CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN HANDLES FOR DOORS, DRAWERS, AND OTHER MEANS OF ENCLOSURE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hawthorn, of Burslem, in the County of
Stafford, China Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HANDLES FOR DOORS, DRAWERS, AND OTHER MEANS OF ENCLOSURE."
"
Sealed the 21st August 1868, and dated the 24th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hawthorn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
February 1863.
I, JOHN HAWTHORN, of Burslem, in the County of Stafford, China Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HANDLES FOR DOORS, DRAWERS, AND OTHER MEANS OF ENCLOSURE,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of such handles or knobs for doors,
drawers, and other means of enclosure as are made of china clay, earthenware,
or other argillaceous substances, and is designed for the purpose of combining
a screw therewith in such a manner that it may have a secure hold in the
handle, the projecting part of such screw being the means of attaching the
handle to the door or drawer.
The improvements consist in the employment and use of a metal male screw
fitting into a female screw tapped in the handle or knob, and secured therein
by means of a cement, such as plaster of Paris, such combination forming a more
perfect connection between the metal and earthenware than hitherto attained.
The opposite end of the piece of metal is also screwed, by which means the
handle is secured to the door or drawer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Hawthorn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HAWTHORN, of Burslem, in the County of Stafford, China Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Hawthorn, Her special license that I, the said John Hawthorn,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said
John Hawthorn, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HANDLES FOR DOORS, DRAWERS, AND OTHER MEANS OF ENCLOSURE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Hawthorn, 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 Hawthorn, 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 and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of such bandles or knobs for doors,
drawers, &c., as are made of china clay, earthenware, or other argillaceous
substances, and is designed for the purpose of combining a screw there-
with in such a manner that it may have a secure hold in the handle, the
projecting part of such screw being the means of attaching the handle to the
door or drawer.
The improvements consist in the employment and use of a metal male
screw, fitting into a female screw tapped in the handle or knob, and so
secured therein, such combination forming a more perfect connection between

page_text: the metal and earthenware than hitherto attained. The opposite end of the
piece of metal is also screwed, by which means the handle is secured to the
door or drawer.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in detail,
I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings made about full size, letters of
reference being marked thereupon.
Fig. 1 representing a sectional view of the knob, with the male metal screw
screwed into the female screw formed in the china or earthenware composing
the handle or knob; and Fig. 2 shews the double metallic screw which is
screwed at one end into the china and at the other into the wood of the door
or drawer.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the earthenware or china knob or handle in which the
female screw is formed, and 6 the double metallic screw, c being the portion
screwed into the china, and d the portion projecting which is to be screwed into
the wood to attach the handle to a door or drawer.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the employment and use of a metal male screw fitting
into a female screw in the china or earthenware handle, and combined with
another screw at the opposite end, whereby the handle may be attached to a
door or other means of enclosure as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hawthorn, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JOHN HAWTHORN. (L.S.)