Improvements in and relating to Door Handles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Door Handles.
I, MARY JANE STONE, of 2, Northumberland Avenue, Barnes, London, S. W.,
Widow, 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
by the following statement; -
This invention relates to improvements in door-knob furniture and has for
object to provide a door-knob and its spindle so constructed as to prevent the
knob becoming loose and subsequently detached from the spindle during use.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings wherein, Fig. 1 is an elevational view of a spindle made
in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 a similar view partly in section of
the complete door-knob furniture. Referring to the drawings, wherein like
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures, a is a spindle of
square or other convenient form in section. For a certain portion of its length,
at each end, one of the surfaces of the said spindle a is recessed or cut away as
at b, in such a manner as to provide shoulders c. To these recessed parts bare
fixed by rivets e¹ or their equivalent, flat springs e of such a length that their
rear or inner ends do not quite reach the shoulders c but leave a space between
such inner ends and the said shoulders.
One of the sides of the opening or mouth d¹ of each door-knob d is provided
with a lip or shoulder at the front of such opening or mouth d¹, against
which lip or shoulder the rear or inner end e² of the spring e abuts.
In operation, the ends of the spindle a are inserted in the openings or mouths d³,
of the knobs d, which action causes the spring, e to be depressed until the lips or
shoulders upon the interior of the mouths of the door-knobs are between the
free ends of the spring e and the shoulders upon the spindle.. As will be
obvious the door-knob cannot be removed from the spindle when once in this
position, until the free ends of the spring e are held down so as to allow of the
lip or shoulders to clear the ends of said springs. Openings of may be pro-
vided in the said door knobs d for the insertion of an instrument to depress the
springs when it is desired to remove such knobs from their spindles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention. and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what
I claim is:-
CLAIMS.
1. In door-knob furniture the spindle having recessed or cut away ends to pro-
vide vertical shoulders on which recessed portions are fixed flat springs whose
free ends are toward but do not touch the said vertical shouldors suhetantiall..

page_text: 2. In door-knob furniture, the combination of a spindle having recessed ends
provided with springs, of door-knobs whose mouths or openings are provided on
one side each with a lip or shoulder, substantially as and for the purpose
described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 12th dox of Sontombar 1800
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.