IMPROVEMENTS IN HINGES
Year: 1885

page_text: I EDWARD ARNOTT CLOWES of Sharpnell Park Byfleet in the County of Surrey
Printer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HINGES" to be as follows:-
My improved hinges are so formed that when attached to a pair of boards such
as the leaves of a folding table they will when open bring the two flaps into the
same plane and when closed bring them into parallel planes situated a short
distance apart so that their surfaces will not touch and injure each other, and also
that the space between them may form a receptacle for various articles. The hinges
also form a light strong and firin attachment for the boards..
Figure 1 shews one of my improved hinges when fully open, and Figure 2 when
closed.
The hinge consists as shown of similar halves jointed together, each half is bent
round to a right angle: Bending the hinge in this manner allows there to be a
very long attachment and one in which the screws enter the boards across the grain
so that they will hold very firmly without risk of splitting the wood.
As shewn in Figure 2 when the hinge is closed the boards lie in planes parallel
to one another at a short distance apart.

page_text: I EDWARD ARNOTT CLOWES of Shrapnell Park Byfleet in the County of Surrey
Printer 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:―
My improved hinges are so formed that when attached to a pair of boards such
as the leaves of a folding table they will when open bring the two flaps into the
same plane and when closed bring them into parallel planes situated a short distance
apart so that their surfaces will not touch and injure each other, and also that the
The hinges also
space between them may form a receptacle for various articles.
form a light strong and firm attachment for the boards.
Figure 1 shows one of my improved hinges when fully open, and Figure 2 when
closed.
The binge consists as shown of similar halves jointed together, each half is bent
round to a right angle. Bending the hinge in this manner allows there to be a very
long attachment and one in which the screws enter the boards across the grain so
that they will hold very firmly without risk of splitting the wood.
As shown in Figure 2 when the hinge is closed the boards lie in planes parallel
to one another at a short distance apart.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 show my improved hinge in another form.
Figures 3 and 4 represent a side elevation and a plan of the hinge in the open
position. Figures 5 and 6 are similar views of the hinge as it appears when
closed.
In each case the flaps of the hinge are rectangular the outer end a¹ of the flap
being at right angles to the part a adjacent to the joint.
The hinge shown by the Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 has also a lug a² on each Hap
which receives the end of the screw next the extremity of the flap or board. By
providing this lug to receive the screw the joint is much strengthened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
(1.) My improved hinge with right angle flaps and adapted for connecting two
boards to forin one continuous surface when open and when folded to be parallel
to each other and at a distance apart as herein described.
(2.) My improved hinge substantially as described and represented in the annexed
drawings.