provements in Connecting Knobs Handles, or Pulls to Drawers, Doors, and other Articles
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May 1895
Complete Specification Left 29th Nov 1895-Accepted, 4th Jan,
1.96
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Connecting Knobs Handles, or Pulls to Drawers,
Doors, and other Articles
We, FREDERICK HOSKINS of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell, of Bordesley in
the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer and THOMAS SMITH of Lombard Street,
Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Works, do hereby declue the nature of this
invention to be as follows
Our invention has relation to knobs, handles, pulls, lifts and 'e articles, and
has for its object a simple and efficient mens ror preventing the said articles
from turning, hence the securing of the same to the goods to which they are
attached
Herctofore such articles have been secured by a screwed stem taking through a
hole in a drawer or the like, and then secure by a nut takin on the end of the
stem upon the inside of the drawer
Or the knob or article may have a screwed hole up its middle or through it, into
which a screw passing through the drawer or the like on the inside, takes
According to our invention the knob or uticle is incapable of turning when
affixed, and therefore incapable of being unscrewed or disconnected by ordinary
means
In cariying out our invention in connection with a knob, screwed hole is
directed up its middle, into which a screw having washer at the back of its head,
comes The pummel foot or face of the knob, has an excentrically disposed stud
peg, spike or its equivalent, that is the face of the pummel on the foot has a
leg, stud or spike upon one side of the screwed hole, hence an excentrically
disposed stop
In securing a knob to, say a drawer make a thoroughfare hole through it for
the screwed pin to pass through, and also make suking in the material of the
drawet upon one side of it, and in a position corresponding to that which the peg
has relative to the axial hole
Now place the foot of the knob over the screw hole and with the peg in the
sinking, then pass the screw from the inside of the diawer through the hole and
into the knob, then screw up the screw pin, with the washer at the back of
its head, when the knob becomes affixed and is incapable of tuining on the
crewed pin consequent upon the pе being excentric, and lying in a sinking made
out of centre
When an out-of-centre spike is employed instead of peg, then the said
suke is di inn home into the material of the drawer, by the screwing up of
the screw
As a modification of my invention, the out-of-centre peg, may be carried
by the drawer, and take into an out-of centru sinhung made in the foot of
the knob
Oi a strung-on and secured plate may have the sinking for receiving the peg
of the knob
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hendlos nulle lifts and the like.

page_text: differs in no essential respect from its application to that of a knob as herein
described
Dated this 6th day of Mar 1895
Improvements in Connecting Knobs, Handles, or Pulls to Drawers,
Doors, and other Articles
We, FREDERICK HOSKINS of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell of Bordesley in
the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer and THOMAS SMITH of Lombard Street,
Birmingham aforesaid, Manager of Works, 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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Oui vention has relation to knobs, handles, pulls, lifts and like articles, and
has for its object a simule and efficient means for preventing the sud articles
fiom turning, hence the securing of the same to the goods to which they are
attached
Heretofore such articles have been secured by a screwed stem taking through a
hole in a drawer or the like, and then secured by a nut taking on the end of the
stem upon the inside of the drawer
Or the knob or article may have a screwed nole up its middle or through it, into
which screw pin passing through the drawer or the like on the inside, takes
According to our invention the knob or article is made incapable of turning by
being provided upon its face with a spike lug or exten ion which is made to pierce
the wood of a drawer or take into a corresponding hole in the face of the uticle to
which the knob is attached
Thus in carrying out our invention in connection with a 1 nol, a screwed hole
may be directed up its middle for receiving an affixing screw pin
I he puminel
foot on face of the knot, has an excentrically disposed stud, peg, spile or its
<quivalent, that 14, the face of the puminel or the foot has a peg, stul or spike
upon one side of the serowe I hole, hence an excentrically dispo stop
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing repie ents partly in section and partly
in elevation, diawer knob provided with means for preventing the same from
turning, when affixed, constructed according to one form of my invention The
said knob is shown attached to a drawer front by means of a screw passed axially
up its middle from the inside of the drawer, and with the spike on the face of the
pummel forced into the wood of the opposed face of the drawer
Figure 2 represents the parts separated, with some of them in section
Figure 3epresents the face of the pummel of the knob, showing the spike
a is the knob, having upon its face or foot end a¹, a piercing spike b, which,
when the knob is drawn home by the screwing up of the axial screw pin c, into the
screwed inside a², of the said knob a, is forced into and penetrates the wood or
other material of a diawer, thereby preventing the knob from tuining
head of the bolt and c² a washer
c' is the
Figure 4 represents my improvements applied to a china knob, in which a is the
knob and as a metallic mounting thereof, inside screwed and carrying a spike
ui peg b
When a blunt peg is employed instead of a spike, then a corresponding hole is

page_text: formed to receive the same in the drawer front, and when a rose 15 employed, then
the same is preferably provided with a corresponding hole through which the spike
or peg passes
Figure 5 represents a further modification, in which a is a knob with a spike b
on its foot end, c is a fixed spindle carried upon the knob, and e is a nut taking
upon the screwed end
d is a diawer or door
Figure 6 represents another form of our invention, in which the peg b is carried
by the drawer or the like d, and takes into a corresponding and out-of-centre
sinking or hole a, in the foot of the knob a
The application of our invention to handles, pulls lifts and the like for drawers,
doors, shutters and other uses differs in no essential respect from its application to
a drawer knob as herein described
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 we
claim is
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First In knobs, handles, pulls and lifts for drawers, doors and the like, providing
the foot or pummel of the knob or the like with a spike, peg or equivalent disposed
or lying out of the centre of the said knob, substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth
Secondly In knobs, handles pulls and lifts for drawers, doors and the like,
providing the foot or pummel of the knob or the like with an out-of-centre sinking
which takes over a stud, projection or equivalent carried by a drawer or the like,
substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth in Figure 6
Dated this 28th day of November 1905
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
THOMAS SMITH,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants