Improvements in Fastenings for Doors, Cupboards, and the Lids of Desks, Boxes, and such like Articles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 13th Nov., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Doors, Cupboards, and the Lids of
Desks, Boxes, and such like Articles.
We, JOHN VINCE LONG, of Salamanca House, Downham Market, in the County of
Norfolk, and WHITMORE BAKER of "The Châlet," Downham Market in the County
of Norfolk, Builders do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in fastenings for doors, cupboards, and the
lids of desks, boxes, and such like articles and has for its object to simplify the usual
construction of such fastenings.
For this purpose instead of using the ordinary sliding spring bolt or catch operated
by handles or otherwise we provide a stout piece of brass, iron, or other wire or light
metal bar and bend its two ends at right angles to its middle portion which ends we
fix into the meeting edge of a door, or in the case of a desk or box, to the underneath
surface of the lid or cover, thus forming a kind of loop or staple standing outwards a
little from the edge of the door or from the surface of the lid. Upon the frame or
jamb of the doorway we fit a metal tube or cylinder mounted so as to revolve upon a
rod or axis fixed to the frame in a recessed portion thereof, and provided on its
exterior with an india-rubber or gutta-percha tube fitting tightly thereon and forming
a cover to the said tube or cylinder. This tube or cylinder is carried vertically within
the recess in the frame and opposite to and parallel with the bent wire or loop
attached to the edge of the door, thus when the door is jambed to or shut the loop
is forced against the india-rubber cover of the tube causing the latter to revolve and
permitting the loop to pass beyond the centre line or point of greatest diameter of
the said india-rubber cover, by which means the door is securely fastened and, cannot
be pulled or pushed open again without some considerable force. Instead of the
india-rubber tube several india-rubber rings may be placed in position on the cylinder
to act as the frictional or holding surface thereof.
The loop or staple may be fixed at right angles or inclined to the surface of the
door or lid as circumstances require and it is evident our improved device may be
fitted to ordinary door or mortice locks thus dispensing with the usual spring bolt or
catch and its operating parts. In applying it to desks, boxes, or other similar articles
the resilient frictional roller or cylinder is fitted so as to lie horizontally in a recess
formed in the upper edge of the front of the same.
As our improvements are capable of some slight modification with departing from
the principle of our invention we do not restrict ourselves to the precise form or
placement of the parts thereof.
1011
November 1896
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Doors, Cupboards, and the Lids of
Desks, Boxes, and such like Articles.
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We, JOHN VINCE LONG of Salamanca House, Downham, Market in the County of
Norfolk Builder and WHITMORE BAKER of The Chalet, Downham Market Norfolk
Builder 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 improvements in fastenings for doors, cupboards and the
lids of desks, boxes and such like articles and has for its object to simplify the usual
constrution of such fastenings.
"
For this purpose instead of using the ordinary sliding spring bolt or catch operated
by handles or otherwise we provide a stout piece of brass, iron or other wire or metal
bar and bend its two ends so as to form a kind of loop or staple extending outwards
a short distance from the edge of the door, or the jamb of the door, or from the lid or
the body of a box or desk, the bent ends being fixed to the door or jamb or lid or body
of the box or desk. .
Upon the jamb of the, doorway, or upon the door, and the body or.lid of a box, or
desk, as the case may be, we fit a short metal tube mounted so as to revolve upon a
rod or axis fixed to the said jamb door body or lid in a recessed portion of the same,
and provided on its exterior with an india-rubber or gutta-percha tube fitting tightly
thereon and forming a cover to the said metal tube. This tube is carried vertically
within the recess in the jainb of the doorway, or in the door, or in the case of a box
or desk in a horizontal position opposite to and. parallel with the loop or staple, thus
when the said door or lid is jam bed to or shut the loop or staple when fixed thereto
is forced against the said cover on the tube causing the latter to revolve and permitting
the loop or staple to pass beyond the centre line or point of greatest diameter thereof,
by which means the door or lid is tightly fastened and cannot be pushed or pulled
open again without considerable force. Instead of the said tube or cover, india-rubber
rings may be placed in position on the metal tube to act as the frictional or holding
surface.
The loop or staple may be fixed at right angles or inclined to the surface of the
door jamb of the box or desk as circumstances require, and the device may also be
fitted to ordinary or mortice locks, or in combination with other kinds of locks.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawing Eig. 1 is an elevation, partly in
section, of the inside of a door and jamb fitted with my improved device and Fig. 2 is
a sectional plan thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar. view to Fig. 1 shewing the device in
combination with an ordinary door lock, Fig. 4 being a front edge view of the lock
and Fig. 5 the locking plate fixed to the jamb. Fig. 6 is a vertical section shewing
the application of rings in place of the india-rubber tube and Fig. 7 is an elevation of
the same from the front edge of the door Figs. 8. 9 and 10 are elevations shewing the
device attached to a mortice lock, and Fig. 11 is a cross section of a box with the
device attached. In Figs. 1 and 2 a is the door and a' the door jamb. The latter is
formed with a recess a² covered by a slotted plate a3 and within which is fitted a pin
or axis b upon which is loosely mounted a metal tube b¹ provided with an outer
covering or tube 62 forming a roller of india-rubber or gutta-percha c is the wire loop
or staple fixed at an angle to the edge of the door by means of a plate c¹ and so
arranged that as the door is shut the said staple.c.bears against the cover 62 of the 4
roller forcing the latter to turn on its axis b and compressing the cover so as to permit
of the staple passing beyond the centre of the roller and thus fastening the door as
shewn in Fig. 2. In order to open the door the handle a is simply pulled so as to

page_text: cause the staple to press against and turn the roller in a contrary direction and by its
compression of the same to be drawn out of contact therewith..
In Figs. 3, 4 and 5 the roller is shewn fitted to an ordinary lock-case d fixed to the
inside of the door a the axis b of the roller being brazed or otherwise fixed to the side
of the case and the roller working in a recessed portion d' thereof. The staple c is
in this case fixed at right angles to the jamb a¹ by the locking plate 2 formed with
the slot 3 for receiving the sliding bolt d'.
In Figs. 6 and 7 the roller is fitted to the door a being carried in a recess e formed
in the edge thereof and covered by the slotted plate e¹. In this case the roller is
formed of four india-rubber rings 63 in place of the tube or cover b² which project.
through the slot in the plate slightly beyond its outer surface. The staple c is fixed
to a plate flet into a recess in the jamb a¹ of the doorway and the roller engages
therewith for fastening the door in a similar manner to the arrangements previously
described, the several views in each case shewing the door in its locked position.
Figs. 8. 9 and 10 show the device attached to a mortice lock the plate g of the lock
being formed with a slot g' through which the rings 63 of the roller protrude. The
plate g is formed with an inclined striking plate g2 and the staple c is fixed to the
locking plate g secured to the jamb a¹ of the door, so that in combination with
the roller it may fasten the door as already described.
Fig. 11 shews the device applied to a box the axis b of the roller being fixed to the
inside edge of the front h of the box. The roller is carried in a recess h¹ and the
loop or staple c is fixed to the front of the lid h² so as to engage with the roller for
fastening the lid upon the latter being pressed down. The staple c is slightly curved,
or inclined to cause it to tightly grip the roller when forced beyond its centre.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is be performed I declare that what
we claim is :-
(1) in fastenings for doors, cupboards, lids of boxes, and such like articles the
combination of a roller formed with a yielding surface and carried by the door moving
part, or to the jamb or fixed part of a doorway box, or such like article, and a loop or
staple fixed to the jamb or fixed part or to the door or moving part of such doorway,
box or other article, substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
(2) In fastenings as above claimed the combination of a roller formed of a tube
mounted loosely on a pin or axis and covered by an elastic tube or elastic rings and
a metal loop or staple the latter and the said roller being so arranged that when
engaged with each other upon the closing of the door or lid they shall by their frictional
contact cause the said door or lid to be held in its closed position substantially as
herein described and set forth.
(3) The improvements in fastenings for doors, cupboards lids of boxes and such
like articles substantially as described and shown with reference respectively to
Figs. 1 and 2, to, Figs. 3, 4, 5. to Figs. 6, 7. to Figs. 8, 9, 10 and to Fig. 11 of the
accompanying sheet of drawing.
Dated this 13th day of August 1897.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, Holborn Circus, London, E.C.