Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1887
Complete Left, 13th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
1 RICHARD FLADGATE of 11 Tottenham Mews Tottenham Street W.C. in the county
of Middlesex Cabinet Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improved means for securing double doors, panels and the
like and is designed to obviate the necessity for using the ordinary bolts or other
fastenings.
According to my invention I mount on the bottom or top (or both) of the structure
or carcase a pin.
I arrange on one door or panel or the like a frame or fixture carrying a cam or
hook pivoted thereto or thereon and which can abut on the said pin and be locked
thereto when pushed home.
The other door, panel or the like carries a projection or stud.
A suitable stop or abutment may be placed on the top or bottom of the structure or
carcase for both doors panels or the like to close against.
When the door, panel or the like carrying the cam or book is pushed to or closed
the opposite one is then also closed, its projection or stud catches against the cam or
hook so causing it to turn upon its axis and engage with the pin on the bottom or
top of the structure or carcase.
The doors are thus secured from opening so long as the outer door remains
in position which may be assured by means of a lock or catch in the ordinary
manner.
1
1000
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I RICHARD FLADGATE of 11 Tottenham Mews Tottenham Street W.C. in the county
of Middlesex Cabinet Maker 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 :-
My invention relates to improved means for securing double doors panels and the
like and is designed to obviate the necessity for using the ordinary bolts or other like
fastenings independent of course of the securing lock.
Referring to the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation of my invention as
applied to a pair of double doors one being shewn open, the other door which shuts
over it to secure the doors together being shewn shut to, so exhibiting a lock or latch
for securing both doors together and which lock or latch may be of any suitable
construction.
Fig. 2 is a plan of my invention showing the working parts as fitted to either door
or panel.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the striking surface and Fig. 4 an elevation and plan of a
modification of the same.
According to my invention I mount on the bottom or top (or both as shown in
Fig. 1) of the structure or carcase A (say of a bookcase) a pin B. I shew two
pins B B¹ at top and bottom, but for doors or panels through which persons pass or
goods are in transit I prefer to use a pin B, only on the upper part of the structure or
carca se and over the door or panel.
I arrange on one door or panel or the like a frame or fixture D carrying a cam
or hook E pivoted thereto on a pin F and which cam or hook can abut on the said
pin B and engage therewith when the door or panel carrying the fixture has been
pushed home. The fixture D is slotted to fit the pin B as shewn and the slot may be.
slightly inclined as shewn or be straight. The other door panel or the like C¹ carries
a projection or stud G. This as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 may be formed with a
bevelled surface H to strike the cam or hook E or else be formed as in Fig. 4 with a
sunk bevelled surface. A suitable stop or abutment may be placed on the top or bottom
or on both, of the structure or carcase for both doors panels and the like to close against
if desired, which stop or abutment is not shewn in the drawings. It might take the
form of a ledge at the top or bottom or both.
When the door panel or the like C carrying the cam or hook E is pushed to or
closed, the opposite one C¹ is then also closed its projection or stud GH catching
against the cam or hook E so causing it to turn on its axis F and engage with the
pins B B on the top and bottom of the structure or carcase.
The doors are thus secured from opening so long as the outer door C¹ remains in
position which may be assured by fitting a spring or like lock or catch I thereto in the
ordinary manner to engage with the other door (). By panels doors and the like I mean

page_text: structures moving on hinges or pivots and opening and opening and closing from a
structure or carcase.
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 1
claim is
Firstly. The improved means for securing double doors, panels and the like con-
sisting in providing one pivoted or hinged door or panel such as C with a pivoted cam
or hook E adapted to engage with a pin B on the structure or carcase and providing
the other pivotted or hinged door or panel such as C with a projection or stud G so
arranged that when the door or panel C is closed and the other door or panel C' shut
upon it, the said projection or stud G shall strike the pivoted cam or hook E causing
it to turn on its pivot and engage with the pin B thereby securing the door panel or
the like C to the structure or carcase substantially as described, a suitable lock or latch
securing the doors panels or the like together.
Secondly. The general arrangement and combination of furniture for doors panels
and the like, operating substantially as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
+000
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.