IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINDLES AND THEIR KNOBS OR HANDLES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO DOORS AND DRAWERS.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Wilkes, of 21, Cockspur Street, West-
minster, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINDLES AND THEIR KNOBS OR HANDLES, ESPECIALLY
APPLICABLE TO DOORS AND DRAWERS.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Wilkes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th January 1871.
I, SAMUEL WILKES, of 21, Cockspur Street, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINDLES AND THEIR KNOBS OR HANDLES,
ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO DOORS AND DRAWERS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide such arrangements for
securing the knobs or handles for doors or drawers to their spindles or.
shank parts so as to avoid the necessity of screwing up (in order to fix).
and unscrewing (in order to unfix) when it is required to secure the
knob or handle to the door or drawer or to disengage the spindle from

page_text: the knob or handle or to remove the same from the door or drawer, or
the use of any other troublesome arrangements hitherto adopted for
such purposes. Also to provide the spindle with means of adjustment
to the varying thicknesses of doors, drawers, and locks.
To secure knobs or handles to spindles I can adopt the following i
arrangements :-The spindle at the end where the moveable knob or
handle is to be secured is provided with a groove or slot in which a
spring is secured free to act, such spring having at or near its end a
stud to fit into an orifice in the knob or handle, such knob or handle
being so formed internally that upon depression the spring may readily
slip into the socket in the knob or handle and then take into the orifice
in the knob or handle so as to fix the same on to the spindle. By
pressing the stud when fitted in the orifice the knob may be drawn away
from the spindle.
In order to allow the spindle to be adjusted to the door or drawer the
spring is fitted on to a screw nut or screw on the end of the spindle, so
that the position of the stud may be altered as required for different
thicknesses of doors, drawers, or locks.
The knobs or handles may be formed in any way desirable, and the
details of application of the knob, the spindle, and the spring may be
varied according to the requirements of the case.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Wilkes in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th May 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL 2
WILKES, of 21, Cockspur Street, Westminster, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty- 3
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Wilkes, Her special licence
that I, the said Samuel Wilkes, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Wilkes, my excentors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINDLES AND THEIR KNOBS OR HANDLES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO DOORS AND
DRAWERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said.
Samuel Wilkes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should.
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Wilkes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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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The nature or objects of this Invention consists in providing improved
arrangements hereafter described for securing the knobs or handles for
doors and drawers to their spindles or shank parts, so as to avoid the
necessity of screwing up in order to fix, and unscrewing in order to
unfix same when it is required to fix or to disengage the spindle from
the knob or handle or to remove same from the door or drawer, or the
use of other troublesome arrangements hitherto adopted for such
purposes. Also to provide the spindle with improved means of adjust-
ment to the varying thicknesses of doors, drawers, and locks.
To secure knobs or handles to the spindles I adopt the following
arrangements-The spindle at the end where the movable knob or
handle is to be secured is provided with a groove or slot in which a
spring is secured free to act, which spring having at or near it end a.
round stud to fit into a round hole in the knob or handle, such knob
or handle being so formed internally that upon depression the spring
may readily slip into the socket in the knob or handle so as to fix
the same on to the spindle. By pressing the stud when fitted in the
round hole the knob may be drawn away from the spindle....
In order to allow the spindle to be adjusted to the door or drawer the
spring is fitted on to a screw nut or screw on the end of the spindle, so.

page_text: that the position of the stud may be altered as required for different..
thicknesses of doors, drawers, or locks.
In these arrangements it will be necessary that the following points:
should be attended to in order to carry out my said improvements :-
1st, the spring must be connected or fastened to the spindle; 2nd, the
regulating power must be fixed at the end of the spindle, the regulating.
power being the small screw at the end of this spindle; 3rd, a round stud
must be fixed upon the spring, such stud to take or fall into a round.
hole prepared for it in the neck of the knob or handle.
Having thus described the nature and objects of this Invention and
incidentally described in what manner the same is to be performed or
put in operation, I will now proceed to particularly ascertain and
describe in what manner the same are to be performed or put in
operation by reference to the Drawings accompanying these Presents
which I shall do by referring to the said Drawings, as follows:-
:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows side view of that end of a spindle to which my improved
arrangements are applied; Fig. 1*, detail of spring and collar; Fig. 2,
plan or top view; Fig. 3, exterior view of a knob or handle for my
spindle, which may be of any ordinary or suitable form or character;
Fig. 4, inside end of the knob or handle showing the square hole for
the reception of the end of the spindle.
In these Figures A denotes the spindle; B, screw screwed into or
forming part of the end of the spindle; C, nut or screw collar on the
said screw, which, together with such screw, forms the regulating power.
To this collar the spring D is secured by a portion of it marked x, being
clipped round the said collar as particularly shown in Fig. 1*; E, square
hole for spindle; F, round hole in the neck of the knob or handle, into
which the stud marked X, X, takes or falls and so secures the knob or
handle to the spindle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention, and in what manner the same may be
performed or put in operation, I hereby declare that I claim the In-
vention of "Improvements in Spindles and their Knobs or Handles,
especially Applicable to Doors and Drawers," in respect of the following
points:

page_text: 1st. The spring connected or fastened to the spindle.
2nd. The regulating power fixed at the end of the spindle, such
regulating power being the small screw at the end of this spindle.
3rd. The round stud fixed upon the spring, which stud is to take or
fall into the round hole prepared for it on the neck of the knob or handle,
and so secure the knob or handle to the spindle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wilkes, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-onc.
Witness,
SAM. WILKES. (L.S.)
THOMAS MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
21, Cockspur Street.