Improvements in Cupboard Turns or Fasteners for Doors.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cupboard Turns or Fasteners for Doors.
We, JOSEPH SMITH of Raven Street Keighley in the County of York Iron-
monger and WILLIAM FOSTER of 57 Mornington Street Keighley aforesaid Clerk
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in cupboard-turns or fasteners for the doors of
cupboards and the like and consists of so forming same and parts to be used in
connection therewith, that they may answer the purposes of door-fasteners or
cupboard-turns more efficiently than do those as heretofore constructed or formed.
In accordance with this our invention we form the stem or screwed-shaft which is
attached to the handle or knob in the usual manner, round or cylindrical, and on the
tongue or finger we form a small boss through which the said screwed shaft has to
pass to receive a check-nut on its outer end for purposes well known, said boss on
the tongue beside adding to the strength thereof at this part, forms suitable means
fer holding the extending end of the tongue the desired distance from the part
upon which it is mounted.
To be used in connection with the above described tongue, is a catch-piece which
is formed with a base part for attachment and a laterally projecting part to afford
hold for the tongue of the fastener and the outer edges of this lateral part are
formed to taper outwardly so as to facilitate the said laying hold thereof of or by
the tongue.
A strengthening rib is formed on the catch-piece at about centrally between its
extremities, and this rib serves as a stop-piece for the tongue.
For cupboards having two doors only one of these fasteners with its catch-piece
is required for holding or securing both of said doors although a fastener may be
attached to each door if desired.
The tongue above described may be made double that is it may be made to
extend in opposite directions from its central boss by which means the handle or
knob will never be further, than a quarter turn out of position for making one or
the other part of said tongue engage with its fastener.
Dated this 24th dox of October 1890
JOSEPH SMITH..
WILLIAM FOSTER.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cupboard Turns or Fasteners for Doors.
We JOSEPH SMITH of Raven Street Keighley in the County of York, Iron-
monger, and WILLIAM FOSTER of 57 Mornington Street, Keighley aforesaid,
Clerk, 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, that is to say :-
fasteners for the doors of
same and parts to be used
purposes of cupboard turns
It relates to improvements in cupboard turns or
cupboards and the like and consists of so forming
in connection therewith that they may answer the
or door fasteners more efficiently than do those as heretofore constructed and
employed

page_text: In order that our invention may be more easily understood, we have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings illustrative of same, to which, by figures and letters,
reference is made in the following description.
Fig. 1. is a side sectional view of our improved fastener, as fitted to a cupboard.
Fig. 2. is a sectional view as seen from the inside of the cupboard, and Fig. 3 is
a sectional top view of same.
The object of our said invention, is attained by forming the stem or screwed-
shaft, a which is attached to the handle or knob a¹ in the usual and well known
manner of square form and forming upon the tongue or finger b, (which is preferably
double that is extending on each side of the shaft a as shewn by Figs. 1. and 2)
through which said shaft a passes, a small boss c this boss c being attached to the
shaft a by means of the screw d, in close proximity with the inside of the cupboard
door e, thus, beside making this part of the fastener stronger, it also keeps the
outer end of the tongue the required distance from the door c.
The catch-piece to be used in connection with this fastener is formed by the
base-plate, (which is for attachment to the shelf of the cupboard), having a
laterally projecting part g, the outer edge of which may be formed to taper if
desired so as to afford a better hold for the tongue b. From this it will be seen
that when the tongue bis turned so as to engage with the part 9 of the fastener,
the door e is held firmly in its closed position.
At or near the centre of the catch-piece is formed the strengthening rib k, which
acts as a stop-piece for the tongue b, and by this tongue extending in cach direction
from its axial motor it will readily be seen that it cannot be moved more than a
quarter of a turn out of its position for engaging with its catch-piece, so that at
all times one quarter turn of the knob a' effects the object desired.
For cupboards having two doors only one of these fasteners together with its
catch-piece is necessary for holding both of said doors in their closed positions
however a fastener and its catch-piece may be used in connection with each of the
doors if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is.
1. A cupboard-turn or door fastener formed as herein described the same having
a separate catch-picce with a strengthening rib k, substantially as herein specified
and for the purposes set forth.
JOSEPH SMITH.
WILLIAM FOSTER.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
JOSEPH SMITH.
WILLIAM FOSTER.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.