IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OP HANDLES AND FASTENINGS FOR DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Draper, of Lenton, near Nottingham, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OP HANDLES AND
FASTENINGS FOR DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 12th February 1858, and dated the 14th August 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Draper at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th August 1857.
I, SAMUEL DRAPER, of Lenton, near Nottingham, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES
AND FASTENINGS FOR DOORS OF RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
handles and fastenings for doors of railway and other carriages. For these
purposes the stem or spindle of a handle is made of cylindrical rod iron, of
the same diameter from end to end; the two ends of the spindle or stem are
tapped with male screw threads; on this spindle or stem the tongue or
fastening button is fixed. The tongue or fastening button is formed in three
parts, the main part being in the middle, and has, at the end where it is fixed
to the spindle or stem, two plates, one on each side of the middle or main
piece. The friction roller is placed between these two outer plates, and one

page_text: angle of the main piece is removed to admit of the friction roller being so
placed; the spindle or stem is partly fixed to the tongue by one part of the
screw formed at that end. The handle is formed by having a bar of iron
screwed or fixed on to the end of the spindle or stem, and over this is placed
a hollow shell of sheet brass or other suitable metal, into which is screwed
the end of a tube of brass or other suitable metal, the screw at the end of
such tube and that in the shell being cut or formed in the opposite direction to
that on the end of the stem or spindle. The parts above mentioned being put
and held together are then further secured by running fluid metal (by pre-
ference inferior brass) through a hole in the tongue by which the case of the
cross bar or handle, also the hollow casing of the stem and the hole or holes
through the tongue, will be filled with the metal, and at the same time all
parts will be thereby held more securely together. When the tongue or
fastening button is to work within a lock or case (let into the door), then, in
place of fixing the tongue or fastening button to the stem or spindle as above
explained, there are two side rods or feathers fixed into the handle and the
main stem or spindle by means of the runuing in of the fluid metal; these
rods and the spindle pass through the tongne or fastening button, which is
placed in the case or lock; and to facilitate the use of a friction roller to
such tongues or fastening buttons part of the side of the case or lock is cut
away or removed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Draper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th February 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
DRAPER, of Lenton, Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Draper, Her special license that I, the said Samuel Draper,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Draper, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

page_text: the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES AND FASTENINGS FOR DOORS OF RAILWAY ATD OTHER
CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Draper, 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 same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Draper, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
handles and fastenings for doors of railway and other carriages." Figure 1 is
a section of handle and plate. Figure 2 is an elevation of handle drawn
partly out of the plate J. Figure 3 is a transverse section of handles.
Figure 4 is a side view of the cross bar G. The same letters refer to all the
Figures. For these purposes the stem or spindle H of a handle is made
of a cylindrical rod iron, either the same diameter from end to end, or it may
be flattened on two sides as far as the bottom of the tongue or fastening
button B. On this spindle H the tongue or fastening button B is placed.
The tongue or fastening button B is formed in three parts; the main part B
is fixed in the middle, and has at the end where it is fixed to the spindle H
two plates C, C, one on each side of the main piece B. Each of these
plates C, C, has a projection at one corner to carry the friction roller D
far enough out, so as not to weaken the shaft H or fastening button B
by cutting them away to admit of the friction roller D being so placed as to
bring it into the most effectual service for fastening the doors, &c. The
friction roller D is placed between the two plates C, C, and one angle of the
main piece B is removed to admit of the friction roller D being so placed.
The spindle H is fixed to the fastening button B either by being screwed
down, or if the flattened shaft or spindle H is used, by having a hole made in
the fastening button B to fit it. The handle is formed by having a bar of
iron G screwed or fixed on to the end of the spindle H, and over this is
placed a hollow shell of sheet brass or other suitable metal F, into which is
screwed the end of a tube E of brass or other suitable metal, the screw at the
end of such tube E being cut or formed in the opposite direction to that cut
or formed on the end of the spindle II; the top end of the tube E is cut away

page_text: in such a manner that those parts which remain shall project through the
holes formed in the cross bar G (shown at Figure 4). The parts above
mentioned being put and held together, the pin I is placed through the
tube E, and the stem or spindle H are further secured by running fluid metal
(suitable for brazing or fastening) through a hole in the tongue or fastening
button B, by which every part of the handle will be filled up, as will also the
hole in the tongue B, &c., and all the parts will be held securely together.
The spring A is formed in the manner or shape shown in Figure 1 to suit the
projection of the friction roller. When the tongue or fastening button B is
to work within a lock or case let into the door), where it is not convenient to
fasten the tongue or fastening button to the stem or spindle as above explained,
I prefer a flat spindle, where it passes through the hole, as shewn in Figure
5, of the tongue or fastening button, which may be made by two side rods,
fastening them and the spindle together by the running in of the fluid metal
as before named; or if they are made in the ordinary way by the handle being
cast in solid brass, &c., so that the flat part of the spindle may effectually
move the tongue or fastening button with its projected roller. The tongue or
fastening button with its projection.to hold the friction roller can be made in
one piece at a greater expence.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Draper, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
SAMUEL DRAPER. (L.S.)