IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF ATTACHING DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OR HANDERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Heywood, of Sutton Cross Hills, Leeds,
Designer, and Thomas Ogden Dixon, of Steeton, near Keighley, Bobbin'
Manufacturer, both in the County of York, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF ATTACHING DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OR
HANDERS "
Scaled the 2nd December 1856, and dated the 3rd June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Heywood and
Thomas Ogden Dixon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 3rd June 1856.
We, EDWIN HEYWOOD, of Sutton Cross Hills, Leeds, Designer, and THOMAS
OGDEN DIXON, of Steeton, near Keighley, Bobbin Manufacturer, both in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF ATTACHING DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OR
HANDLES," to be as follows:-
Hitherto such knobs of handles have been attached to the drawer, or other
place to which they are applied, by having formed on or affixed to them a
screw or other pin, which is screwed into or otherwise made secure to such
drawer or other place.
And our improvements consist in forming the knob or handle with a female
screw in place of such pin, and forming the piu separate, and so as to be passed
through from the opposite side of the drawer or other place, to that on which

page_text: the knob is to appear, and into the knob by which we obtain a neater and more
secure fixing, requiring only
requiring only a plain hole to be bored through the drawer or
other place to which the knob or handle is to be applied. We form both parts
of wood or similar materials, and we also form that part of the pin which,
when the knob is fixed, is in the hole of the drawer or other place, somewhat
conical or tapering towards the screw.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogden Dixon in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 2nd December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, EDWIN
HEYWOOD, of Sutton Cross Hills, Leeds, Designer, and THOMAS OGDEN DIXON,
of Steeton, near Keighley, Bobbin Manufacturer, both in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reigu,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogden Dixon, Her special licence that we, the
said Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogden Dixon, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edwin Heywood and Thomas
Ogden Dixon, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MEANS OF ATTACHING DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OR HANDLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogden Dixon,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogilen
Dixon, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :—
Hitherto such knobs or handles have been attached to the drawer or other
place to which they are applied, by having formed on or affixed to them a
screw or other pin, which is screwed into or otherwise made secure to such
drawer or other place.
And our improvements consist in forming the knob or handle with a female
screw in place of such pin, and forming the pin separate, and so as to be passed
through from the opposite side of the drawer or other place to that on which
the knob is to appear, and into the knob, by which we obtain a neater and
more secure fixing, requiring only a plain hole to be bored through the drawer
or other place to which the knob or handle is to be applied. We form both
parts of wood or similar materials, and we also form part of the pin which is
within the hole of the drawer or other place (when the knob is fixed) somewhat
conical or tapering towards the screw.
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But that the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner we carry
the same into effect may be fully understood, we will proceed to describe the
Drawing annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a section of a drawer or other place, with a knob or handle
applied thereto according to our improvements; Figure 2 represents a section
of the knob or handle without the stem; and Figure 3 shews the stem sepa-
rately, by which it will be seen that the part a has a female screw formed
therein to receive the male screw, formed on the stem or pin b, which at the
part from 1 to 2 we prefer to be of a conical figure, in order to its more tightly
holding in the hole formed for it in the drawer or other place to which it is to
be attached; and we also form the head 3 to prevent its being drawn through.
In applying such knobs or handles, the part 6 is passed through a suitable
hole formed in the drawer or other place, and the part a is applied by screwing
on to the part 6 from the opposite side, when the part 3 of the part 6 will be
drawn tight up to one surface of the drawer or other place to prevent the stem
being drawn through in the pulling of the part a.
But although we have in the illustration given shewn one of the simplest forms
of knobs or handles, the same may be varied; and when knobs or handles have
to be applied back to back on the opposite faces of a door or other place, the
pin may be prolonged and have a screw at each end to receive suitable knobs
or handles with corresponding female serews therein; or the knob or handle
on one side may have a pin formed with or affixed to it, but which pin would in

page_text: this case be required to be sufficiently long to pass through and project on the
opposite side of the door or other place to receive a knob or handle, having a
female screw of the character explained.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the best means
we are acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, we would have it
understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details shown, so
long as the peculiar character of our Invention be retained; but what we do
claim is, the forming of drawer or other knobs or handles capable of being
attached in manner substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edwin Heywood and Thomas Ogilen
Dixon, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
Witness,
JOHN CRAVEN, J'.
EDWIN HEYWOOD.
(L.S.)
THOMAS OGDEN DIXON. (L.S.)