An Improved Method of and Means for Securing Door, Cupboard, and like Handles upon their Spindles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1898-Accepted, 11th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Securing Door, Cupboard,
and like Handles upon their Spindles.
I, ALEXANDER OLIVER CAIRNS, of 105, High Street, Portsmouth, in the
County of Hampshire, Jeweller, 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 improvements in the fixing of the handles of doors,
cupboards, and the like upon their spindles, which I effect more quickly and easily
than hitherto by the means of springs instead of the screws heretofore employed for
and in order to make my invention clearly understood reference is
purpose,
hereinafter made to the accompanying drawings of which
that
Figs. 1 and 2 are sectional plan view and side elevation respectively, of one end
of a handle spindle according to my invention.
Figs. 3 and 4 are inner end view and vertical central section respectively of a
door or cupboard handle adapted for fixation upon Fig. 1 according to my
invention.
Fig. 5 is a repetition of Fig. 4 shewing the spindle Fig. 1 in position thereon,
and both in a position upon a door or cupboard.
Fig. 6 is a view of a piece of bent spring wire such as may be conveniently
employed for releasing the said handle from its spindle when desired.
I carry my invention into effect by forming upon each end, and at opposite
sides of a handle spindle such as A, recesses such as a a', of such depth and
length as to receive steel springs 6 and 61, rivetted together and to the
spindle A by a pin c, at or near the ends of A, and in such a way that their free
ends point towards the door or cupboard, and may be pressed down into a and a¹ or
stand out therefrom.
The porcelain or other handles B are excavated to receive the ends of the
handle A at d, the said excavation being conically widened at e to receive the
springs b, 6¹ as hereinafter explained. The handle B has a steel or other washer f,
in the centre of which a square hole g is formed, the diameter of which is such as to
permit the passage of the spindle A.
To fix the handle upon the spindle the end of the latter would be pushed into the
former until the end of A abuts against the end d, the free ends of the springs 6 61
being compressed into the recesses a a' during this operation, but when the said
springs have passed through the hole g, these would spring out into the conical
excavation e, so that their free ends would abut against the shoulders formed by
the washer as shewn at Fig. 5, when it would be impossible to disconnect B from Å
until the said springs 6 and 6' were again depressed, which can be effected by the
means of two bradawls or pieces of wire passed through holes h and h¹ formed in
the handle B for this purpose, the ends of the said bradawls or wires by thus press-
ing upon the springs 6 and 6' would force these back into the recesses a a', when
the handle may be easily slid off A. In Fig. 6 I show a piece of steel or other
spring wire so curved and bent as to provide two projections ; and j³, which may

page_text: be caused to enter the holes h and h¹ so that when these projections are pressed
towards each other they may compress the said springs as stated.
In order that the handle when fixed as set forth may not have any back lash or
play upon the spindle A, or the said handle work loosely through the lock or door
or both, I provide in connection with each handle a brass or other spring washer C,
which (when the second handle is fixed upon A) press against the door at one side
and the lock at the other, or at each side of the door as the case may be as at Fig. 5,
and by these means the handles B are kept at their extreme distance from each
other, and with 'the ends of the springs 6 61 abutting firmly against the washer f.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The fixation of door, cupboard, and like handles upon their spindles, by the
means of springs substantially as herein described and shewn.
2nd. In the fixation of door, cupboard, and like handles, the combination of a
spindle A, having recesses a and a¹, in which are fixed springs such as b b¹, a
handle such as B having an excavation such as d e, washer f borings h and h¹ and
spring washer C; connected and operating substantially as and for the purposes
stated and shewn by the appended drawings.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.