before described) at 6 and b, but it may be made
octagon, triangular, or any other form that will answer the same purpose.
Figure 2 shews a wood center, which may be used with the said knobs; it
is turned the size of the cup, and is fixed to it by means of brass rim, which
wraps over the edge of the wood center, and is turned over the edge of the
cup in the same manner as the brass fronts are usually fastened. K shows the
wood of the center, L the brass rim, and M the section of the said wood
center and brass rim. The application of the screw C which fastens the
knob from the inside of the drawer and the formation of washer E to prevent
the knob from turning round and rivetting it to washer D, together with the
application of the wood center, is new, and what I claim as my improvement in
Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 3 shews the spindle and cup part of a brass mortice furniture knob
befor the center is put in to render it compleat. The application of the nut
d as applied to this kind of knob with the sinking in the bottom of the cup
at d to receive the nut, as likewise screwing the spindle at e to receive different
centers, also the particular method of making the wood centers, is new, and
what I claim as my improvement.
Figure. 4 shews the section of the wood center which is intended to screw
on the end of the spindle at e, and makes the above knobs compleat. The
method of making the said wood center is as follows:-fis the front part,
which is made of ornamental wood; 9 is the under part, and made of any
plain wood; h is a brass nut made in a taper form, which is screwed or
tapped to screw on the spindle as e, and is fixed in the middle of the under
piece of wood. The front f is glued on the under part 9 crossways of the
grain, which prevent the wood from casting, and at the same time keeps the
said nut h firm in its place, the nut being put the largest end next the front,
as shewn in the Drawing, Figure 2. Wood center likewise may be used,
with brass mortice furniture knobs, in the same manner as specified in the
drawer knobs when the spindle and cup are made and fixed in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Barron, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and nineteen.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid James Barron came before' our said.
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged, the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing, therein.. contained 'and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification' aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and nineteen.