IMPROVED. ATTACH- MENTS OR FASTENINGS CONNECTED WITH SPINDLES AND HANDLES OF DOORS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES, SUCH AS WATER TAPS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Decombe Reynolds, in the employ of Messieurs
Thomas, Platt, and Smith, of No. 72, Aldersgate Strect, in the City of
London, Wholesale Ironmongers, for an Invention of "IMPROVED. ATTACH-
MENTS OR FASTENINGS CONNECTED WITH SPINDLES AND HANDLES OF DOORS,
APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES, SUCH AS WATER TAPS AND THE
LIKE."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Decombe Reynolds
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th July 1880.
PHILIP DECOMBE REYNOLDS, in the employ of Messieurs Thomas, Platt, and
Smith, of No. 72, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Wholesale Ironmongers.
IMPROVED ATTACHMENTS OR FASTENINGS CONNECTED WITH SPINDLES AND
HANDLES OF DOORS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES, SUCH AS WATER
TAPS AND THE LIKE.'
"
This Invention relates to improved attachments or fastenings connected with
spindles and handles of doors, applicable also to other articles, such as water taps
and the like, whereby the unfixed knob or handle of a door lock is securely held
upon the spindle without a pin passing through the neck, and without necessitating
a hole being made in the spindle, as is usual.
According to my Invention I form a square or suitably shaped shoulder upon the
inner end of the loose knob or handle, said shoulder engaging within a corro-
sponding aperture in a sliding collar, which is slid over a square or suitably shaped
nut, which may be separate from or in a piece with the rose if desired. The rose
has a shoulder on to the threaded portion of which an outside collar is screwed to
hold the sliding collar in position, partly over the shaped portion of the nut, and
partly over the shaped portion on the inner end of the loose knob or handle..
If I arrange the nut separate from the rose I can affix the rose to the door, the
nut being then allowed to turn with the spindle, but if it forms part of the rose the
latter is left free..
In fixing the spindle in position it is first pushed through the lock for its free
end (which is screw threaded) to be exposed, the nut, or the rose and nut combined,

page_text: is then pushed on to the spindle, and the outside collar is placed over the neck of
the loose knob or handle and the sliding collar also. The loose knob or handle is
then screwed on to the spindle until its inner face touches the face of the nut, and
the two squares correspond; the sliding collar is then pushed over the two shaped
portions of the nut and of the knob, and then the outside collar is screwed upon
the threaded portion of the rose or of the nut, as the case may be, leaving the
spindle to be turned to the right or to the left without becoming loose, and without
the use of a pin passed into the spindle.
In using my attachments or fastenings to taps I shape the end of the connection
pipe which passes through, say, a boiler plate, and I also shape the end of the tap to
correspond and I arrange the sliding collar and the outside collar in a similar
manner to that described, for the lock spindle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Philip Decombo Reynolds in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th January 1881.
PHILIP DECOMBE REYNOLDS, in the employ of Messieurs Thomas, Platt, and
Smith, No. 72, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Wholesale Ironmongers.
"IMPROVED ATTACHMENTS OR FASTENINGS CONNECTED WITHI SPINDLES AND
HANDLES OF DOORS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES, SUCH AS WATER
TAPS AND THE LIKE"
This Invention relates to improved attachments or fastenings connected with
spindles and handles of doors, applicable also to other articles, such as water taps
and the like, whereby the unfixed knob or handle of a door lock is securely held
upon the spindle, without the use of the pin which is usually passed through the
neck, and without necessitating a hole or a series of holes boing made in the
spindle, as by the present system.
The annexed Sheet of Drawings clearly show my Invention as applied to a door
lock, and also to a tap, to which and to other like purposes it is applicable.
Figure 1 is an exterior view of the loose knob or handle; Figure 2 a back face
view of same; Figure 3 is a side and elevation of the sliding collar; Figure 4 is a
section of the outside collar showing the sliding collar in position within it, and
Figure 5 is a section of the nut; Figure 6 shows a section of the nut in a piece
with the rose, but the rose may be separate from it if desired. Figure 7 is a part
sectional view of the Invention as affixed to the lock of a door, the several parts
being in position.
According to my Invention I form a square or suitably shaped shoulder ▲ upon
the inner end of the loose knob or handle B, said shoulder engaging within a corre-
sponding aperture in a sliding collar C, which is slid over a squaro or suitably
shaped nut D, which may be separate from or in a piece with the rose E. The
rose E has a shoulder F, on to the threaded portion of which an outside collar G is
screwed to hold the sliding collar C in position, partly over the shaped portion of
the nut D, and partly over the shaped portion A on the innor end of the loose knob
or handle B.
If I arrange the nut D separately from the rose E, I can affix the rose E to the
door H, the nut D being then allowed to turn with the spindle I, but if it forms
part of the rose E the latter is loft free.
In fixing the spindle I in position it is first pushed through the lock J for its
free end K (which is screw threaded) to bo exposed; the nut D (or the rose E and
nut D combined) is then pushed on to the spindle, and the outsido collar G is placed
over the neck L of the loose knob or handle B, and the sliding collar C on to the
square A. The looso knob or handle B is then screwed on to the spindle until its
inner face of the sliding collar C touches the face of the nut D, and the two squares
correspond; the sliding collar C is then pushed over and on to the shaped portion
of the nut, leaving a portion of itself on the square of the knob shoulder, and then
the outside collar G is screwed upon the threaded portion of the nut D or of the
rose, as the case may be, leaving the spindle I to be turned to the right or to the
left without becoming loose, and without the use of a pin having to be passed into
the spindle, as is usual.
In using my attachments or fastenings to taps, I shape the end of the connection
pipe (see Figure 8 of the Drawings) which passes through, say, a boiler plate M, and
I also shape the end of the tap N to correspond. I arrange the sliding collar C and
the outside collar G in a similar manner to that described for the lock spindle.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
The improved attachments or appliances as shown in the annexed Drawings, for
the purpose or purposes herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Decombe Reynolds, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent,
40, Fleet Street,
London.
PHILIP DECOMBE REYNOLDS. (L.S.)