IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE HANDLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Sleigh and William Hawley, both of
Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Coach Ironmongers, for the
Sealed the 30th November 1875, and dated the 7th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Sleigh and
William Hawley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 7th June 1875.
We, JOSEPH SLEIGH and WILLIAM HAWLEY, both of Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, Coach Ironmongers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE HANDLES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists principally of three important advantages,
namely, improved appearance, strength, and facility in fixing the
handles of a coach or carriage door..
In carrying out our Invention we provide a square (by preference)
spindle of sufficient length, and run it through a screw plate, on which

page_text: said spindle we cast or otherwise fix the principal handle; the loose
collars or roses are then slipped on. We next construct the inner
handle, having a parallel square hole to slide on the said square spindle,
and next is a thoroughfare nut (hexagon by preference), having a short
thread or worm outside at one end made to receive a cap nut, which may
also be of hexagon or any other convenient form.
The mode of fixing the said coach handles is as follows:-The hole
being bored through the coach door the spindle is passed through the
door and lock or turn, the loose collars or roses being on either side the
door; the inside handle is then slipped on the spindle, the thoroughfare
nut screwed on or placed by the spindle, the length marked on the
spindle, which is then withdrawn and cut to the desired length; the
spindle is then replaced, the thoroughfare nut screwed against the inner
handle, the spindle rivetted, and the cap nut scrowed on; the handle is
then complete.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Sleigh and William Hawley in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 7th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
SLEIGH and WILLIAM HAWLEY, both of Walsall, in the County of 1
Stafford, Coach Ironmongers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Sleigh and William
Hawley, Her special licence, that we, the said Joseph Sleigh and
William Hawley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Joseph Sleigh and William Hawley, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS

page_text: Figure 1 represents the handle. a is the outer handle; 6 is the inside
handle, of which c is the sectional view through the dotted line d; e is
a nut used to screw the two handles the proper distance from each
other; is the lock nut cap used to screw over the end of the spindle
after it is cut to the right length and rivitted; 9 is a rose or washer,
also h, both being used to steady the spindle when in action; ¿ is the
square spindle on which the rose 9 and the handle 6 are made to
slide.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, we declare that we do not confine
ourselves to the exact form of spindle or nuts shewn, but what we
claim is, the parallel spindle in combination with the sliding handle and
rivitting nut with the lock nut cap, in the manner shewn and herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Sleigh and William
Hawley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
JOSEPH SLEIGH.
WILLIAM HAWLEY.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)