Applicable-to-other similar Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th June, 1887.
Applicable-to-other similar Purposes.
I, JAMES GORDON, of 30, Leopold Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This Invention has reference to improvements in the means of attaching handles to
drawers, doors and other articles and it is applicable to other similar purposes such
for instance as for attaching centre knobs, knockers, handles, name and letter plates
to doors.
Such drawer handles as now ordinarily made are attached by means of two screwed
shanks formed therewith or otherwise connected thereto which pass through the front
of the drawer and are there secured by an ordinary nut being screwed thereon inside
the drawer. As such screwed shanks are made long enough to pass through the
thickest drawer front and through the nut, it follows that when the handle is attached
to a thin drawer the ends of the screwed shanks project through the nuts in an
unsightly manner which it is the object of my Invention to overcome.
I will describe my Invention as applied for instance to a drawer handle having two
ordinary screwed shanks for its attachment to a drawer.
According to my Invention I make the screwed or centre part of the nut, which is
screwed on to each of the shanks to secure the handle to the drawer, much thicker
than heretofore, by forming a central screwed boss on that side of the nut which is
next the drawer front, such boss being preferably a little less in length than the
thickness of the thinnest drawer front to which the handle is required to be attached.
Each of the screwed shanks are made of such a length that when a nut is screwed on
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page_text: each to attach the handle to the thinnest drawer front the ends of the shanks will be
flush or almost flush with the faces of the nuts inside the drawer. Each of the
screwed shanks is thus only about the same length as would be required for its end to
be flush with an ordinary nut when attached to the thinnest drawer front, but by
means of the said boss on the nut I am enabled to unscrew the nut to suit a much
thicker drawer front without its being detached from the shank.
My Invention can be applied for fixing handles to doors and other articles and for
fixing centre knobs, knockers, name and letter plates and other articles having screwed
shanks to doors and other articles of different thicknesses similarly as above described
with reference to a drawer handle.

page_text: Applicable to other similar Purposes.
I, JAMES GORDON, of 30, Leopold Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, 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 has reference to improvements in the means of attaching handles to
drawers, doors and other articles and it is applicable to other similar purposes such
for instance as attaching centre knobs, knockers, handles, name and letter plates to
doors.
An ordinary method of attaching such drawer handles is by means of two screwed
shanks formed therewith or otherwise connected thereto which pass through the front
of the drawer and are there secured by an ordinary nut being screwed thereon inside
the drawer. As such screwed shanks are made long enough to pass through the
thickest drawer front and through the nut, it follows that when the handle is attached
to a thin drawer the ends of the screwed shanks project through the nuts in
an unsightly manner which it is the object of my Invention to overcome.
I will describe my Invention as applied for instance to a drawer handle having two
ordinary screwed shanks for its attachment to a drawer.
According to my Invention I make the screwed or centre part of the nut, which is
screwed on to each of the shanks to secure the handle to the drawer, much thicker
than heretofore, by forming a central screwed boss on that side of the nut which is
next the drawer front, such boss being preferably a little less in length than the
thickness of the thinnest drawer front to which the handle is required to be attached.
Each of the screwed shanks are made of such a length that when a nut is screwed on
each to attach the handle to the thinnest drawer front the end of the shanks will be
flush or almost flush with the faces of the nuts inside the drawer. Each of the
screwed shanks is thus only about the same length as would be required for its end to
be flush with an ordinary nut when attached to the thinnest drawer front, but by
means of the said boss on the nut I am enabled to unscrew the nut to suit a much
thicker drawer front without its being detached from the shank.
On the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a sectional
plan of a drawer handle affixed to a thin drawer front according to my Invention and
Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the same handle attached to a thicker drawer front;
Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the eyes and nuts of the same together and Fig. 5
represents the same eye and nut separately. Fig. 6 is a front elevation and Fig. 7 a
sectional side elevation of a handle having a single screwed shank to which my
Invention is applied.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.

page_text: a is the handle plate, b is the handle, c, c-are the screwed shanks, each having an
eye d, d, all of the ordinary construction and e is the drawer front to which the
handles are fixed. f, fare the nuts which are screwed on to the shanks c, c each nut
having a central screwed boss f¹ on that side which is next the drawer front. The
bosses are preferably made a little less in length than the thickness of the thinnest
drawer front so that they almost pass therethrough when fixed in position (see Fig. 2)
the screwed shanks being made just long enough for their ends to be flush with the
outside of the nut. The bosses fl on the nuts allow of their being unscrewed along
the shanks c, c to suit a much thicker drawer front without becoming detached from
the shank (see Fig. 3) and whether the handles are attached to a thin or a thick
drawer the ends of the shanks will not protrude beyond the face of the nuts.
My Invention can be applied for fixing handles to doors and other articles and for
fixing centre knobs knockers, name and letter plates and other articles having screwed
shanks to doors and other articles of different thicknesses similarly as above described
and illustrated with reference to a drawer handle.
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 improvements in the means of attaching handles to drawers and other
articles and in fixing centre-knobs knockers name and letter plates and the like having
a screwed shank or screwed shanks, consisting in the application and use on the
screwed shank or screwed shanks of a nut having on one side a screwed boss for the
purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. The combination with the loop d and its screwed shank c of the nut fitting
thereon and provided on one side with the boss f¹ for the purpose and substantially as
described and illustrated.