Attaching Handles to the Doors of Railway Carriages, Coaches, Broughams, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1887
Complete Left, 27th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th Apr., 1888
Attaching Handles to the Doors of Railway Carriages, Coaches,
Broughams, and other Vehicles.
We SAMUEL WILKES and JONAH WILKES of Excelsior Works 44 The Green,
Bloxwich in the County of Stafford, Carriage Lock Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
:-
In our method of "Attaching Handles to the doors of Railway carriages, Coaches,
Broughams and other Vehicles
we employ a tube or socket, having a Hange on the
front for the reception of two or more screws.
Into this tube or socket we insert the
spindle upon which the handle is cast, and pass a washer, with a square hole therein,
upon the spindle up to the end of the socket, and secure it to the spindle by drilling
a hole through both and inserting a pin therein.
A hole the size of the tube or socket is then bored in the door-upon which a lock
is fixed and the spindle inserted therein. and by passing screws through the flange
into the door the handle is securely attached thereto.
The object of our invention is, first, that of dispensing with screw nuts, which
are usually employed on the ends of the spindles inside the carriages in order to
retain them in position, and second, to afford a greater bearing and rigidity to the
handles which so frequently become loose and shakey by use.
071
1000
W. H. ST. AUBIN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Attaching Handles to the Doors of Railway Carriages, Coaches,
Broughams, and other Vehicles.
We SAMUEL WILKES and JONAH WILKES of Excelsior Works 44 The Green
Bloxwich in the County of Stafford Carriage Lock Manufacturers do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In our method of attaching handles to the doors of Railway Carriages, Coaches'
Broughams and other vehicles we employ a tube or socket--A-Fig. 1-having a
flange or lugs on the front for the reception of two or more screws. Into this tube
or socket we insert the spindle, B, upon which the handle is cast, and pass a
washer C-Fig. 4-with a square hole therein, upon the spindle up to the end of
the socket-A-and secure it to the spindle by drilling a hole-D-through both
and inserting a pin therein.
A hole the size of the tube or socket is then bored in the door upon which a
lock is fixed, and the spindle inserted therein, and by passing screws through the
flange or lugs into the door the handle is securely attached thereto.
Upon reference to the annexed drawings it will be seen that the object of our
invention is first, that of dispensing with screw nuts, which are usually employed
on the ends of the spindles inside the carriages in order to retain them in position,
and, second, to afford a greater bearing and rigidity to the handle which so frequently
become loose and shakey by use.
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.
wo claim is
1-That of dispensing with screw nuts in fixing handles upon doors of carriages,
by passing the spindle of the handle through a socket, and securing a washer to the
spindle at the back of same, substantially as herein described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
2-Attaching handles to the doors of carriages by means of screws passed through
the flange or lugs of the socket into the door, substantially as herein described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.