Improvements in Sliding and Swivelling Doors and Partitions.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sliding and Swivelling Doors and Partitions.
We, JAMES LUTY of Royal William 4th, Lincoln in the County of Lincoln,
Retired Sea Captain, and WILLIAM WASDEN GLOVER of Brownlow Road,
Horwich near Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Joiner and Builder, do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in sliding and swivelling doors and
partitions and consists in mounting the same on a carriage provided with rollers
disposed on metallic centres. The said carriage is mounted in a suitable fixing,
fixings, or bearings attached to a carrying beam or support. In the carriage is
disposed a centre provided at one end with a fork or clip to receive the upper end
of the door or partition; the latter being secured thereto by screws or other
equivalents. The bottom end of the door or partition is fitted with a fork or clip
provided with a suitable centre and so disposed as to allow of the same operating
in a slot in the floor formed by metallic plates or other materials secured in any
convenient manner.
Dated the 24th April 1893.
EDMUND CHADWICK, F.I.C.P.A.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sliding and Swivelling Doors and Partitions.
We, JAMES LUTY of Royal William 4th, Lincoln in the County of Lincoln,
Retired Sea Captain, and WILLIAM WASDEN GLOVER of Brownlow Road,
Horwich near Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Joiner and Builder, do hereby
declare the nature of our said 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 improvements in sliding and swivelling doors and
partitions and consists in mounting the same on a carriage provided with rollers
disposed on metallic centres. The said carriage is mounted in a suitable fixing,
fixings, or bearings attached to a carrying beam or support. In the carriage is
disposed a centre provided at one end with a fork or clip to receive the upper end
of the door or partition; the latter being secured thereto by screws or other
equivalents. The bottom end of the door or partition is fitted with a fork or clip
provided with a suitable centre and so disposed as to allow of the same operating in
a slot in the floor formed by metallic plates or other materials secured in any
convenient manner.

page_text: The sliding and swivelling doors or partitions A are carried by the carriage B
provided with the rollers C disposed on the centres O. The carriage B is mounted
on the fixings or bearings D attached to the carrying beam or support E by the
screws F. In the centre of the carriage B is disposed the centre G secured to the
fork or clip H, attached to the upper end of the sliding and swivelling door or
partition A by screws or their equivalents. The bottom end of the sliding and
swivelling door or partition A is fitted with the fork or clip I provided with the
ceutre to operate in the slot K; each side of the latter being provided with
the metallic or other plates L secured by the screws M or their equivalents. The
doors or partitions A may be swivelled or turned, after which they may be slid and
placed side by side as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.
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 :-
For sliding and swivelling doors and partitions the combination of the carriage B
fitted with the rollers C mounted on the fixings or bearings D secured to the
carrying beam or support E, the centre G, fork or clip H, and the fork or clip I
provided with the centre J operating in the slot K between the plates L, substantially
as described and as illustrated in the annexed drawings.
Dated 20th January 1894.
EDMUND CHADWICK, F.I.C.P.A.,
Agent.