An Improved Method of Fixing Locks to Cupboards, Boxes, and similar Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Fixing Locks to Cupboards, Boxes, and
similar Articles.
I, ARCHIBALD PRENTICE LEDWARD of Willow Bank, Whalley Range,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Gentleman do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of fixing locks to cupboards, boxes,
cabinets etc., by means of one strong gimlet-pointed screw of steel or other suitable
metal attached to the back plate of the casing of the lock. This screw is inserted
into the framework or door of the cupboard or other article by turning the body of
the lock itself as one would the handle of a gimlet or auger. The staple or
eye-piece for receiving the bolt of the lock is fixed in the same way and when the
bolt is shot neither lock nor staple can be turned round to unscrew, and therefore
cannot be removed without breakage. The screw itself being covered when once
fixed is not removable by any ordinary tool, such as a screw-driver. In some cases
I may employ a hinged lock or hasp in which that part of the hinge which is fixed
to the woodwork possesses one single screw as described above for fixing.
Dated this 6th day of April 1893.
A. P. LEDWARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Fixing Locks to Cupboards, Boxes, and
similar Articles.
I, ARCHIBALD PRENTICE LEDWARD of Willow Bank, Whalley Range,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Gentleman 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 relates to an improved method of fixing locks to cupboards boxes
cabinets etc., by means of one strong gimlet-pointed screw of steel or other suitable
metal attached to the back plate of the casing of the lock. This screw is inserted
into the framework or door of the cupboard or other article by turning the body of
the-lock-itself as one-would-the-handle-of-a-gimlet-or-auger. The staple or
eye-piece for receiving the bolt of the lock is fixed in the same way and when the
bolt is shot neither lock nor staple can be turned round to unscrew and therefore
cannot be removed without breakage. The screw itself being covered when once
In some cases
fixed is not removable by any ordinary too! such as a screw-driver.
I may employ a hinged lock or hasp in which that part of the hinge which is fixed
to the woodwork possesses one single screw as described above for fixing.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings I shew three figures in order to illustrate
the nature of my invention although I do not confine myself to the exact form or
proportions shewn. The same letters of reference are used to indicate the same
parts in each view.
s is the single screw above described firmly attached in any convenient manner to
the backplates of the lock and of the staple t.
6 is the bolt, the key-hole and the hinged part of hasp.

page_text: 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
The use or employment of a single screw attached to the backplate of a lock for
fixing it in the manner herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 9th day of January 1894.
A. P. LEDWARD.