Year: 1896

page_text: HENRY ASKEW Colliery Manager Stubbin Rawmarsh Rotherham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of fastening and adjusting door
knobs which is simple and effective and which prevents such door knobs from
working loose.
To secure these advantages I construct a spindle of iron or other suitable
material square in section except at one end, and at the square section end I attach
a door knob firmly by a pin revit or screw. I taper the spindle down on all
four sides where it fits into the neck suitably tapered of the other knob, and
continue it round in section to the end where I form a screwthread which engage
with a nut of brass or other suitable matearial passed through the end of the knob
thus securely fastening it to the spindle.
The knobs may be of brass wood china or other suitable matearial, and the spindle
may have another hole in it close behind and at right angles to the one for the pin
revit or screw aforementioned which will allow the knob to be adjusted when such
adjustment is required.
Dated this 4th day of June 1896
I, HENRY ASKEW, of Stubbin, Rawmarsh, near Rotherham, in the County of
York, Colliery Manager, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved method of fastening and adjusting door
knobs which is simple and effective, and which prevents such door knobs from
working loose.
To secure these advantages I construct a spindle of iron or other suitable material,
square in section except at one end, and at the square section end I attach a door
knob firmly by a pin, rivet, or screw. I taper the spindle down on all four sides,
where it fits into the neck, suitably tapered, of the other knob, and continue it
round in section to the end, where I form a screw thread which engages with a nut
of brass or other suitable material passed through the end of the knob thus securely
fastening it to the spindle.
The knobs may be of brass, wood, china, or other suitable material, and the spindle
may have another hole in it close behind and at right angles to the one for the pin,
rivet or screw aforementioned, which will allow the knob to be adjusted when such
adjustment is required.

page_text: In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I append a sheet of
drawinge, in which:
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a spindle and two. knobs in position.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the centre of the knobs.
Figs. 3 and 4 are plan and elevation of key, used for securing the loose knob.
In Figs. 1 and 2 A represents a portion of the door or other lock furniture, to
which the handle is to be fitted, B, B' are the knobs or handles; B being the fast
one, and B' the loose. The pin, screw or rivet for securing the fast knob to the
spindle S is shewn at b, the spindle at this end being perforated in two or more
places b' to allow of adjustment of the knobs to doors of various thicknesses, or of
tightening up the roses R in case of wear or shrinkage of the door.
The other end of the spindle S is made with a square tapered neck T which fits
into the bore of the loose knob. B¹ and holds the two together. The end of this
spindle being forged round is screwed at c to receive the nut C which secures the
knob firmly to the spindle. The nut C is made with a round neck which fits
into the outer end of the knob B', and thus ensures rigidity of the handles and
spindle. Two small holes d are drilled into the outer end of the nut C at a suitable
distance apart for the purpose of screwing it up by means of the metal key D.
(Figs. 3 and 4) which is provided with two points d' of suitable size to fit into the
boles d. The handles or knobs can thus be adjusted by the most unskilled person
without fear of damaging either knob or spindle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The method of adjustably attaching and fastening door knobs to their spindles,
substantially as shewn and described in the accompanying drawings.
2. The two door knobs adjustably attached to a spindle, substantially as shewn
and described.
3. A spindle for door knobs, in one end of which a number of transverse holes
are formed for the insertion of a pin, by which one knob is fastened to it; and
the other end of which is angular and tapered to fit a corresponding hole in the
other knob, which is fastened to the spindle by a metallic nut, substantially as
shewn and described.
4. In lock furniture; the combination of two knobs B and B', a spindle S having
transverse holes 61 in oue end, and a square polygonal tapered part T, terminating
in a screwed end c,, the pin b, and the nut C, substantially as shewn and described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of December 1896
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
75 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.