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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
GUSTAV FRANK, OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
FURNITURE-HANDLE.No. 808,533.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, GUsTAV FRANK, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Jefferson,
in the county of Marion and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Furniture-
Handle, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
This invention relates to devices for secur-
ing handles of the kind which are known as
10 "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
possess superior advantages in point of sim-
plicity, durability, and general efficiency.
15 With these ends in view the invention con-
sists in the improved construction and novel
arrangement and combination of parts which
will be hereinafter fully described, and par-
ticularly pointed out in the claim.
20 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
25 detail view of the inner connecting-plate de-
tached.
Corresponding parts are indicated by like
characters of reference throughout the several
figures.
30 In the drawings is illustrated a portion of
a drawer-front .10, 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 in-
35 turned ends that engage the eyes of a pair of
eyebolts 12 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',
40 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
45 having spaced apertures 17 18 to engage the
bolts and provided adjacent to said aperturesPatented Dec. 26, 1905.
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 hav- 50
int been adjusted upon the bolts, as shown,
the nuts 14 15 are placed upon the bolts and
tightened. When the nuts are turned for-
wardly, the tongues will be depressed by the
corners of the nuts and spring outwardly ad- 55
jacent to the sides of the same, thereby ef-
fectually preventing any backward turning
of said nuts.
Much annoyance has been experienced by
the nuts dropping off the bolts used to secure 6o
drop-handles in position, causing the said han-
dles to become detached and oftentimes broken
and lost. By this device, which may be pro-
duced at a very trifling expense, all danger
of the nuts becoming detached is positively 65
avoided.
When the nuts are tightened sufficiently,
the eyes of the eyebolts will engage the resili-
ent escutcheon-plate, which will thereby be
tightened to force its edge or flange into posi- 70
tive engagement with the drawer-front and
to prevent rattling.
Having thus described the invention, what
is claimed is-
A drawer-pull comprising a handle having 75
inturned ends, eyebolts engaging said inturned
ends and forming pivotal supporting means
for the handle, resilient supporting means for
the eyes of the eyebolts consisting of a flat
escutcheon-plate provided with a flange where- 8o
by said plate as a body will be supported upon
and spaced from the drawer to which the de-
vice is attached, nuts upon the eyebolts, and
resilient locking means for said nuts.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 85
my own I have hereto affixed my signature in
the presence of two witnesses.
GUSTAV FRANK.
Witnesses:
ALLEN URQUHART,
L. B. TODD.Specification of Letters Patent
Application filed March 24, 1904. Serial No. 199,811.
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Frank, Gustav. Furniture-Handle., patent, December 26, 1905; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514014/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.