IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING DOOR OR OTHER KNOBS AND HANDLES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Kennard, of 32, Little Queen Street,.
Holborn, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING DOOR OR
OTHER KNOBS AND HANDLES."
Sealed the 10th October 1854, and dated the 16th August 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kennard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
August 1854.
I, WILLIAM KENNARD, of 32, Little Queen Street, Holborn, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING DOOR
OR OTHER KNOBS AND HANDLES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of so forming the knobs or handles that they will
turn in the rose, and the rose is fixed by means of a screw and nut. For
this purpose the stems or shanks of the knobs or handles are formed with
flanches or projections, which fit into and revolve in grooves or hollows formed
in the roses, by which, when a rose attached to a knob or handle is fixed or
held, the knob or handle can turn freely; and the rose is fixed to the door or
other surface by a tube, with a screw thereon, which is fixed to the rose, and
this screw receives and is fixed by a screw nut. The spindle of the lock
passes through the tube, which is affixed to the rose, and into a square socket
in the stem of the handle or knob, by which combination of parts the fixing of
the spindle to the knob or handle is rendered unnecessary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Kennard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KENNARD, of.32, Little Queen Street, Holborn, send greeting....
WHEREAS Her. most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Kennard, Her special licence that I, the said William Kennard, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Kennard, my executors, 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 ATTACHING DOOR
OR OTHER KNOBS AND HANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I; the
William Kennard, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Senl Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Kennard, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say):-
:-
This Invention consists of so forшning the knobs or handles that they will
turn in the rose, and the rose is fixed by means of a screw and nut. For this
purpose the stems or shanks of the knobs or handles are formed with flanches
or projections, which fit into and revolve in grooves or hollows formed in the
roses; by which, when a rose attached to a knob or handle is fixed or held,
the knob or handle can turn freely; and the rose is fixed to the door or other
surface by a tube, with a screw thereon, which is fixed to the rose, and this
screw receives and is fixed by a screw nut. The spindle of the lock passes
through the tube, which is affixed to the rose, and into a square socket in
the stem of the handle or knob; by which combination of parts the fixing of
the spindle to the knob or handle is rendered unnecessary...

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows two knobs fixed according to my Invention. The knobs in
this case being of china, they have a metal socket fixed into the interior of their
stems or shanks. a, a, are the two knobs, one of them being shewn in section;
6 is the spindle of a mortise lock; c, c, are the roses, which are each formed
with a projection c¹, to receive the end of the stem or shank of the knob, which
is formed with a flanch or projecting edge a'; and the projection c¹ of the rose
is burnished down, so as to overlap the edge of the flanch or projection a', and
thus form a recess for the flanch a', as shewn, but in such manner that the
knob may turn freely in the hollow thus formed in the rose when such rose is
fixed or held to a door. The roses c may be of metal, as shewn; or they may
be partly formed of wood or ivory, or other material, as shown by Figure 3,
and by dotted lines in Figure 1. The rose c is also formed with a tube c", the
exterior of which is cut with a screw so as to screw into the screw nut d. The
screw nut consists of a plate, and a tube with a screw cut on the interior, and
the nut is so formed, that when the mortice has been cut in a door to receive
a lock, and a hole has been formed for the passage of the spindle, the nut may
be passed into the mortice, and the tubular portion passed through the hole,
and in this manner is the rose fixed to the door. The ends of the spindle
which enter the stems or shanks of the knobs are square, and the hollow metal
linings or sockets in the knobs are square on the interior; hence, when a
knob or handle is turned the spindle will be turned, and this without any
fixing of the knobs to the spindle, the fixing of the knobs to the spindles
being rendered unnecessary by reason of the knobs being attached to the
roses. The details by which my Invention may be carried into effect may be
varied, and it is desirable in some cases that they should be varied, according
to the materials used in making the knobs and roses. Figure 2 shows a brass
knob attached to a rose in a similar manner to that shown in Figure 1, but in
this arrangement no additional socket or lining of the stem is necessary.
Figure 3 shows two knobs a, a, of wood applied to a spindle b. In this case
there is an internal socket or lining of metal to each knob or handle, which is
fixed in the knob by means of an external screw formed on the lining or socket,
and in this arrangement each knob is attached to part of its rose by means of
a protruding flanch a' formed on the socket or lining, which is received into a
recess formed in the tube, by which the rose is fixed to a door; in other respects
the parts are for the most part similar to what are shewn and described in

page_text: respect to Figure 1, there being a ring e interposed between the flanch and
the burnished or turned-down edge of the recess which receives the flanch.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not claim any
of the parts separately; but what I claim is, the mode herein described of
combining the knobs or handles of locks with the roses, and the roses with
the doors.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Kennard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JOHN EDKINS.
WILLIAM KENNARD. (L.B.)