AN. IMPROVED SPINDLE FOR DOOR HANDLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Thompson, Ironmonger, of 54, Manchester
Road, Bradford, in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN.
IMPROVED SPINDLE FOR DOOR HANDLES."
Sealed the 6th May 1870, and dated the 11th February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Thompson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th February 1870.
I, JAMES THOMPSON, Ironmonger, of 54, Manchester Road, Bradford,
; in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED SPINDLE FOR DOOR HANDLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of two or more pieces or parts of metal placed
together longitudinally so as to form the spindle of the requisite size.
In one of the pieces or parts there is a slot at one end and a tapped hole
at the other end. The other piece or part has also a tapped hole at the
contrary end of the spindle to the slot. When the pieces or parts are put

page_text: together they are capable of being moved or slid endwise to adjust
themselves to the thickness of the door by reason of the slot, and the
handles are then fixed and held in position by means of a set screw
passed through each handle and into the tapped holes, the screw at the
slot end nipping the parts together, while the screw at the other 5
end forces them asunder and binds the parts against the sides of the
handle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
THOMPSON, Ironmonger, of 54, Manchester Road, Bradford, in the
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, tho said James Thompson, Her special licence that I, the
said James Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Thompson, 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 "AN IMPROVED SPINDLE FOR DOOR
HANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Thompson, my executors or administrators, 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 James Thompson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and. in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and

page_text: by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is
to say) :-
This Invention consists of two or more pieces or parts of metal
placed together longitudinally so as to form the spindle of the requisite
size. In one of the pieces or parts there is a slot at one end and a tapped
hole at the other end. The other piece or part has also a tapped hole at
the contrary end of the spindle to the slot. When the pieces or parts
are put together they are capable of being moved or slided endwise to
adjust themselves to the thickness of the door by reason of the slot, and
the handles are then fixed and held in position by means of a set screw
passed through each handle and into the tapped holes, the screw at the
slot end nipping the parts together, while the screw at the other end
forces them asunder and binds the parts against the sides of the handle.
In order that this Invention may be fully understood I herein give
reference to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings of a door handle or a
pair of knobs and spindle made or constructed according to my said

page_text: spindle asunder and against the sides of the holes in the knobs, but it is
requisite that the said screws are inserted on opposite sides of the spindle,
as will be seen and understood by reference to the Drawing. This
method of forcing the two parts of the spindle apart will have the
tendency or effect of holding the spindle tight in the "follower" of the
lock or latch to which it may be applied, and in order to produce a
greater amount of expansion or tendency to expand I sometimes form
the holes in the knobs wider in that direction. It will be observed that
both parts of the spindle and the two knobs are separate from or not
attached to each other until applied to the door.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings in what manner the same is or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would have it understood that I do not claim the appli-
cation or use of spindles for door handles or knobs constructed in two
parts longitudinally; but what I claim is, the method of constructing,
adjusting, and fixing door handles or the knobs on the spindles in
manner substantially as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Thompson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy.
Signed, scaled, and delivered by the
within-named James Thompson,
in the presence of
EDWARD TASKER.
JAMES THOMPSON. (L.s.)