Copard and like Turns.
Year: 1899

page_text: Copard and like Turns.
We, ALFRED BROWN and HENRY CLARKE PRUCE, trading as A. Brown and
Company, of Smallbrook Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to cupboard and like turns, and has for its object, to
improve the construction and operation of such articles.
By our invention, the rotation of a wheel nut is adapted to give a longitudinal
sliding travel to the tongue along the screwed spindle, one end of which is pro-
vided with a handle or turn. This provides a means of adjusting the distance
between the tongue and the shank of the knob to suit doors, drawers and the
like of different thicknesses.
In carrying out one form of our invention, we make the tongue from a flat
blank of sheet metal, suitably stamped or fashioned and having the end part
provided with a pair of separated and square holes. The part between the said
holes is then folded upon itself to form a U-shaped end, with the square holes
coming coincident in the opposite sides. Confined between these sides or branches
and taking upon the screw edge square spindle passing through the said holes,
is a wheel nut or other rotating nut, by the rotation of which the tongue is
traversed in one direction or the other along the spindle and so adjusted relative
to the knob or handle.
In order to prevent the wheel nut from being dislocated from between the
branches when the spindle is withdrawn from the square guide holes in the
tongue and the screwed hole in the nut, we propose to dish or sink the inner, side
of one wing to receive a corresponding boss or projection on the nut or wheel
nut, so that when the said wheel is confined between the branches it is prevented
from dropping out.
Instead of the adjustment nut being confined between the branches of the U end
part of the tongue, the said tongue may have at its inner end, a long ear at right
angles to it, a part of which car is turned upwards to face the tongue and within
the space coming between the said tongue and its turned up ear, which are coin-
cidently pierced with square holes to receive the spindle, the wheel nut comes
and is thereby retained in place.
Instead of the outermost square hole coming near the end of the tongue, a
supplementary end with a round hole in it may be provided, which hole may be
brought coincident with the square hole and the metal encircling it may be
bossed up or dished to engage into the sinking in the wheel nut to prevent the
latter being withdrawn.
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The body of the tongue may also be slit at suitable parts and the metal may be
fetched up into ears or an integral bridge, between which and the pierced body
of the tongue, the wheel nut comes and runs. Or the opposite edges of the

page_text: tongue may be provided with ears which are turned back over the tongue to form
the means for confining the nut.
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ALFRED BROWN,
HENRY CLARKE PRUCE,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
We, ALBERT BROWN and HENRY CLARKE PRUCE, trading as A. Brown and
Company, of Smallbrook Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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:
This invention relates to cupboard and like turns, and has for its object, to
provide a simple and efficient article, which may be cheaply constructed and easily
fitted or applied.
By our invention, the rotation of a wheel nut is adapted to give a longitudinal
sliding travel to the tongue along the screwed spindle, one end of which is pro-
vided with a handle or turn. This provides a means of adjusting the distance
between the tongue and the shank of the knob to suit doors, drawers and the
like of different thicknesses.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of a cupboard
turn constructed in accordance with our invention, whereby the nut which effects
the adjustment of the tongue along the spindle is secured in position in a simple
and effective manner.
Figure 2 is a view showing the tongue and spindle in section.
Figure 3 represents an elevation of the inner side of the tongue piece, Figure 4
a vertical section thereof and Figure 5 an elevation of the outer side.
Figure 6 represents an elevation and a vertical section of the adjusting nut
separately.
Figure 7 shows a plan of the blank from which the tongue-piece is made.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said
Figures 1 to 7.
In carrying out this form of our invention, we make the tongue a, from a
flat blank of sheet metal (such as that shown in Figure 7) suitably stamped or
fashioned and provided with a pair of separated and square holes a¹, a². The
metal between the said holes is then folded upon itself to form a U-shaped end a³,
with the square holes in the opposite sides a, a³, coming coincident. Confined
between these sides or branches and taking upon the screw edge square spindle 6,
passing through the said holes, is a wheel nut or other rotating nut c, by the
rotation of which the tongue is traversed in one direction or the other along the
spindle and so adjusted relative to the knob or handle, by reason of the square-
sectioned spindle and the square holes in the tongue, the said tongue is incap-
able of rotation upon the tongue, but can only turn with it.
In order to prevent the wheel nut being dislocated from between the branches
when the spindle is withdrawn from the square guide holes in the tongue and
the screwed hole in the nut, we propose to dish or sink the inner side of the outer
wing as, at a to form a keeper seating adapted to receive a corresponding boss
or projection c¹, on the nut or wheel nut, so that when the said wheel is con-
fined between the branches it is prevented from dropping out. The wheel nut

page_text: may be made from stout sheet metal, with its edges serrated or milled and the
middle part dished to form the boss. Or a round hole may be provided in one.
wing of the U-shaped part of the tongue which hole may be brought coincident
with the square hole in the other wing and the metal encircling it may be bossed
up or dished to engage into the sinking in the wheel nut to prevent the latter
being withdrawn.
Figure 8 represents a modification in which the wheel nut c is retained between
the branches a, a, by dishing the metal surrounding the square hole in the
latter inwards at a6, to engage into a sinking c¹, formed on the outside of the
said nut.
Figure 9 shows another modification according to which the one side of the
nut c, is provided with a round boss c¹, extending into and taking its bearing
within a hole a6, of corresponding shape and size made through the one wing a³,
of the U-shaped confining end of the tongue. The screwed hole c² in the nut is
extended through the boss whilst only a single square hole a¹, is provided for
preventing the rotation of the tongue around or relative to the spindle.
Instead of the adjustment nut being confined between the branches of the
U end part of the tongue, the said tongue may have at its inner end, a long ear
at right angles to it, a part of which ear is turned outwards to face the tongue
and within the space coming between the said tongue and its turned-up ear which
are coincidently pierced with square holes to receive the spindle, the wheel nut
comes and is thereby retained in place.
Figure 10 represents a blank of metal adapted for the formation of a tongue in
accordance with this form of our invention.
Figure 11 shows the said tongue piece with the nut-retaining ear turned over
to face the lower part of the tongue.
Figure 12 is an edge view, with the nut in position between the tongue.
a is the tongue and the nut, as is the ear attached to the one edge of the
tongue, a is the square hole in the tongue and a² a similar hole in the wing or
ear, which is brought coincident with the first-named when the said ear is folded
over as represented in Figure 11. The said wing is also dished at a, to form
a keeper seating for the reception of a boss or corresponding dished part 1 of
the nut.
The body of the tongue may also be slit at suitable parts and the metal may be
fetched up into ears or an integral bridge, between which and the pierced body of
the tongue the wheel nut comes and runs. Or the opposite edges of the tongue
may be provided with ears which are turned back over the tongue to form the
means for confining the nut. Such an arrangement as this last-named is shown
in Figure 13, in which the opposite edges of the U-shaped part of the tongue
are provided with a series of integral ears a, adapted to be turned inwards and
form a cage which effectually secures the nut whilst still leaving it free for
rotating to traverse the tongue along the spindle.
Figure 14 shows an arrangement in which the nut is confined between or
partially enclosed between the tongue and an ear a, cut out of the said tongue.
The ear is shown dished or recessed at the part surrounding the square spindle
hole in the same and the nut has a corresponding boss to take into the said recess
to retain it in position.
In every form, instead of the dishing to make the recess for the reception of
the boss on the nut being formed on the short leg, or the turned-over side ear, it
may be formed in the opposite part of the tongue, or inwardly or outwardly
bulged parts may be formed on both branches or confining parts to engage with
or receive sinkings or bosses on the two sides of the wheel nut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:
First:—In cupboard and like turns, securing the wheel nut for traversing

page_text: the tongue upon the screwed spindle by nesting or locating a face or part of the
same into or within a keeper seating formed in one of the branches of the end
of the tongue, whereby the said nut which is confined between the said branches,
is prevented from becoming detached from the said tongue when, the latter is
removed from the spindle, substantially as herein described and set forth in the
drawings.
Secondly: A cupboard or like turn, consisting of a tongue having a U-shaped
.end with a square hole or holes in one or both of the opposed branches, one or
both of which is sunken or pierced to receive a corresponding boss on a swivelling
nut located and confined between the said branches substantially as described,
and as illustrated in Figures 1 to 7 and also in Figure 9.
:
Thirdly A cupboard or like turn, consisting of a tongue having, a U shaped
end with a square hole in one of both of the branches, one or both of which is
bossed to take into a corresponding sinking or piercing formed in a swivelling
nut located and confined between the said branches, substantially as described
and as illustrated in Figure 8.
Fourthly-In cupboard turns of the kind herein referred to; confining the nut
between the end of the tongue and an ear which is turned over to partly enclose
or partly overlap the said nut, substantially as herein described and also as illus-
trated in Figures 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1899
ALBERT BROWN,
HENRY CLARKE PRUCE,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.