Improvements in Drawer Knobs.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drawer Knobs.
JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON 45 Great Ancoats Street Manchester Ironmonger do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements in drawer knobs consists in applying plates of metal, such as
brass, iron &c. or other hard material to knobs in such a manner that the
appearance of knobs fixed on drawers is greatly improved, and combining the
appearance of fancy handle, with the greater gripping power of knobs.
I make the knobs of any suitable material as for instance, wood, metal, china,
glass, papier-maché etc. and the ornamental plates of brass, nickel silver, malleable
iron (bronzed or nickel silvered) or in some special cases of bone ivory or fancy
woods.
These plates are in one method to be screwed or nailed to drawer fronts and
have a hole in centre through which the peg of knob passes. Another way is to
have the edges of the ornamental plates when made of metal, turned at right angles
to the face of the plate sufficiently deep to allow of a flange on peg of knob to be
flush with the edges of the plate and having the hole in centre cut with fine teeth
to grip tightly a step formed on peg. The knob being securely fastened on this
peg, fitted tightly through the ornamental plate, the whole can be applied to
drawers without having to bore a hole through the wood for the peg to pass
through, as is necessary with the knobs at present in use.
In some cases I prefer to do without the peg and to form the knob in one solid
piece and fasten it to the plate by means of screws, put through from the back of
plate, but this method is appliable only to plates made of metal.
In case of knobs made of brittle material as glass or china I provide a socket to
be turned over a flange on neck of knobs, which socket has lugs or projections for
fastening through the plates by being fitted with nut and screw or by rivetting
or the knobs may be used as at present made with screw on knob to fit through
plate into drawer front, the new part in this case being the application of fancy
ornamental plates to such knobs. These ornamental plates when made of wood
may be ornamented by fretwork, carving or inlaid work or left plain and polished
to match the knobs they are to be used with, whilst in metal they may be stamped
in repoussé, pierced or cast in moulds to any design or pattern.
Dated this 8th day of October 1890.
JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drawer Knobs.
JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON of 45 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester Ironmonger
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:—
The knobs in this invention are preferably made of wood or china (but may also
be made of glass, bone, ivory or other suitable material) in combination with brass
or other metal plates. I do not confine myself to any particular method of securing
the knobs to the plates, but the methods described and illustrated I find most
satisfactory

page_text: WOOD KNOBS.
The ornamental brass or nickel plate may be of any size, or of any design either
circular, oblong for other shape and may be stamped from sheet metal or cast in
moulds. A hole is pierced in centre of metal plate, as shewn at A Fig. 3 of
sufficient size to admit collar E Fig. 5. The collar E Fig. 5 is grooved or pierced
to take projections left circumference of hole A. Fig. 3 to keep the collar Fig. 5
from turning round when fixed in plates. The wood knob is screwed to receive
wooden peg C Fig. 4 the head of peg being proper size to fit into collar E Fig. 5
flush with it. The bottom portion of the hole in knob D Fig. 2 is countersunk
wide enough and sufficiently deep to receive the portion of collar E Fig. 5 which
passes through the plate F as shewn at E Fig. 1. The drawings Figs. 1 and 6
shew the different parts in section fixed in position required.
The collar E Fig. 5 instead of being loose as described, may be formed by
raising the surface of the plate Fat centre to receive the head of the wooden peg
Fig. 4 or the collar E may be lengthened and a screwed thread formed on it to fit
the screwing of the knob C Fig. 2, and thus do without the wood peg.
CHINA AND GLASS KNOBS.
China knobs may be used in the manner previously described for wood knobs, or
as under for glass or other brittle material.
The metal collar E Fig. 6 is left open at the end which has passed through the
plate F Fig. 6 and is spun securely on to the shoulder of the knob as shown at E
Fig. 6:
The knobs may be of any pattern or design and may also be of any convenient.
size, and any number of screw holes may be cut in plates for the purpose of fixing
the knobs to drawers, and the proportions of knobs to plates may be varied at will
to suit different kinds and sizes of drawers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
nvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
laim is
1. Knobs for drawers securely fastened to plain or ornamental brass or other
metal plates.
2. Knobs for drawers securely fastened to plain or ornamental plates in the
manner illustrated and described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1891.
JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON.