IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PANEL DOORS AND FRAMES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Geeves, of 51, Thornhill Square, Barnsbury,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PANEL DOORS AND FRAMES."
Sealed the 1st May 1868, and dated the 5th November 1867..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Geeves at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1867.
I, WILLIAM GEEVES, of 51, Thornhill Square, Barnsbury, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PANEL DOORS AND FRAMES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of panel
doors and frames which are put together with mortice and tenon joints. At
the present time in forming mortice and tenon joints the mortices are cut
with inclined ends and consequently cannot conveniently be finished off by
machinery. These mortices receive tenons which are parallel from end to
end, and between each end of the mortice and the edge of the tenon a single
key or wedge is now driven.
Now according to my Invention I make the mortices with parallel ends,
and between each end of a mortice and its tenon (which is parallel as hereto-

page_text: fore) I insert two keys or wedges; one I place in the keyway with its broader
end inwards, and then I drive the other key or wedge home upon it. On the
inner sides of the tenons I form the driven wedges considerably longer that
the tenons, so that they drive into holes formed for them in the substance of
the rails and serve also as dowels.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Geeves in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GEEVES, of 51, Thornhill Square, Barnsbury, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Geeves, Her special license that I, the said William Geeves,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Geeves, my executors, administrators, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PANEL DOORS AND FRAMES," upon the, condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Geeves, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Geeves, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the, same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of panel
doors and frames which are put together with mortice and tenon joints. At
the present time in forming mortice and tenon joints the mortices are cut

page_text: surfaces of the wedges and the tenons and the mortices having first been well
coated with hot glue. Other frames which are put together with mortice
and tenon joints may be similarly constructed.
I would state that although I prefer to use both parts of my Invention in
combination with one another as above described, yet either part may advan-
tageously be used separately from the other, as when mortices with inclined
ends are used, as is now commonly the case, the wedges employed for
fixing the tenons in the mortices may be made longer than heretofore, and
caused to enter holes in the ends of the rails so that they shall also act as
dowels.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Geeves, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
WILLIAM GEEVES. (L.S.)