Improvements in Door Furniture.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 21st June. 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct:, 1889
PROVISIONAL DIECITIVATION.
Improvements in Door Furniture.
We, ROBERT WHITE of Oxford Street London in the County of Middlesex, Iron-
monger, and PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON of the firm of Thomas Pemborton and Sons
of Livery Street Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of door furniture, known in commerce as
Gibbons's, which consists essentially of a knob, with an extended foot or pummel,
which is affixed and works within a rose, whose back or supplementary part is attached
to a door or other object, by small screws.
Our invention resides principally in the back or supplementary part of the rose,
which is fashioned or raised from sheet metal.
In carrying out our invention, we take an ordinary knob, whose pummel is
extended into a neck, with an annular groove around it, and upon the plain part of
which said neck, the rose works.
The rose consists of an earthenware front part, with a metallic threaded lining
which takes upon the wormed neck of a flanged back part, after the said back part
has been secured to a door or other article, by small screws.
The neck of the back part, is gapped upon its top side, wherethrough a forked
key passes into the groove of the neck, or the extended pummel part.
The front top of the supplementary or back part of the rose, is slightly cut away,
wherethrough a gimblet point is passed into a hole near the top of the fork, for the
purpose of prysing, or raising the said fork out of position, when the knob is required
to be detached from its spindle, and rose.
Thus, the back or supplementary metallic part of the rose, is sunken about its
middle from its rear side, and within which sunken part, the extended neck of the
knob and key, works; and with the inside face of the key coming upon the inside
face of the said metallic back part of the rose.
In making the said back part of the rose, we take a blank of sheet metal, and
raise about its middle, a sunken part, which forms the collar or neck, which is
subsequently outside screwed and gapped, whilst the middle part of the said sunken
part, is pierced with a hole of a diameter a little greater than the breadth of the
spindle.
The screw holes through the flange or flat part of the said back part, are made by
drilling, or formed by press tools.
ROBERT WHITE.
PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Door Furniture.
We, ROBERT WHITE of Oxford Street London in the County of Middlesex, Iron-
monger, and PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON of the firm of Thomas Pemberton and Sons
of Livery Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 :-
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This invention relates to that class of door furniture known in commerce as
"Gibbons's," which consists essentially of a knob, with an extended foot or pummel,

page_text: which is affixed and works within a rose, whose back or supplementary part is attached
to a door or other object by small screws.
Our invention resides principally in the back or supplementary part of the rose,
which is fashioned or raised from sheet metal.
In carrying out our invention, we take an ordinary knob, whose pummel is
extended into a neck with an annular groove around it, and upon the plain part of
which said neck, the rose works.
The rose consists of an earthenware front part, with a metallic threaded lining,
which takes upon the wormed neck of a flanged back part, after the said back part
has been secured to a door or other article by small screws.
The neck of the back part is gapped upon its top side, wherethrough a forked key
passes into the groove of the neck, or the extended pummel part.
The front top of the supplementary or back part of the rose is slightly cut away,
wherethrough a gimblet point is passed into a hole near the top of the fork, for the
purpose of prysing, or raising the said fork out of position, when the knob is required
to be detached from its spindle and rose.
Thus, the back or supplementary metallic part of the rose, is sunken about its
middle from its rear side, and within which sunken part, the extended neck of the
knob and key works, and with the inside face of the key, coming upon the inside face
of the said metallic back part of the rose.
In making the said back part of the rose, we take a blank of sheet metal, and
raise about its middle, a sunken part, which forms the collar or neck, which is
subsequently outside screwed and gapped, whilst the middle part of the said sunken
part is pierced with a hole of a diameter a little greater than the breadth of the
spindle.
The screw holes through the flange or flat portion of the said back part, are made
by drilling, or formed by press tools.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents partly in clevation, and partly
in vertical section, a Gibbon" door furniture, constructed and arranged according
to our said invention.
Figure 2 represents a top side plan of one of the knobs, with the earthenware
rose removed from its assigned position, when the knob is affixed to a door, and upon
one end of a plain spindle.
Figure 3. shows an end view of the knob, when the same is affixed in position.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of the said knob, upon the dotted lines A B figure 2,
showing the fork in position within the groove cut within the neck, or necked
extension of the foot part.
Figure 5 represents a top side plan of the metallic flanged back part of the rose,
and which said part is raised from sheet metal, by a stamping, or raising process.
Figure 6 represents an end elevation of the same, showing the gap or hole at
top, wherethrough a brad-awl or other instrument is inserted for raising the forked
plate out of position.
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Figure 7 represents a front and edge view of the forked plate, and figures 8 and 9
represent side and end views of the pummel end of the knob.
The same letters of reference, indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
b is a detachable knob, provided with a neck or extension 62 at its inner or pummel
end; and cut within this said neck is an annular groove 63, wherein the branches c
of a forked plate c, take, and connect the flanged back plate d of the earthenware
rose e, to the knob, thus enabling the knob to freely turn within the rose, when the
parts are affixed in the positions as represented in figure 1.
The flanged back plate of the rose has a hollow bossed front part d³, with a top
gap d, and hole d' leading into its interior.
The outside periphery of the said bossed part is wormed, and upon which a like
screwed lining e² secured within the rose e takes, when the parts are connected
together. is a plain and square spindle taking through the eye of the knob b, and
with back flanged plate d, secured in position to a door or other object, by small
screws, passing through screw holes d³, made through its flange.

page_text: In securing a knob to a door, and upon a spindle, pass the end of a spindle,
through the follower of a lock or latch of a door, and also thread the same through
the central hole de, of the flanged back plate d, which is then centrally secured in
position to a door, by small screws, passing through the screw holes d'; this
done, pass the eye of the knob over the end of the spindle, and connect the said
knob to the flanged back plate, by slipping the forked plate c, down the gap or
opening d³, to the back of the front walls of the boss d², and into the groove b³,
formed within the neck 2, thereby connecting the knob to the flanged back plate
of the rose.
The china rose e, is then fitted upon its back part d, by screwing it upon the bossed
part d, by scrowing it upon the bossed part d², when the parts are affixed in position,
as represented in figure 1.
The knob which is marked a, upon the other end of the spindle, and upon the
other side of a door, is of the same construction, and affixed in a like manner, as that
of the knob b, and its cognate parts.
Or the knob a, may be permanently affixed to the one end of a spindle and secured
to the door through the intervention of the rose a³, by small screws, passing through
it, or parts of it, and taking into the door marked
9.
When the knob requires to be detached unscrew the china use, and remove the
forked plate, by a prysing action, when the detachable parts become separated. The
fork plate has a hole c', by means of which it is raised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what wo
claim is :-
First Making the flanged back part d, from sheet metal, by a stamping or raising
process, as described and set forth.
Secondly-Making the flanged back part d, rear sunken and gapped and through
which said gapped part or hole d³, the forked plate or key c, c², is introduced upon,
or removed from the neck of the knob, in affixing the knob to or disconnecting it
from the said back plate, substantially as set forth.
Thirdly-The combination with a knob, and the rose of a knob, of a sunken back
plate d d d³, with hole d, and forked plate c c³, with hole c, as set forth.
LastlyThe construction arrangement and combination of the parts of door
furniture, as herein described and set forth in figures 1. 2 3 and 4.
Dated this First day of June 1880.
ROBERT WHITE.
PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
ROBERT WHITE.
PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.