An Improved Quadrant Arrangement for use with Drop-fronts of Desks, Bookcases, or the like Pieces of Furniture.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
An Improved Quadrant Arrangement for use with Drop-fronts of
Desks, Bookcases, or the like Pieces of Furniture.
I, ALFRED MAW, of Grosvenor Lodge, Hornsea, in the County of Yorkshire,
Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A quadrant made in brass, iron, or any other metal to suspend any fall front
when open, and to secure the same closed when shut, without the aid of lock or
catch.
For the purpose of my invention, I connect a quadrant or bent piece of metal
or other suitable material, to the drop front, this quadrant or the like passes under
or through a guide fixed preferably to the inside of the book case, desk, or the
like in connection with which it is being used, such quadrant works under or
within such guide, and is provided with a weight on its inside end, such weight
may have a projection on it to catch the guide for the purpose of preventing the
said quadrant from sliding too far.
If desired, the guide may be provided with movable pieces to grip the quadrant
when the fall front has dropped low enough.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
An Improved Quadrant Arrangement for use with Drop-fronts of
Desks, Bookcases, or the like Pieces of Furniture.
I, ALFRED MAW, Grosvenor Lodge, Hornsea, Yorks, Merchant, 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 consists of a weighted balance quadrant or lever, made of any
suitable material, for keeping wood or metal drop fronts securely closed when shut
and firmly supporting the same when open, and is applicable to furniture, fitments,
fixtures, machinery, garden seats, kneeling boxes or the like.
In carrying out my invention, I find it convenient to form the quadrant of
brass which may be made to any desired shape, size or weight.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now refer for purposes
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page_text: of illustration to the enclosed drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents the quadrant
or lever
(A) being the end which is fixed by screwing or bolting on to the drop front.
(B) being the weighted end which secures the drop front when closed, and is
shaped so as to support the front when open.
(C) being the guide and stop, fixed to the side of the case or division which
firmly holds the end marked B when open.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of two cases.
(D) shewing the quadrant securing the front when closed.
(E) shewing the quadrant supporting the front when open.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A weighted quadrant formed of suitable material such as brass or iron, and
which is fixed to a drop front so as to support the same when open and secure
when shut.