Walter Kelata Kaye
Walter Kelata Kaye (c1856-1928) of Joseph Kaye and Sons
1928 Obituary [1]
WALTER KELITA KAYE was the son of the late Joseph Kaye and spent the whole of his life with the firm founded by his father, adding many notable inventions to those made by his father and effecting many improvements in those existing.
Mr. W. K. Kaye originated the method of serrating the top or upper portion of the seamless body of the well-known "K" valve oil-feeder, thus greatly adding to its strength by giving a larger soldering surface for securing the cover to the top of the oil-can body. This design was accepted by the Admiralty.
Mr. Kaye was also responsible for several improvements and patents in connexion with locks for mental hospitals and in safety catches for railway carriage doors, and he was the originator of a patent automatic fastener for the sliding doors of corridor trains, tram-cars, etc.
It is interesting to recall that Mr. Kaye was proud of the fact that his mortice locks were adopted for the doors of the extension of the Institution building in 1913.
He had been a Member of the Institution since 1904.
His death occurred on 21st May 1928 at the age of 72.