Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 29th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th July, 1887.
1 WILLIAM SMITH PILDITCH of No. 52 Dieppe Street West Kensington Joiner
and Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
That as doors are now hung they leave a gap between the back edge of the door
and the door-post from which three inconveniences result. Firstly the admission and
access of draughts of air.
Secondly the possible observation by prying eyes of all that is passing in the
interior of the apartment through the wide and ever increasing crack at the back of
the door from the floor upward to the full height of the door.
Thirdly to the danger in opening the door to its full extent thus endeavouring to
put it quite back forcing it against the raised work (such as the mouldings or
ornaments) on the Architrave which mostly frames the doorways, by which operation
the attempt is uselessly made to lay the door parallel and home to the wall and if
persisted in results in prizing the hinges from the door or otherwise wrenching the
hinges from the doorpost.
By my invention the hinges are so placed and adjusted that by working a groove
of a quarter circle both in one of the back edges of the door and a similar one in the
corresponding edge of the door post, the hinges will to the necessary extent become
embedded in the two quarter circles and by such arrangement the edge of the door and
that of the door post will be constantly maintained in such close contiguity that for
all practical purposes prying eyes will be barred and draughts of air excluded and by
a mechanical arrangement the door when required can be put back parallel to the
wall without detriment to or disturbance of the hinges. The leaf of the hinge is
secured to a moulding or other elevation extending from top to bottom of the door and
equal in height to the moulding of the Architrave.
WILLIAM SMITH PILDITCH,
52, Dieppe Street,
West Kensington.

page_text: An Improved System of Adjusting and Hanging Doors and
Casements.
1, WILLIAM SMITH PILDITCH of No. 52 Dieppe Road West Kensington Joiner
and Builder 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:—
For an improved System of adjusting and hanging doors and casements of every
description and their preparation for such purposes and the peculiar application of
hinges to effect the following results.
That as doors are now hung they leave a gap between the back edge of the door
and the door-post, from which three inconveniences result.
Firstly the admission and access of draughts of air.
Secondly the possible observation by prying eyes of all that is passing in the
interior of the apartment through the wide and ever increasing crack at the back of
the door, from the floor upward to the full height of the door.
Thirdly by the danger in opening the door to its full extent thus endeavouring to
pui it quite back forcing it against the raised work such as the mouldings or
ornament on the Architrave which mostly frames the doorways by which operation
the attempt has been uselessly made to lay the door parallel and home to the wall and
if persisted in results in prizing the hinges from the door or otherwise wrenching
the hinges from the door Post.
By my invention the hinges are so placed and adjusted that by working a groove F
of a quarter circle both in one of the back edges of the door and a similar one in A
the corresponding edge of the door post A¹ the hinge will to the necessary extent
become imbedded in the two quarter circles and by such arrangement the edge of the
door and that of the door post will by a moulding C running from bottom to top of
the door be constantly maintained in such close contiguity that for all practical
purposes prying eyes will be barred and draughts of air be excluded and by a
mechanical arrangement of the moulding C the door when required can be put back
parallel to the wall without detriment to or disturbance of the hinges.
A portion of my system can with equal advantage be applied to french Windows.
In order that my said Invention may be fully understood and carried into effect
hereby describe the drawings annexed.
Plate 1. The transverse. Section of a door showing the adjusting Hinge A working
in grooves of two quarter Circles. B the Plinth. the adjusting moulding on the
door from bottom to top concealing and blocking the interstices that otherwise exists
between the door and door-post.
Plate 11. D. The corresponding stile and moulding of the door when closed.

page_text: Plate III. The adjusting hinge A open showing the stile E clearing the Plinth B
and permitting the door to be parrallel to the Wall.
Plate IV. The entire door H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is applied I declare that I claim as follows
Firstly. The employment of a hinge mounted and adjusted in the manner above
described so as to prevent any interstice at the back of the door when open however
much or little.
Secondly. Also the special adjustment permitting the door to lie parallel to the
wall without prejudice to the door the hinge or the doorpost.
Thirdly. Any modifications to attain the same results.
WILLIAM SMITH PILDITCH.