Improvements in Attaching Door and other Knobs to Spindles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Door and other Knobs to Spindles.
We, EDWARD VERNON BAILEY and CHARLES MACKEY, trading as Bailey
and Mackey, of Great Hampton Row, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to means for the securing of door and other knobs to their
spindles, and particularly to the door furnitures known in commerce as "Mace's'
and "Duce's," that is, in the former (Mace's) kind of furniture, the keep screw
which is made to take laterally through the knob and take into the groove of
the grooved spindle is headed over and prevented from rising by turning the
unpierced part of a sleeve carried by the rose over the head of the keep screw.
In Duce's furniture, the knob which is a screwed one, takes upon a screwed spindle
with grooves longitudinally formed within the flats thereof.
Our invention has for one of its objects, increasing the rigidity of the connected
parts, hence the prevention of rocking, and a further object is the taking of all
strain on the turning of the handle from off the screw of the spindle and from off
the keep screw.
In carrying out one form of our invention in connection with mace furniture, we
take a square spindle screwed upon its angles, and with two or each of the flats
provided with longitudinally directed grooves.
Taking upon the screwed spindle is a traversing nut collar, which forms the set
or abutment for the foot of the knob, on the same being screwed home. Threaded
upon the end of the spindle up to the said collar is a square-eyed and domed spring
washer, against which the foot of a knob having a tubular neck, comes.
The said neck takes and revolves within the pierced sleeve or bush of the rose,
whilst the said neck is also laterally wormed to receive the keep screw.
In use, pass the spindle in the ordinary way through the follower of the lock,
and then traverse the nut collar up the spindle to the exact distance to which the
knob is required to be fixed upon the said spindle relative to the door. Then slip
on the spring washer and follow this by the combined rose and sleeve and then
screw on the knob and traverse the same up until the foot reaches the washer,
when the said washer becomes compressed or flattened hence the yielding stop,
which keeps the knob rigid in any position within a half or quarter turn for the
bringing the wormed hole through its neck coincident with either of the grooves in
the flats of the spindle. This done bring the piercing in the sleeve coincident with
the wormed hole in the neck and then pass the keep screw home and when home,
then partly rotate the rose so as to bring the piercing in its sleeve non-coincident
with the head in the screw and when in this position, fix the rose to the door by
small screws.
In carrying out a further form of our invention, in connection with Mace
furniture, we step the nut collar, so that the entrance to the rose can turn upon
the step as a centre, whilst we make the inside diameter in the sleeve greater
than the hole in the rose. Taking upon the spindle and located forward of the rose
is a square-eyed washer, against which the foot or pummel of the knob takes when
screwed home.
In carrying out a third form of our invention in connection with Duce furniture,
we simply take a screwed spindle provided with a traversing nut collar having at
the front of it, or at the side nearest the loose end of the spindle a domed and thin
sheet metal spring washer and upon the end of the spindle we screw an ordinary

page_text: knob which is screwed up to the nut collar with the washer intervening between
the opposed faces of the nut and foot of knob.
It is understood that by employing the spring washer, which may be of any
yielding organization, a dead screwing up, within certain limits, is prevented, and
rigidity is secured alike when not fully screwed up as when screwed up, and further,
the collar nut may, if necessary, be made to act as both washer and nut if the edges
of the same be split so as to slightly yield or give.
The knob is secured by a fixing screw as in the ordinary way.
In a still further form of our invention, we lock the nut collar by means of a
washer, having two or more gaps or holes within its face or near its periphery, one
of which engages with a stud on the opposed face of the collar.
The said washer may be flat or of a spring construction, whilst the eye is squared
so that the same can take upon the spindle in eight positions.
Thus, assuming that the collar is screwed up to the door and that when the
knob is screwed up to the washer the wormed hole through the neck of the latter
does not come coincident with a groove in one of the faces in the spindle to an
extent about equal to one-eighth of a turn, then the washer has only to be removed,
and the collar turned more or less until the stud of it comes coincident with one of
the gaps of the washer, when on the knob being screwed fully home, its wormed
hole then comes coincident with the groove into which the keep screw takes.
Dated this 29th day of January 1894.
EDWARD VERNON BAILEY,
CHARLES MACKEY,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Door and other Knobs to Spindles.
We, EDWARD VERNON BAILEY and CHARLES MACKEY, trading as Bailey
and Mackey, of Great Hampton Row, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers,
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
otatement :-
This invention relates to means for the securing of door and other knobs to
their spindles.
Our invention has for one of its objects, increasing the rigidity of the connected
parts, hence the prevention of rocking, and a further object is a yielding bearing,
for taking all strain, on the turning of the handle, from off the screw of the spindle
and from off the keep screw.
In carrying out our invention in connection with one form of door furniture, we
take a square spindle, screwed upon its angles, and with two of the flats, or each
of the flats, provided with longitudinally directed channels.
Taking upon the screwed spindle is a traversing nut or set-collar, which forms
the set or abutment for the foot of the knob on the same being screwed home.
Threaded upon the end of the spindle, up to the said collar, is a square-eyed
and domed spring washer, against which the foot of a knob, having a tubular
Deck, comes.
The said neck takes and revolves within the pierced sleeve or bush of the rose,
whilst the said neck is also laterally wormed to receive the keep-screw.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, partly in section, and partly
in elevation, a pair of knobs, the right hand and adjustable one of which is shown
mounted upon its spindle in accordance with this form of our invention.
Figure 2 represents a cross section of the same upon the dotted lines A
Figure 1.
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page_text: Figure 3 represents a like section but upon the dotted lines X Figure 1, whilst.
Figure 4 represents a cross section of the said Figure 1, but upon the lines B.
Figure 5 represents the component parts of the adjustable knob and the spindle.
separated.
Figure 6 represents a front elevation of a square-eyed and domed washer, which
is slipped over the spindle, and is located between a traversing nut-collar and the
foot of the knob, and by it, the knob is made to have a yielding bearing, and
adjustments can be made at points between the faces of the spindle or the channels.
sunk up their middles.
Figure 7 represents a front elevation of the traversing nut-collar.
In Figures 1 to 7, a is a square and screwed spindle, having a fixed or fast
knob b, at one end, and a loose and adjustable knob c, at the other and wormed end.
The said knob e, has an inside wormed neck c', taking upon the wormed end a¹, of
the spindle a, and which said neck c', through which the keep screw d, passes, is
covered up by a sleeve e¹, of a rose e, whilst threaded upon the screwed end of the
said spindle, is a traversing nut or set-collar f, with a square-eyed and domed
washer 9, coming between it and the foot c³, of the neck c'.
In fitting the knobs and spindle to a door, pass the spindle part (which has a
fixed knob b, at one end) in the ordinary way through the follower of the lock,.
and then traverse the nut-collar f, up the spindle to the exact distance to which.
the knob c, is required to be fixed upon the said spindle a, relative to the door.
Then slip on the spring washer g, and follow this by the combined rose and
sleeve e, e', and then screw on the knob a, and traverse the same up until the foot c³,
reaches the washer, when the said washer becomes slightly compressed or flattened,
hence the yielding stop, which keeps the knob rigid in any position, within a half
or quarter turn for bringing the wormed hole c³, through its neck c¹, coincident
with either of the channels or grooves a², in the flats of the spindles. This done
bring the piercing e³, in the sleeve e, coincident with the wormed hole c³, in the
neck, and then pass the keep screw d, (see Figure 2) home, and when home partly
rotate the rose e, e¹, so as to bring the hole or piercing e, in its sleeve from in front.
of the head of the keep-screw and when in this position, fix the rose to the door by
small screws passed through holes es, in the ordinary way.
In carrying out another form of our invention, in connection with the same type
of furniture we step the nut-collar, so that the entrance to the rose can turn upon
the step as a centre, whilst we make the inside diameter in the sleeve greater than
the hole in the rose. Taking upon the spindle and located forward of the rose is
a square-eyed washer, against which the foot or pummel of the knob takes when.
screwed home.
Figure 8 represents a knob secured to its spindle by the means last described.
a. is a spindle, c is a loose knob, e is the rose, with the entrance, to the-
sleeve es, taking upon the stepped traversing nut collar f, and with the said
entrance e, of less diameter than the inside bore of the said sleeve e³, which comes.
upon the inside screwed neck c', and has between its foot c³, and the opposed
side of the traversing nut-collar f, a square-eyed and interposed plain or spring.
washer g.
In carrying out our invention in connection with another form of door furniture,.
we simply take a screwed spindle a, (see Figure 9) provided with a traversing nut-
collar, having at the front of it a domed and thin sheet metal spring washer 9,.
and upon the end of the spindle, we screw an ordinary knob c, which is screwed up.
to the nut-collar, with the washer intervening between the opposed faces of the nut
and foot of knob.
It is understood that by employing the spring washer, which may be of any
yielding character, a dead screwing up, within certain limits, is prevented, and
rigidity is secured, both when the knob is only partially screwed up, and when the
same is screwed fully home, and further, the collar nut may, if necessary, be made
to act as both washer and nut, if the edges of the same be split so as to slightly
yield or give.

page_text: The knob is secured by a fixing screw as in the ordinary way.
In a still further form of our invention, we lock the nut collar by means of a
washer, having two or more gaps or holes within its face or near its periphery, one
of which engages with a stud on the opposed face of the collar.
The said washer may be flat or of a spring construction, whilst the eye is
squared, so that the same can take upon the spindle in eight positions.
Figure 10 represents a knob secured to its spindle by this last described means.
Figure 11 represents a transverse section of the same, upon the dotted lines x-x
Figure 10.
Fi
Figure 12 represents a front and side elevation of the traversing nut, and
Figure 13 represents an edge view and front elevation of the washer.
a is the spindle and c is a screwed knob, secured in position by a keep screw,
as is common. f is a traversing screw nut or collar, having upon its outer face,
or that part presented to the knob, a stud, which engages with one or other
of the gaps 9, 93, cut out of the periphery of the plain or spring washer
whose middle is pierced with a cross squared hole 93, thereby allowing the said
washer to be adjusted upon the spindle to one eighth of a turn.
Assuming that the collar f, is screwed up to the door, and that when the knob is
screwed up to the washer, the wormed hole through the neck of the latter does not
come coincident with a groove in one of the faces in the spindle to an extent
about equal to one-eighth of a turn, then the washer g, has only to be removed,
and the collar f, turned more or less until the stud f¹, of it comes coincident
with one of the gaps 91, 93, of the washer, when on the knob being screwed fully
home, its wormed hole then comes coincident with the groove into which the keep
screw takes.
Having now particularly.described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. In securing door and other knobs to their spindles, employing interposed
between the foot of the knob and the opposed face of a traversing nut or set-
collar, a square-eyed spring washer or a domed and square-eyed washer, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described and set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
and 9.
Secondly. In securing door and other knobs to their spindles, employing interposed
between the foot of the knob and the opposed face of a traversing nut or set-collar,
a square-eyed plain washer, substantially as and for the purpose as described and
set forth in Figure 8.
Thirdly. In means for securing door and other knobs to their spindles, and
locking the same in adjusted positions, the general construction, arrangement and
combination of the parts, substantially as and for the purpose as described and set
forth in Figures 1 to 9.
Fourthly. Securing and locking door and other knobs to their spindles, by a
stud upon a traversing set-nut taking into a gap, or one of two gaps, of a washer,
whose middle is pierced with a squared hole, or a cross squared hole, substantially
as described and set forth in Figures 10 to 13.
Fifthly. In means for securing and locking door and other knobs to their
spindles, the general construction, arrangement and combination of the parts,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth in Figures 10 to 13.
Deted thie 19th day of June 1894.
EDWARD VERNON BAILEY,
CHARLES MACKEY,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.