IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINDLES FOR LOCKS, LATCHES, AND OTHER FASTENINGS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Gulliver, of Barnsley, in the County of
York, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINDLES
FOR LOCKS, LATCHES, AND OTHER FASTENINGS."
Scaled the 20th May 1873, and dated the 28th December 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Gulliver at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th December 1872.
I, GEORGE GULLIVER, of Barnsley, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN SPINDLES FOR LOCKS, LATCHES, AND OTHER FASTENINGS," to be as follows,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in an improved spindle for locks, latches, and
other fastenings. These improvements are specially applicable to
spindles having their knobs or handles secured thereto in the manner
described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me, and dated
the Sixth day of July 1871, No. 1768, but are also applicable to spindles
having their knobs secured thereto by other methods.

page_text: To carry out my Invention, instead of making the spindle of a square
form in section as has hitherto been done, I form the spindle with grooves
on two or on all its four sides, preserving the four angles of the square
for fitting into the holes in the knob and in the lock.
I can also make the spindles of a triangular form, the sides being
grooved or not as required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters. Patent
filed by the said George Gulliver in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GULLIVER, of Barnsley, in the County of York, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Gulliver, Her special licence that
I, the said George Gulliver, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Gulliver, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 SPINDLES FOR LOCks,
LATCHES, AND OTHER FASTENINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George Gulliver, my executors or administrators, by an in-
strument 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Gulliver, 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 Drawing hereto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thercon, that is to
say:
My Invention consists in an improved spindle for locks, latches, and
other fastenings, but is specially applicable to spindles having their knobs
or handles secured thereto in the manner described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to me, and dated the Sixth day of July, Onc
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, No. 1768, and is also applicable
to spindles having their knobs secured thereto by other methods.
To carry out my Invention instead of making the spindle of a square
form in section, as has hitherto been done, I form the spindle with
grooves on two of or on all its four sides, preserving the four angles of
the square for fitting into the hole in the knob and in the lock,
I can also make the spindles of a triangular form, the sides being
grooved or not as required.
By these improvements I effect a great economy of iron in the manu-
facture of spindles, at the same time preserving the required strength.
To make my Invention better understood, I will now describe the
same by reference to the accompanying Drawing, which shews various
views of spindles made according to my Invention.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 an end view, Figure 3 a plan,
and Figure 4 a transverse section of a spindle grooved or hollowed out
on two of its sides at a, a¹, the other two sides being left plain. The
slots b, b, in the ends of the spindle are for receiving the ends of wedges
for fixing the knobs as described in the Specification of my said Letters
Patent, No. 1768, dated Sixth July, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.
Figure 5 is an elevation, Figure 6 end view, Figure 7 a plan, and
Figure 8 a cross section of a spindle grooved or hollowed out on all four
sides a, a¹, a², a³, and provided with a slot 6 at each end as in the last
described spindle. The said spindles may also be formed without the
slots b, and be provided with holes (for receiving the ends of screws) or
otherwise, to suit the method to be employed for fixing the knobs on the
said spindles.

page_text: Figure 9 is an elevation, Figure 10 an end view, Figure 11 a plan, and
Figure 12 a section shewing a spindle of a triangular form in cross
section.
Figuro 13 is an elevation, Figure 14 an end view, and Figure 15 a
plan of a triangular form of spindle grooved or hollowed out on its three t
sides c, d, c.
In employing my improved triangular spindles it will be understood
that the holes in the knobs to be used with such spindles must be of a
corresponding triangular form so far as regards the three angles, and the
knobs may be attached to the spindles by any suitable known method. 1
Spindles of a round or other shape in cross section other than those
herein-before described may also be made with grooves according to my
Invention.
If found desirable my improved spindles (except those of a triangular
form in section) may be formed in two parts screwed or rivetted
together.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, what I claim is,—
Firstly. Making spindles for locks, latches, and other fastenings with
grooves on two or more sides of such spindles, either solid or in parts,
whereby I effect an economy of metal, as herein-before described.
Secondly. Making spindles of a triangular form in cross section, and
grooved or not on the sides, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Gulliver, havo hereunto
set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of June, in the year of:
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness to signature,
TIMOTHY B. HUNTER.
GEORGE GULLIVER. (L.S.)