IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING KNOBS OR HANDLES
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th March 1880.
RICHARD WRIGHT, of High Gingerfield, Richmond, in the County of York.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING KNOBS OR HANDLES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in securing knobs or handles,
and is especially applicable for securing knobs or handles to drawers. To secure
a knob or handle to the front of a drawer I form the knob with a stem of sufficient
length to pass through the front of the drawer and to project into the drawer a
short distance inwards. In two opposite sides of the stem I form a groove or saw
cut close up to the inner face of the front of the drawer. When the stem of the
knob has been inserted into a hole formed through the front of the drawer, a flat
metal plate having a slot cut in it is caused to embrace the stem at the part
where the grooves or saw cuts are made in it; the metal at the edges of the slot in
the plate enters and fits the saw cuts, and as the plate rests against the inner face
of the front of the drawer it prevents the knob from being withdrawn and holds
it securely. The plate may itself be fixed to the inner face of the drawer by a
screw or pin.
Fixed door knobs or handles, or other knobs or handles, can be secured in the
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
September 1880.
RICHARD WRIGHT, of High Gingerfield, Richmond, in the County of York.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING KNOBS OR HANDLES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in securing knobs or handles,
and is especially applicable-for-securing knobs or handles to drawers. To secure
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page_text: a knob or handle to the front of a drawer I form the knob with a stem of sufficient
length to pass through the front of the drawer, and to project into the drawer a
short distance inwards. In two opposite sides of the stem I form a groove or saw
cut close up to the inner face of the front of the drawer. When the stem of the
knob has been inserted into a hole formed through the front of the drawer a flat
metal plate having a slot cut in it is caused to embrace the stem at the part where
the grooves or saw cuts are made in it; the metal at the edges of the slot in the
plate enters and fits the saw cuts, and as the plate rests against the inner face of
the front of the drawer it prevents the knob from being withdrawn and holds it
securely. The plate may itself be fixed to the inner face of the drawer by a screw
or pin.
Fixed door knobs or handles, or other knobs or handles, can be secured in the
same way.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood I have shown, as an example,
in the Drawing hereunto annexed, a knob or handle secured to the front of a
drawer in the manner above described.
. Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the knob attached to a board forming the
front of a drawer, the board and metal plate by which the knob is held in place
being shown in section; Figures 2 show views of the stem of the knob; Figure 3
shows the locking plate.
A is the knob; B, its stem, circular in cross section; C, C, are saw cuts or
grooves formed across the stem; D is the slotted metal plate which is caused to
embrace the stem where the saw cuts or grooves are made in it; E is a small hole
in the plate D to allow of a small nail or screw being passed through it to keep
it. in place.
To secure the knob in place the circular stem of the knob is first passed through
a hole in the board F which forms the front of a drawer, and the stem is marked
at the place where the saw cuts or grooves are required to be made in it; the
knob is then removed from the drawer and the required saw cuts or grooves are
made in the stem; the stem is then again inserted into the hole in the front of
the drawer, and the edges of the slot in the plate D are caused to enter the grooves
or saw cuts in the opposite sides of the stem, and the plate D is forced into the
position shown at Figure 1, and may then be retained and kept in place by passing
a nail or screw through the hole E.
Instead of the grooves made in the stem of the knob or handle being straight,
as shown at Figures 1 and 2, a groove of uniform depth might be formed all around
the stem, as shown at Figure 4; in this case either one or a pair of plates D, such
as shown at Figure 5, may be used to enter the groove in the stem to retain and
hold it.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I would have it understood that I claim as my improvements in securing
knobs or handles, the combination of the slotted plate or plates entering
grooves or saw cuts in the sides of the stem of the knob or handle, and holding
the knob or handle up to and against the front of a drawer, or to whatever the
knob or handle is to be secured to, substantially in the manner described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Wright, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.