Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 10th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Feb., 1887.
1 JOSEPH WILLIAMS ROE, of 5 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Publisher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows -
Mats placed at the outside of office or other doors are frequently stolen and the object
of my invention is to provide means of securing them.
For this purpose I attach a bar, strip or lath of metal or wood by screws and nuts,
rivets or other like contrivances to that edge of the mat which is to lie against the door,
the said bar, strip or lath being of such length that it will project about half an inch
more or less beyond the ends of the mat; and I form in or at each side of the doorway
just above the Hoor a recess to receive the corresponding projecting end of the bar,
strip or lath, such recess extending to the inside but not to the outside of the doorway.
When the ends of the bar or lath are slipped into these recesses and the mat lies against
the outside of the door it is impossible for the mat to be removed from the outside.
The recesses at the sides of the doorway may be made by simply cutting them in the
woodwork of the door frame; and the recesses thus formed may be lined or faced with
metal. But the manner in which I prefer to carry out the invention is as follows —
I screw to each side of the frame in which the door fits a metal plate which is undercut
to form the recess for the end of the bar, and I have an inward prolongation of this
plate in the form of a pliable strip of metal, such as hoop iron, which can be bent to
adapt it to the contour of the door frame to which it is then screwed.
The bar or strip which is attached to the mat is preferably made to project an inch
more or less beyond the side of the mat so as to extend under the door when this is
closed.
By means of my invention I not only prevent the fraudulent removal of the mat but
I also hold the mat against the door so that it forms an effective dust and draught
excluder.
J. C. MEWBURN,
169, Fleet Street, London,
Agent.

page_text: I JOSEPH WILLIAMS ROE of 15 (formerly of 5) Wine Office Court, Fleet Street in
the City of London, Publisher do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Mats placed at the outside of office or other doors are frequently stolen and the
object of my invention is to provide means of securing them.
For this purpose I attach a bar, strip or lath of metal or wood by screws and nuts,
rivets or other like contrivances to that edge of the mat which is to lie against the door,
the said bar, strip or lath being of such length that it will project about half an inch
more or less beyond the ends of the mat, and 1 form in or at each side of the door-way
just above the Hoor a recess to receive the corresponding projecting end of the bar,
strip or lath, such recess extending to the inside but not to the outside of the door-way.
When the ends of the bar or lath are slipped into these recesses and the mat lies
against the outside of the door it is impossible for the mat to be removed from the
outside.
The recesses at the sides of the door-way may be made by simply cutting them in
the woodwork of the door frame; and the recesses thus formed may be lined or faced
with metal. But the manner in which I prefer to carry out the invention is as follows:-
I screw to each side of the frame in which the door fits a metal plate which is undercut
to form the recess for the end of the bar and I have an inward prolongation of this
plate in the form of a pliable strip of metal, such as hoop iron, which can be bent to
adapt it to the contour of the door frame to which it is then screwed.
The bar or strip which is attached to the mat is preferably made to project half an
inch more or less beyond the side of the mat so as to extend under the door when this
is closed.
The annexed drawings will serve to illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is a side view
of a mat with a bar, strip or lath of metal secured thereto by rivets. Figure 2 is a
plan view showing the mat secured in place the door frame or jambs being in section.
Figure 3 is a side view on a larger scale of one of the jambs with the mat in place and
Figure 4 a similar view without the mat. Figures 5, 6 and 7 are separate views of the
metal plate and the pliable strip of metal which forms a prolongation thereof.
the mat and the bar, strip or lath of metal secured thereto; this bar projects as shown
about half an inch beyond the ends of the mat and it also projects beyond the side of
the mat (see Figure 2) so as to extend under the door. e are the door jambs, d the
a is

page_text: door and e the floor. are metal plates or castings screwed to the jambs c and
undercut as seen at y Figure 4. hh, are inward prolongations of the plates in the
form of pliable strips of metal which after being bent to the contour of the jambs as
seen in Figure 2 are screwed thereto. These strips lie at their outer ends in
recesses in the back of the plates and are formed with holes corresponding in position
with the screw holes in the plates so that the screws pass through both the plate and
the metal strip h.
By means of my invention 1 not only prevent the fraudulent removal of the mat hut
I also hold the mat against the door so that it forms an effective dust and draught
excluder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
The means substantially as hereinbefore described of securing door mats.