Year: 1888

page_text: 1, FREDERICK JOSEPH STOKES Screw Manufacturer of Green Street, Doritend,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Instead of, as is usual, manufacturing finger plates in one piece with the holes
5 for the screws or nails therein I manufacture my improved finger plate in two or
more parts, which parts may be of different materials, for instance the centre part
may be of china, glass, wood, or other suitable substance and the two end parts may
be of stamped metal with suitable screw or nail holes therein & of such formation
that when fixed in position on a door they firmly hold in place the centre part.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of and Method of Attaching in
Position Finger Plates for Doors.
.
I FREDERICK JOSEPH STOKES, Screw Manufacturer of Green Street Deritend,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, 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 :-
Instead of as is usual manufacturing finger plates in one piece with holes for the 5
screws or nails therein I manufacture my improved finger plates in two or more
parts which parts may be of different materials for instance the centre part may be
tof china, glass, wood or other suitable substance and the end parts may be of stamped
metal with screw or nail holes therein and of such formation that when fixed in
position on a door they firmly hold in place the centre part. I may use two or 1
more clips to attatch the plate in position, which clips I manufacture by means of
pressing or stamping from sheet metal or by means of casting, and so arranged that
they may be fixed by means of screws or nails, or in some cases by parts of
themselves suitably turned at right angles to the main part and sharpened.
By means of my invention finger plates for doors may be manufactured more
economically and fixed in position more easily than at present and at the same time
being composed of two or more materials may be of a more handsome appearance
than at present for example the centre part may be of polished wood, porcelain or
glass and the ends or corner clips clips of metal.
I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 show a finger plate the centre part of which A is held in position by means
of four corner clips B. B B B.
Fig. 2 shews a finger plate the centre part of which is held in position by means
of the two end pieces or clips D. D. each of which entirely hides the ends of the
centre part.
Fig. 3 shews a further modification in which the centre part E is held in position
by means of two small end clips F F the drawings are full size one way and cut
through the other the lengths being various. I do not confine myself to the shapes
arrangements of parts or designs of clips or plates shown in the drawing but may
manufacture my finger plates or clips of any suitable pattern shape or design.

page_text: 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
Firstly The manufacture of and methods of affixing in position finger plates for
doors as herein described.
Secondly The manufacture of finger plates for doors with the centre parts of one
kind of material and the ends or corner clips as above described of a different
material and with the nail or screw holes in them instead of in the body of the plate
as at present in use.