Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 19th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
I HENRY JAMES MOORE of 38 & 39 Clerkenwell Close London E.C. Clock
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A method of simultaneous bolting and locking from the outside any door, window
casement, shutter, safe, cabinet, drawer, box, cellar flap, or pavement plate in such a
manner that the same cannot be opened but by the master-key.
This consists of a lever or arm attached to the handle of door, window or other
article above mentioned so that the bolt is thrown thereby in the required direction.
This bolt is slotted in such a manner that a spring lock comes into operation and
prevents the return of the bolt until the bolt of the lock is raised either by the key or
inside knob. The number of bolts are not limited but one lock controls all.
I also make an arrangement by means of which the handle of the door is detached
from the lever which throws the door bolt. This consists of two plates one or both
which is or are toothed on the face, the one carrying the lever or disc which is
intended to throw the bolt running free on the spindle, a helical spring or ballance
keeping it apart from the other except when the handle is pulled outward to make
thein engage.
I also apply these plans of throwing the bolt or bolts by the handle but fix the stud
used for that purpose on a disc and make a transverse slot in the bolt for same to
act in.
The bolt of the lock may rest on the door bolt or be made with an inclined plane
so that the bolt can be thrown quite clear of it.

page_text: Self Locking Bolts for Doors and the like.
HENRY JAMES MOORE 38 & 39 Clerkenwell Close London E.C. Clock Manu-
facturer 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 for the more secure fastening of doors, safes, casements, desks,
drawers, boxes and pavement plates and consists of one or more bolts controlled by a
disc or arms attached to a spindle which can be turned from the outside by means of
the ordinary knobs or by a Railway key, against one or more of which bolts a spring
lock of any approved make is made to act as a detent, so that until the bolt of the
lock is withdrawn by the handle from the inside or by its own key from the outside,
the bolts cannot be thrown back. I also provide the spindle with two discs or plates
one of which is squared, keyed or otherwise firmly fixed to the spindle, and the other
is allowed to run free. One or both of these discs is or are toothed on the face and
attached to the free running disc are the pins or studs which control the bolts; these
discs are kept apart by means of a helical spring and are made to engage by the
handle being pulled from the outside. The lock used may have a bolt bevelled to act
over an inclined plane before falling into its slot in the door bolt, or a square bolt
kept in suspension by resting against the door bolts when this is thrown back.
The door bolts I bevel on the inside for the purpose of drawing the door close and
preventing draught.
AADlin
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
1stly. The application of spring locks of any make to one or more bolts securing
doors &c.
2ndly. The security afforded by strong internal bolting combined with the smallness
of key necessary to control the same.
3rdly. That a door so bolted will admit less draught and be of special advantage
applied to French casements.
4thly. That the gearing arrangement applied to the spindle and the separate action
of lock and bolt will from their secresy be a protection.
Dated this 18th dor of November 1907
HENRY JAMES MOORE.