Improvements in Fastenings for Cupboard Doors and other similar purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL DE MULTIOA LION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Cupboard Doors and other similar
purposes.
I, CHARLES SHOWELL, of Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of fastenings, primarily
intended for cupboard, pedestal, and church pew doors, but which may be used for
other similar purposes.
It consists of a bevilled or swelled catch in combination with a spring bow catch,
one of such catches being secured to the door, and the other to the door frame or
other fixture, so that when the door is closed the bevilled or swelled catch is pressed
into the spring catch, which latter holds it with a sufficient amount of power, for
practical and useful purposes; but which will yield to a greater force when it is
required to open the said door.
The application of the invention for instance to a cupboard would be as follows:-
Upon the door frame or fixture against which the door rests, a screw plate or its
equivalent is provided, upon which is mounted a spring, This spring is preferably
made of strip thin steel, rivetted at its centre to a screw down plate, or, it may be
screwed direct to the frame &c. without such plate. This spring is then bent into
a bow form, its outer ends again closing in towards each other neckwise, and then
again opening outwards somewhat.
Upon the inside of the door, is now fixed the catch which is made to enter the
aforesaid spring bow. This consists of a piece having a bevilled side or sides and
a reduced rear part. When the door is closed, this bevilled portion forces its way
between the neck part of the spring, which latter, when the former has passed such
neck part, closes again upon the reduced rear part of the catch piece, and prevents
its return. By means of a suitable knob or handle upon the door, however, the door
may be forcibly opened against the clipping pressure of the spring, the latter
yielding to such force. This knob or handle may be separate from, or form the
front part of the catch piece.
Thus a fastening is provided which sufficiently holds the door in its closed
position, without any turning of the handle or knob, either for closing or opening.
Dated this 20th day of May 1890.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Cupboard Doors and other similar
purposes.
I, CHARLES SHOWELL, of Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Brassfounder, 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 improvements in the manufacture of fastenings, primarily

page_text: intended for cupboard, pedestal, and church pew doors, but which may be used for
other similar purposes.
It consists of a bevilled or swelled catch in combination with a spring bow catch,
one of such catches being secured to the door, and the other to the door frame or
other fixture, so that when the door is closed the bevilled or swelled catch is pressed
into the spring catch, which latter holds it with a sufficient amount of power, for
practical and useful purposes, but which yield to a greater force when it is required
to open the door.
The application of the invention for instance to a cupboard would be as follows:-
Upon the door frame or fixture against which the door rests, a screw plate or its
equivalent is provided, upon which is mounted a spring. This spring is preferably
made of thin strip metal (steel), rivetted at its centre to a screw down plate, or, it
may be screwed direct to the frame &c., without such plate. This spring is then
bent into a bow form, its outer ends again closing in towards each other neckwise,
and then again opening outwards somewhat.
Upon the inside of the door is now fitted the catch which is made to enter the
aforesaid spring bow. This consists of a piece having a bevilled side or sides and a
reduced rear part. When the door is closed, this bevilled portion forces its way
between the neck part of the spring, which latter, when the former has passed such
neck part closes again upon the reduced part of the catch piece, and prevents its
return. By means of a suitable knob or handle upon the door, however, the door
may be forcibly opened against the clipping pressure of the spring, the latter
yielding to such force. The knob or handle may be separate from, or form the
front part of the catch piece.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto an
illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures and letters of reference, similar
letters referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part, and in
which-
Fig. 1 shews in plan view this my invention as applied to a cupboard door, the
said door being represented as closed and secured.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the invention showing the door opened.
Fig. 3 is a plan view, Fig. 4 a side view and Fig. 5 a front view in detail of the
catch.
Fig. 6 is a front view, Fig. 7 a side view and Fig. 8 a plan view in detail of the
spring portion of this my invention.
a, is the door frame or the fixture against which the door rests. b is the door.
e is the screw down plate upon which is carried the spring d having the two
bow arms e, e, and necked in parts
f
g, is the catch piece which is secured to the door b. The front part of this catch
is bevilled upon each side so that it may readily enter and force open the aforesaid
parts of the spring d.
The precise shape both of the spring part d, and also of the catch piece g, may of
course be somewhat varied without departing from the nature of this invention.
It will now be readily seen from the drawings (see Fig. 2,) that upon closing the
door, the front portion of the piece g, is pressed into the neck parts ff, the
arms e, e, yielding to such pressure, until the neck is passed, as seen in Fig. 1, when
the parts, clip firmly the piece g, in the rear reduced parts h, h.
An equal amount of force is sufficient to pull the piece g, backwards through the
neck parts, in the door.
Thus a fastening is provided which sufficiently holds the door in its closed
position, without any turning of the handle or knob, either for closing or opening.
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 :-
The combination in door fastenings with a catch piece 9, having a rear reduced

page_text: part such as at h, h, of a spring grip d, having arms e, e, and neck part or parts
operating substantially as described and illustrated upon the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of February 1891.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.