IM- PROVEMENTS IN WARDROBĘ, AND SUCH LIKE LATCHES AND PARTS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bilbrough, of the Hackney Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN WARDROBĘ, AND SUCH LIKE LATCHES AND PARTS CONNECTED
THEREWITH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bilbrough at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th December 1870.
L GEORGE BILBROUGH, of the Hackney Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARDROBE AND SUCH LIKE LATCHES AND PARTS
CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
The object of the improvements is simplicity and security in the
application and use of the parts of wardrobe and such like latches. For
this purpose in place of the spindle of the latch being formed on or
affixed to the knob, and the spindle being with the knob secured to the
latch by an inside screw, the inside face of the latch is closed; the

page_text: spindle is a separate instrument, and when the latch has been applied to
the door, one end of the spindle in form corresponding with the hole in
the "follower" is passed through the door into the "follower," whilst
the other or projecting end is received into a hole in the knob, also of
form corresponding with that end of the spindle, and the knob is applied
to the door by means of a fixing plate held between a flange on the neck
of the knob and the knob itself, so as to retain the knob to the door and
yet admit of its freely turning. By these means facility is afforded for
adaptation to various thicknesses of doors.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Bilbrough in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BILBROUGH, of Hackney Road, in the County of Middlesex, Iron-
monger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Bilbrough, Her special
licence that I, the said George Bilbrough, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Bilbrough,
my 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN WARDROBES AND SUCH LIKE LATCHES AND PARTS CONNECTED THERE-
WITH," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Bilbrough, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Bilbrough, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the improvement is simplicity and security in the
application and use of the parts of wardrobe and such like latches. For
this purpose in place of the spindle of the latch being formed on or
affixed to the knob and the spindle being with the knob secured to the
latch by an inside screw the inside face of the latch is closed; the
spindle is a separate instrument, and when the latch has been applied to
the door, one end of the spindle in form corresponding with the hole in
the "follower" is passed through the door into the follower, whilst the
other or projecting end is received into a hole in the neck of the knob
also of form corresponding with that end of the spindle, and the knob is
applied to the door by means of a fixing plate held between a flange on
the neck of the knob and the knob itself, so as to retain the knob to the
door, and yet admit of it freely turning. By these means facility is
afforded for adaptation to various thicknesses of doors.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will, by the aid
of the wing Throwing ameond to dosaniho

page_text: To facilitate the application of the knob e. on to the end of the
spindle d after the spindle has been placed in position the knob is formed
with a neck e¹ to. pass through the fixing plate e³, and it is there held by
the application of the washer or ring e³ and the turning down on such
ring e³ of a portion of the neck e', as shewn. By these means when the
fixing plate e¹ has been fixed by screws or otherwise to the door of the
wardrobe or other place the knob may freely turn thereon to operate
the latch by a spindle d. The length of the spindle d will vary of
course with the thickness of the door or other place to which the latch
is applied.
The form or character of the latch, will also vary in different cases.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it, understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details shown and described, as
these may be varied, but what I do claim is, the arranging or com-
bining parts of wardrobe. and such, like latches and parts connected
therewith. to admit of the use of a free spindle thereto, substantially as
explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bilbrough, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
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