Improvements in Catches or Fasteners for the Doors of Cupboards and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1891-Accepted, 18th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Catches or Fasteners for the Doors of Cupboards
and the like.
I, JAMES WRIGHT, of Dale Street, Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster,
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide a cupboard door fastener which will
automatically secure the door on its being closed and will hold the two doors closed
without the addition of a bolt hook or other contrivance on the inner or first
shutting door.
It consists essentially of a pivoted barb ended catch held in position by a spring
and moved or tilted out of contact with its catch by a lever acting on the other end
either in form of a pivoted lever which moves in straight plane or of a cam or
rotative lever which acts angularly upon thereon.
In carrying out the invention I construct the fastener in the form of an oblong
or elongated catch barbed at the outer end to engage with a corresponding catch to
be attached to the shelf or other permanent fixture inside of the cupboard. At the
other or inner end this elongated catch is pivoted with the end projecting a short
distance beyond the pivot. This projecting end is preferably inclined or tapered
or otherwise formed so as to engage with the inclined or projecting end of another
pivoted lever or of a cam or projection on a rotating spindle. The second pivoted
lever or the cam spindle carries a knob or other suitable handle at the outer end.
The fixed catch is placed preferably under the shelf and so prevents any interference
with the full use of the shelf. The catch is released in the one case by simply
pulling down the knob or handle and in the other by turning it part of a revolution
on its own axis. The action in either case is to raise the inner end of the pivoted
catch thereby depressing the outer end and releasing it from the fixed catch. To
lock the cupboard an ordinary lock is so placed against the pivoted catch that
when the bolt is projected it comes in contact behind the pivoted catch and so
prevents it being moved.
The knob or handle may be made in any shape to imitate the present cup-
board turns or fasteners and of any design in brass, iron, china wood or other
material.
The apparatus is extremely simple and easy to fix as it is carried by a barrel
which will fit into a centre-bit hole with a washer or head to receive two or three
screws.
Dated this 17th day of September 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Catches or Fasteners for the Doors of Cupboards
and the like.
I, JAMES WRIGHT, of Dale Street, Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster,
Builder, 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:-
This invention is designed to provide a cupboard door fastener which will
automatically secure the door on its being closed and which can be applied to hold

page_text: It consists essentially of a pivoted barb ended catch held in position by a spring
and moved or tilted out of contact with its catch by a lever acting against the other
end either in the form of a pivoted lever which moves in a straight plane or of a
cam or rotary lever which acts angularly thereon.
It will be fully described with reference to the annexed drawings.
Fig. 1, is side elevation of my invention with pivoted catch actuated by a
pivoted lever.
Fig. 2, side elevation of same when moved to disengage the catch.
Fig. 3, transverse section of same.
Fig. 4, side elevation showing pivoted catch actuated by rotary lever or cam.
Fig. 5, plan of Fig. 4.
Fig. 6, transverse section of Fig. 4.
The fastener is constructed in the form of an elongated catch A barbed at a near
the outer end to engage with a corresponding fixed catch B attached to the shelf
or other permanent fixture C inside the cupboard. The catch A is pivoted at or
near its other end to the fixed casting or bracket D on the pivot d with the end à¹
projecting a short distance beyond the pivot.
Referring more particularly to the example shown in Figs. 1-3 the projecting
end a of the pivoted catch A is inclined so as to offer but little friction to a second
lever E which engages with it. The lever E is pivoted on the pin to the
bracket D its end e being formed either inclined or of other suitable shape to engage
with the end a' of the catch A. On the outer end of the lever E is placed a knob
or handle F which can be drawn down to release the catch A, and the catch A is
returned to normal position by the spring A'.
Referring to the example shown in Figs. 4-6 the projecting end a¹ of the pivoted
catch A is formed so as to engage with a cam or lever g on the end of a spindle G.
The spindle G rotates about its axis and the angular movement of the cam or
lever g under the projecting end a¹ of the catch A. depresses the other end and
disengages it from the fixed catch B. A knob or handle F is affixed to the outer end
of the spindle G wherewith to turn it. The fixed catch B is placed preferably under
the shelf and so prevents any interference with the full use of the shelf. The
catch is released in the one case by simply pulling down the knob or handle
and in the other by turning it part of a revolution on its own axis. The action
in either case is to raise the inner end a¹ of the pivoted catch A thereby
depressing the outer barbed end a and releasing it from the fixed catch B. To
lock the cupboard an ordinary lock H is so placed against the pivoted catch
that when the bolt is projected it comes in contact under the pivoted catch A
and so prevents its being inoved.
The knob or handle F may be made in any shape to imitate the present cup-
board turns or fasteners and of any design in brass, iron, china, wood, or other
material.
The apparatus is extremely simple and casy to fix as it is carried by a barrel
or bracket D which will fit into a central hole with a rose f to receive two or three
screws.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A catch or fastener for the doors of cupboards and the like having a pivoted
barb ended catch held in position by a spring and actuated by pivoted or rotary
lever at the inner end substantially as described.
2. In a catch or fastener for cupboard doors and the like the combination of a
pivoted catch A. barbed at one end a bracket D to which it is pivoted a spring A¹
and a second lever E or cam or lever which operates the pivoted catch substan-
tially as described.

page_text: 3. A catch or fastener for cupboard and other doors with the several parts
constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown with reference either
to Figs. 1-3 or 4 to 6.
Dated this 27th day of May 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.