IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE DOOR HANDLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Hopkins, junior, of White Hart Place,
Kennington Cross, in the County of Surrey, "Coach Beader, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE DOOR HANDLES."
Sealed the 19th February 1864, and dated the 26th August 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Hopkins, junior, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th August 1863.
I, THOMAS HOPKINS, junior, of White Hart Place, Kennington Cross, in
the County of Surrey, Coach Beader, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE DOOR HANDLES," to be as
follows:-
My improvements in carriage door handles consists in sinking the nut,
securing the inside lever handle to the spindle within a recess made in the boss
of said handle, and then concealing the whole with a button or knob of any
suitable ornamental character instead of the spindle projecting right through
the boss, and being secured by a nut on the outside as usual. This button
turns on a pin mounted eccentrically to the opening in the boss, so that by
simply pushing the button on one side the aperture may be disclosed for
unscrewing the nut.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Thomas Hopkins, junior, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th February 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HOPKINS, junior, of White Hart Place, Kennington Cross, in the County of
Surrey, Coach Beader, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh
year of Her. reign, did,. for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Hopkins, Her special licence that I, the
said Thomas Hopkins, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Hopkins, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE DOOR HANDLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Hopkins, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Thomas Hopkins, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
My improvements in carriage door handles relate to the inner crank or
lever handles of broughams and other carriages, and consist in sinking the
nut, securing the inside lever handle to the spindle within a recess made in the
boss of said handle, and then concealing the whole with a button or knob of
any suitable ornamental character. Instead of the screw of the spindle pro-
jecting right through the boss and being secured by a nut on the outside as
usual, the button, ornament, or cover turns on a pin mounted excentrically to
the opening in the boss, so that by simply pushing the button on one side the
aperture may be disclosed for unscrewing the nut when it is required to remove
the handle from the lour. In fixing the inner or lever handle to the carriage
spindle in the first instance it is readily effected and the nut hidden from
view, which is at same time easily removable if required as before described.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a side view of a lever or inside handle for brougham and
athen nosioce door fitted and soused to the windle of th doon look on

page_text: fastening according to my Invention ; Fig. 2 represents an end view of the
same; while Figs. 3 and 4 represent the spindle and handle separately. The
spindle a at the part fitted to the handle, socket, or boss b, is square or of other
suitable form to fit in and be turned by the boss b; the part fitting in the
handle is formed of such length that the end of the spindle remains sunk a
little below the level of the boss; it has a screw c formed on it, and is fitted
with a circular screw nut d, a recess being formed in the boss 6 for the recep-
tion of the nut d, so that the nut may be sunk flush with or rather below the
face of the boss b. The nut d being circular is turned and fixed on the screw c
by a double turnscrew or driver fitting into the notches in the face of the
nut d, as well understood in turning similar nuts in other positions. In order
to cover in the nut d and spindle end I mount a plate e on pin f, placed
eccentrically thereto, so that when the plate e is moved on the pin f as on a
centre it moves off or on to the end of the boss b and so covers or uncovers the
nut d. I make the plate e to move stiffly on its pin f, so that it will remain
firmly in any position in which it may be turned. The other parts of the
handle and spindle will require no description, being the same as usual.
Having described the nature of my Invention. and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention, to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, fixing the
inside handles or levers of broughams and other carriages by means of a nut
or any other mechanical equivalent sunk or recessed in the boss of the handle
or lever and covered by a plate, all as herein-before described and represented
in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hopkins, junior, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
TA
THOMAS HOPKINS, JUN. (L.B.)