Improvements in and connected with Devices for Fixing Handles,. Spokes, Shafts, and the like in their Sockets to enable their Easy Removal when necessary.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Devices for Fixing Handles,.
Spokes, Shafts, and the like in their Sockets to enable their
Easy Removal when necessary.
DALE MARSHALL, General Engineer, 23, Bennington Street, Cheltenham,.
JOHN GARDNER General Engineer 23 Bennington Street Cheltenham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A collar made of one or many pieces of a suitable length diameter & shape as
particularly convenient for the said purpose, which aforesaid collar shall be
composed of a flexible material, preferably metal, of a convenient and suitable
section, of equal or varying thickness, and the aforementioned collar shall have on,
one or all sides, as most convenient, screw like corrugations of suitable shape &
length. The aforesaid collar shall be provided with a projection of convenient
shape & form at any convenient part of its periphery, which will cut the handle,
spoke, or shaft to a suitable size necessary, to expand the aforementioned collar
by inserting it therein, which expansion is partly arrested by the sides of hole in
which the collar is inserted. (The hole here mentioned, which is generally
provided or made in the articles requiring handles spokes or shafts we purpose
using to insert the aforementioned collar in.) The continued expansion causing
the corrugations in the aforementioned collar to force their way into the sides of
hole, at the same time, similar impressions being made on the handle, spoke, or
shaft, by corrugations on the inside of aforementioned collar.
These impressions with medium of aforementioned collar make fast the handle
spoke or shaft & the like in their socket.
Dated this 29th day of July 1893.
DALE MARSHALL.
JOHN GARDNER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Devices for Fixing Handles,
Spokes, Shafts, and the like in their Sockets to enable their
Easy Removal when necessary.
We DALE MARSHALL, General Engineer 23 Bennington Street, Cheltenham
and JOHN GARDNER, General Engineer, 23 Bennington Street, Cheltenham, 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 :-
This invention has reference to an improved device for firmly securing handles,
spokes, wooden hammer shafts and the like in their sockets and at the same time
enabling them to be easily and expeditiously removed when required.
In order that our invention may be readily understood we have illustrated the
same on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 represents a collar or ferrule constructed according to our invention
and
Fig. 2 is section of same taken through the line a-b.
The collar or ferrule A which is made of metal of a suitable gauge or thickness
is split and is formed with a number of screw like corrugations and a number of
A

page_text: slots B or equivalent cut in the part above the corrugations. One edge of each of
the said slots B being forced inwards as shewn at Fig. 2 so as to protrude on
the inner face of the said collar or ferrule A, or inwardly projecting pieces may
be provided in any other suitable manner.
It will be easily understood that when the handle, spoke or shaft is inserted in
the collar or ferrule A and twisted around (which said collar or ferrule A has been
previously inserted in the hole or socket usually provided in articles to which
handles, spokes or shafts are required to be fastened) the projections B will cut
the said handle, spoke or shaft to a suitable size, the handle spoke or shaft at the
same time causing the collar or ferrule A to expand, which expansion causes the
corrugations formed on the said collar or ferrule A to force themselves into
the sides of the said hole or socket, the said corrugations at the same time forming
similar impressions on the end of the handle, spoke or shaft, by which means the
said handle, spoke or shaft is firmly and securely fastened into its socket but can
be easily and readily detached when required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we would have it understood
that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details as herein shewn and
described as they may be varied without departing from the nature of our said
invention, but what what we wish to claim is :-
.
The means substantially as herein shewu and described for securing handles,
spokes, shafts and the like in their sockets so as to enable them to be easily and
readily detached.
Dated this 18th day of April 189.1.
DALE MARSHALL.
JOHN GARDNER.