AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOBS, AND THE ROSES USED FOR CONNECTING KNOBS WITH DOORS, AND WITH THE CASES OF LOCKS, AND LATCHES, AND OTHER LIKE FASTENINGS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Young, of Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOBS, AND THE ROSES USED FOR
CONNECTING KNOBS WITH DOORS, AND WITH THE CASES OF LOCKS, AND LATCHES,
AND OTHER LIKE FASTENINGS."
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Sealed the 19th April 1859, and dated the 10th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Young at the
Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th February 1859.
I, JOHN YOUNG, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, do bereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOBS, AND THE ROSES USED FOR
CONNECTING KNOBS WITH DOORS, AND WITH THE CASES OF LOCKS AND LATCHES, AND
OTHER LIKE FASTENINGS," to be as follows:-
In making knobs according to my Invention I prolong the hollow axis
beyond the shoulder of the knob, so that the said hollow axis may project
through the rose. The said rose has at its back a tube, into which the hollow
axis of the knob passes, and in which it fits. The said tube at the back of
the rose is split or divided by a plane running along its axis, and one of the
halves of the split tube may be removed for the purpose of permitting of
the introduction of the hollow axis of the knob. The hollow axis of the knob
has a solid collar at its end, so that it cannot be inserted in or withdrawn
from the tube in the rose except by the removal of the moveable half of the
said tube. When the knob axis has been placed in the tube of the rose in

page_text: the manner described, and the rose has been attached to a door, or a lock, or
latch case, the moveable half of the tube in the rose is held firmly in its
place, and the knob is securely attached to the door, or lock, or latch case,
and is capable of a rotatory motion. The axis of the lock or latch enters a
square hole in the axis of the knob, and receives a rotary motion by the
turning of the said knob. ⚫
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Young in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
YOUNG, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Young, Her special licence that I, the said John Young, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Young, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOBS, AND THE ROSES USED FOR CON-
NECTING KNOBS WITH DOORS, AND WITH THE CASES OF LOCKS AND LATCHES, AND
OTHER LIKE FASTENINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Young, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Young, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: My Invention consists of the methods herein-after particularly described,
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, of constructing knobs, and the
roses by which the said knobs are connected to doors, and with the cases of
locks and latches, and other like fastenings.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation a knob and
rose constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 represents the knob
without the rose; and Figure 3 represents an end elevation and vertical
section of the rose. The same letters and figures of reference are employed>
to indicate the same parts in the several Figures.
The hollow axis a of the knob is prolonged, so as to project through the
rose b; the said rose 6 has at its back a tube c, d, into which the hollow
axis a of the knob passes, and in which the said axis fits. The tube c, d, at
the back of the rose is split or divided by a plane passing along its axis into
the two halves c and d, the half c being moveable, for the purpose of per-
mitting, by its removal, of the introduction of the hollow axis a of the knob.
The hollow axis of the knob has a solid collar e at its end, so that the said
axis cannot be inserted in or withdrawn from the tube c, d, except by the
removal of the moveable half c of the tube c, d, when the collar e no longer
prevents the introduction or removal of the axis of the knob through the hole.
in the rose. When the knob axis a has been placed in the fixed half d of the
tube c, d, in the position represented in Figure 1, and the moveable balf c put
in its place, and the rose 6 has been attached to a door, or a lock or latch
case, the moveable half c of the tube c, d, is held firmly in its place, that is
to say, it cannot become displaced; the knob is thus securely attached to the
door, or lock, or latch case, and is capable of a rotatory motion. The axis
or spindle of the lock or latch enters a square hole in the axis a of the
knob, and receives a rotatory motion by the turning of the said knob.
I sometimes modify my Invention in the manner represented in end
elevation in Figure 4 and in side elevation in Figure 5. Figure 6 represents
in section part of the same, and Figure 7 represents part of the same in
elevation. Instead of keeping the hollow axis of the knob in its place in the
tube- of the rose, by making the said tube in two halves, the moveable half
being wholly detached, I make the said moveable half or a semicircular collar
in the form of a lever f jointed at g to the plate h, carrying the fixed portion
i of the tube in which the axis k of the knob works. The curved portion. f¹
of the lever f, passing through a slot in the tube i, engages in the neck or
collar of the knob axis, and prevents the withdrawal of the said axis. By
raising the lever f the part f' is raised from the neck
the axis of the knob may be withdrawn from the tube.
(see Figure 6,) and
The leverf is fixed

page_text: in its place by a screw m passing through an arm in the plate h; the plate h
is attached to the door or lock, or latch case by screws or otherwise, and the
knob, spindle, or axis afterwards inserted in the tube i; and fixed in its place
by the lever f.
my
Figure 8 represents in side elevation; and Figure 9 in end elevation, another
modification of Invention. In this modification the hollow axis 7 carries
one or more pins or projections s, which being brought opposite the recesses
t, t, in the plato u, the axis may be inserted in the tube v. By now turning.
the knob the pins s engage behind the parts v¹ of the tube v, and prevent the
withdrawal of the axis r from the said tube v. The plate u is fixed on the door,
or lock, or latch case, and the axis r is inserted in the tube v.
The lock or
latch spindle being introduced into the axis 7, limits its motion so as to
prevent the pins & coming opposite to the slots t, t; the knob, consequently,
cannot be removed until the spindle has been withdrawn from the axis r.
Figure 10 represents in side elevation, and Figure 11 in end elevation a
modification of the arrangement last described. In this modification the pins
w enter an annular groove a by means of the openings y, and thereby engage.
the axis with the plate 1. the insertion of the lock or latch spindle in the
hollow axis, prevents the removal of the said axis by limiting its rotatory
motion.
Figure 12 represents partly in section an arrangement essentially similar to
that last described, excepting that the plate 1 (Figures 10 and 11) constitutes
a rose 2, the knob 3 having no rose. The rose 2 may be made of iron, and
covered with a shell 4 of brass, or the rose may be made solid, as represented
in elevation and section in Figure 18.
Figure 14 represents in side elevation, and Figure 15 in end elevation,
another modification of my Invention. In this modification the hollow axis 5.
has a tooth or projection 6 at its end,; and the tube 7, in which the axis 5
works, has a slot 8. The axis 5 having been introduced into the tube 7, and
twisted so as to remove the tooth 6 to a considerable distance from the slot 8,
the lock or latch spindle is introduced into the hollow axis 5, and the rotation
of the knob so limited that the tooth 6 is prevented from coming opposite the
slot 8, and the knob thereby secured in its place.
I sometimes connect the knob with the rose in the manner illustrated in
Figure 16 of the Drawing. The hollow axis 10 of the knob screws into the
tube 11 of the rose. When the square spindle is inserted in the tube or.
axis 10, the knob can only perform a partial rotation, and hence cannot be
unscrewed from the rose.
In making knobs of glass, china, and earthenware for locks and latches,

page_text: that is to say, knobs to have hollow axes fixed therein for the purpose of
receiving the square spindle of the lock or latch, I make the said knobs with
solid roses, as represented in Figures 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 of the Drawing.
The way in which I prefer to fix the hollow axis of the knob in the knob
itself, when the said knob is made of glass, earthenware, or other vitreous or
semi-vitreous material, and has a solid rose, is illustrated in the section,
Figure 6. The said hollow axis is provided with two stems or arms 12, 12,
formed by a cross piece 13. The parts 12, 12, are inserted in the hole in the
knob, and fused lead or other cement, 14, is poured down the hollow axis k,
and the said axis thereby secured in the knob. Where the neck of a knob
constructed according to my Invention is expanded at its end so as to form a
solid rose, as represented in Figures 5, 6, 8, and 10, then the plates h, u, and
1 are respectively made less than the said solid rose as represented; but when
the neck of the knob is not expanded into a solid rose, as in the knobs,
Figures 1, 2, 12, 14, and 16, then the said plates h, u, and I are made circular
in figure, and constitute roses similar to the rose b, Figures 1 and 3.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention ; but I
claim as my Invention,―
Firstly, the several methods herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, of constructing knobs and the roses by which the said
knobs are.connected to doors, and to the cases of locks and latches and other
like fastenings.
Secondly, making the knobs of locks and latches with solid roses as herein-
described and represented in Figures 5, 6, 8, and 10 of the Drawing.
Thirdly, the method herein described and illustrated in Figure 6 of the
Drawing, of fixing hollow axes in knobs of glass, china, and earthenware
having solid roses.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Young, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOHN YOUNG. (L.S.)