An Improved Bolt or Fastening for Windows, Doors, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bolt or Fastening for Windows, Doors, and the like.
I, ROBERT WAUGH, of 10, Caerleon Road, Newport, in the County of
Monmouth, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved bolt or fastening for windows, doors, ships'
skylights or side lights and the like.
My improved fastening consists of a bracket having a bolt sliding therein and
a socket designed to receive one end of the said bolt when the fastening is secured.
The said bolt is arranged in conjunction with a spring which normally tends to
move the bolt out of the socket and the socket is provided with a spring-catch
adapted when the bolt is pushed into the socket to enter a groove or recess in the
said bolt to retain the latter in its locked position.
To release the bolt I move the spring-catch so as to disengage it from the said
groove or recess, a hole being formed in the socket to permit of a pin or key being
pressed against the catch to disengage it as described.
A great advantage of my improved fastening is that it prevents the rattling of
the window, door and the like to which it is applied as the spring which is used
in conjunction with the bolt tends when the latter is locked to press the two parts
of the fastening together.
Dated this 25th day of July 1894
An Improved Bolt or Fastening for Windows, Doors, and the like.
I, ROBERT WAUGH, of 10, Caerleon Road, Newport, in the County of
Monmouth, Engineer, 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 an improved bolt or fastening for windows, doors, ships'
skylights or side-lights and the like.
My improved fastening consists of a bracket having a bolt sliding therein and a
socket designed to receive one end of the said bolt when the fastening is secured.
The said bolt is arranged in conjunction with a spring which normally tends to
move the bolt out of the socket, and the socket is provided with a spring-catch
adapted when the bolt is pushed into the socket to enter a groove or recess in the
said bolt to retain the latter in its locked position.
To release the bolt 1 move the spring-catch so as to disengage it from the said
groove or recess.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved bolt or fastening for windows,
[Price 8d.]

page_text: doors, ships' skylights or side-lights and the like, the said bolt being shewn applied
as a casement or door fastener:
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2, Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3-3, Figure 1; and,
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 3 but shewing the door partly opened.
a is the bracket portion of the fastener having the bolt 6 sliding therein, and c is
the socket portion of the said fastener into which the bolt b projects.
d is the catch which is carried in the socket part c and acted upon by a spring e
to cause it to automatically engage with the groove f in the bolt 6 when the latter
is projected into the socket. The catch is preferably formed of a small piece of
metal made hollow or concave on one edge, as shewn in Figure 2, so as to engage
with the groove ƒ more securely than a catch with a straight edge would, and is
attached to a rod g having a base piece h against which latter the spring e bears,
the said rod 9 projecting as shewn in Figure 2 so that it can be operated to release
the catch.
The catch d is bevelled upon one side as shewn in Figures 3 and 4 and the end
of the bolt b is made conical so that when it comes into contact with the said catch
the latter will move back to allow the groove to come opposite the catch.
When the catch is disengaged from the bolt, the latter is moved back under the
action of a spring i, a pin ; projecting into a slot k in the said bolt serving to
prevent the latter being moved out of the bracket.
A great advantage of my improved fastening is that it prevents the rattling of
the window, door and the like to which it is applied as the spring i which is used
in conjunction with the bolt tends when the latter is locked to press the two parts
of the fastening together.
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
1. A fastening for windows, doors or the like having two parts, one of which
has a sliding bolt and the other a socket to receive one end of the said bolt and a
spring-catch adapted to engage with the said bolt automatically and to be
disengaged therefrom by pressure upon a rod, substantially as described.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved fastening for windows, doors and
the like, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
.drawing.
Dated this 10th 1
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.