NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR ATTACHING DOOR HANDLES TO THEIR SPINDLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Cox, of Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR ATTACHING
DOOR HANDLES TO THEIR SPINDLES."
Scaled the 6th November 1874, and dated the 13th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Cox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th May 1874.
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I, FREDERICK Cox, of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS
FOR ATTACHING DOOR HANDLES TO THEIR SPINDLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in making a screw thread upon one end of the
spindle opposite to that end to which one handle is permanently fixed.
Upon the end carrying the screw thread I place a loose nut free to
travel when required along the screw thread in order to be able to
adjust the position I wish to attach the other or opposite handle.

page_text: Between this nut and the fixed handle I place a boss or collar of or
about the same size as the nut, but preferably without a screw thread.
This boss or collar is made in a piece with or connected to a circular
flange carrying on its outer circumference a loose ring with a female
screw.
The handle to be secured is formed with an aperturo to fit the nut
and collar or boss aforesaid on the spindle, and has on its outer rim a
corresponding screw thread to fit the screw thread on the loose ring nut
on circular flange.
To secure the door handle, after the aforesaid boss with flange is
slipped on, the position of the loose nut is first adjusted on the spindle,
the aperture in the door handle is slipped over the nut and boss, and the
screwed ring or collar is then screwed on to the screw on the handle.
By this means the handle is firmly secured to its spindle, its position
thereon being adjusted to the greatest nicety by the nut, which is free
to be screwed along the spindle which serves to jamb or to tighten up
the handle between the door to the extent required.
The arrangement may be somewhat modified by reversing the threads,
thus forming the aforesaid screwed tightening collar with a male thread,
and the parts corresponding thereto with a female thread.
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I prefer to make the handle spindle square, the thread being cut on
its four edges or corners.
In the event of a handle becoming loose it is only necessary in order
to make it again perfectly secure to tighten up the collar nut, which is
milled on the outer edge.
A. rose is placed, as in the ordinary fastenings for door handles,
between the handle proper and the door.
off a
To take off a handle or to readjust it on its spindle it is only
necessary to unscrew the screwed collar nut from the handle when the
handle can be slipped off and another substituted in its place, and the
nut can be tightened up or loosened as the case may be with the greatest
facility..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Cox in the Great Seal Patent Office.on
the 13th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
Cox, of Battersca, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Cox, Her.
special licence that I, the said Frederick Cox, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick Cox, 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 "NEW
OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR ATTACHING DOOR HANDLES TO THEIR SPINDLES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Cox, 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 samo
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Cox, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in making a screw thread upon one end of the
spindle opposite to that end to which one handle is permanently fixed.
Upon the end carrying the screw thread I place a loose nut free. to
travel when required along the screw thread in order to be able to
adjust the position I wish to attach the other or opposite handle.

page_text: Between this nut and the fixed handle I place a boss or collar of or
about the same size as the nut, but preferably without a screw thread.
This boss or collar is made in a piece with or connected to a circular
flange carrying on its outer circumference a loose ring with a female
screw.
The handle to be secured is formed with an aperture to fit the nut
and collar or boss aforesaid on the spindle, and has on its outer rim a
corresponding screw thread to fit the screw thread on the loose ring nut
on circular flange.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings illustrates in sectional
elevation a door handle connected to its spindle according to my
Invention.
a, b, are the door handles. The handle a is a fixture to its spindle,
and is the handle to be attached thereto; c is the spindle, which is
preferably made square, having a screw thread cut on the edge thereof;
d is the loose nut free to travel thereon from end to end of the threaded
portion of the spindle c; e is the square boss or collar corresponding in
size with the movable nut d; f is the circular flange made in a piece
with the square boss e; and g is the loose ring on flange f; h is the
square aperture in the handle b, which latter is to be attached to the
spindle c; k is the male screw on handle.
Figure 2 is a detached view of the square and movable nut d;
Figure 3 is a detached view of the boss e with circular flange f; Figure 4
is a detached view of the movable and loose ring g; and Figure 5 is a.
view of handle 6 showing the square-shaped aperture in same; i, i, are
roses of the ordinary form and kind generally used for such purpose.
To secure the door handle 6 to the spindle c, the spindle being first
passed through aperture in door, as usual with the roses i, i, I first slip
on the square boss e with its flange f, I then adjust the position of the
loose nut d on the spindle c, the aperture in the door handle 6 is
slipped over the nut d and boss e; the screwed ring or collar g, which
has been previously screwed on to the screw k on the handle is then
screwed on to the flange f. By this means the handle is firmly secured
to its spindle, its position thereon being adjusted to the greatest nicety
by the nut d, which is free to be screwed along the spindle c which
serves to jamb or to tighten up the handle between the door to the
extent required.

page_text: The arrangement may be somewhat modified by reversing the threads,
thus forming the aforesaid screwed tightening collar, with a male thread,
and the parts corresponding thereto with a female thread.
The arrangement may be somewhat modified by reversing the threads,
thus forming the aforesaid screwed tightening collar, with a male thread,
and the parts corresponding thereto with a female thread.
I prefer to make the handle spindle square, the thread being cut on
its four edges or corners.
In the event of a handle becoming loose it is only necessary in order
to make it again perfectly secure to tighten up the collar g of the nut e;
the collar g is milled on the outer edge to enable this to be casily done.
To take off a handle or to readjust it on its spindle it is only
necessary to unscrew the screwed collar nut from the handle when tho
handle can be slipped off and another substituted in its place, and the
nut can be tightened up or loosened as the case may be with the greatest
facility.
By my Invention it will be seen that I do not use any small screws or
plugs for preventing the parts turning, and I am enabled to produce
such a fastening according to my Invention as to remove the incon-
veniences heretofore attending the use of screws and such-like devices.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I am aware that
attempts have been made to secure handles to their spindles without the
use of small screws, but this I am not aware has been done without a
substitute for and an equivalent of the small screws aforesaid by the
introduction and use for example of a plug or pin instead, I therefore
lay no claim to simply a device for attaching handles to their spindles
without the use of small screws; but I claim as my new or improved
means for attaching door handles to their spindles,--
First. The employment of a square nut on the spindle, in combination
with and working against a square boss on same spindle, the square
socket of handle fitting over both nut and boss, substantially in manner
and for the purposes described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
Second: The employment of a square nut on the spindle working
against a square boss, on to both of which the square socket of the handle
fits, the said boss being in a piece with or connected to a flange, on to
which is screwed a ring into which the handle of door is also screwed,

page_text: all substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Cox, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.