US808533A - Furniture-handle. - Google Patents

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No. 808,533. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

G. FRANK.

FURNITURE HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.24, 1904.

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GUSTAV FRANK, OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS.

FURNITURE-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1904,- Serial No. 199,811.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV FRANK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jefferson, in the county of Marion and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Furniture- Handle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for securing handles of the kind which are known as drop-handles upon the drawers and other parts of furniture; and its object is to present a device of the class referred to which shall In the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view,-

and Fig. 2 is a sectional view, of a portion of a furniture-drawer having a drop handle thereon with the improved device retaining the same in position. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of the inner connecting-plate detached.

Corresponding parts are indicated by like characters of reference throughout the several figures.

In the drawings is illustrated a portion of a drawer-front l0, to which a handle 11 is applied, said handle being of the ordinary type generally known as drop-handles, the same consisting of a yoke or bail having inturned ends that engage the eyes of a pair of eyebolts l2 13, which are extended through an escutcheon-plate 12 and through the body of the drawer-front. The escutcheon-plate is also provided with an annular flange 12 bearing against the drawer-front, whereby a degree of resiliency will be imparted to the body of said plate.

Upon the inner ends of the bolts is mounted a plate 16 of relatively thin'resilient metal having spaced apertures 17 18 to engage the bolts and provided adjacent to said apertures with struck-up resilient tongues 19 20, said tongues being formed between the apertures and faced in opposite directions toward the opposite edges of the plate. This plate having been adjusted upon the bolts, as shown, the nuts 14 15 are placed upon the bolts and tightened. When the nuts are turned forwardly, the tongues will be depressed by the corners of the nuts and spring outwardly adjacent to the sides of the same, thereby effectually preventing any backward turning of said nuts.

Much annoyance has been experienced by the nuts dropping ofl the bolts used to secure drop-handles in position, causing the said handles to become detached and oftentimes broken and lost. By this device, which may be produced at a very trifling expense, all danger of the nuts becoming detached is positively avoided.

When the nuts are tightened sufliciently, the eyes of the eyebolts will engage the resilient escutcheon-plate, which will thereby be tightened to force its edge or flange into positive engagement with the drawer-front and to prevent rattling.

Having thus described the invention, what i GUSTAV FRANK.

Witnesses:

ALLEN UR UHART, L. B. TODD.

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