A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING HANDLES TO METALLIC TEA POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS, WHICH METHOD OF ATTACHMENT MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE FIXING OF CASTORS ON FURNITURE AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Spurrier, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ATTACHING HANDLES TO METALLIC TEA POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS,
WHICH METHOD OF ATTACHMENT MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE FIXING OF
CASTORS ON FURNITURE AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 6th May 1856, and dated the 26th January 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Spurrier at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th January 1856.
I, WILLIAM SPURRIER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW OB
IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING HANDLES TO METALLIC TEA POTS, AND OTHER
VESSELS, WHICH METHOD OF ATTACHMENT MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE FIXING OF
CASTORS ON FURNITURE, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
In attaching handles to metallic tea pots, and other vessels, according to my
Invention, I make a groove around that part of the end of the handle which is
inserted in the metal socket on the tea pot, or other vessel. The interior of
the said socket is slightly taper, and is formed of a piece of tubing slit in two
or three places, the inner end of the said tubing being opposite to the groove
in the handle, when the said handle is in its place. When the handle is placed

page_text: in the socket, and pushed therein with a gentle force, it expands and enters
the tapering slit tube, and when the groove in the handle is opposite to the
turned-in ends of the slit tubing; the said ends fall into and engage with the
said groove, and prevent the withdrawal of the handle. The construction I
have described is adopted at both ends of the handle, where both ends are
secured to the vessel. My method of fastening possesses the advantage that
the handle can be added to a tea pot, or other vessel, after the metal part is
completely finished, and thus avoid the soldering, which is necessary in the
ordinary method of attaching handles, and which disfigures and sometimes
discolours articles of plate. My method of atachment is also more economical
than the ordinary method. My Invention is also applicable to the attachment
of castors to articles of furniture, the handles of coffee pots, cups, vases, and
other such like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Spurrier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
***24th July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SPURRIER, of Birmingham, in the, County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Spurrier, Her special licence that I, the said William
Spurrier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
J, the said William Spurrier; 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
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF. ATTACHING HANDLES. TO METALLIC TEA. POTS,
AND: OTHER, VESSELS, WHICH METHOD OF ATTACHMENT MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE
FIXING OF CASTORS ON FURNITURE, AND OTHER, LIKE PURPOSES,"
upon the condition
(amongst others) that J, the said William Spurrier, my executors, or adminis
trators, by an instrument in writing under my or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly, describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal 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 Spurrier, do liereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of the method of attaching handles to vessels
herein-after described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; and the
application of the said method of attachment to other like purposes; I will
illustrate my Invention by describing its application to the attaching of the
wooden handle of a tea or coffee pot to the body of the said pot.
a, Figures 1 and 2, represents the non-metallic handle. I make a groove b
around that part of each end of the handle, which is to be inserted in the
metal sockets.c, c, on the tea or coffee pot. In the interior of the sockets
c, c, is a short tube d; d; the said tube is slit or notched in several places,
as represented at e, e, for the purpose of giving elasticity thereto. The
tube d is attached in the process of casting, or by soldering, or otherwise, to
the sockets c, c, and the slit ends of the said tube d; d, are curved inwards
as represented: The tube is represented separately at f, Figure 1; and'
the piece of metal, which by rolling up forms the tube, is represented at-g; in
Figure 1. The handle a is placed in the sockets c, c, and pushed therein with
sufficient force to make the part marked h expand the turned-in ends of the
tube d, d, and pass the said ends. When the groove.b.arrives at the turned-
in ends of the tube d, the said ends contract and engage in the said: groove b,
as will be understood by an examination of Figure 2. The handle 6 is thus
secured in the sockets c, c, and cannot be withdrawn therefrom.
My Invention is applicable to the fastening of handles of forms other than
cylindrical. Figure 3 illustrates the. application of my Invention to a flat
handle. In the said Figure 3, the handle is marked i, the groove k, the
socket into which the handle is to be fastened 7, and the tube which engages
in the groove is marked m. The said Figure 3 represents the several
parts in front view separately, and in side view (partly in section) combined.
Although I have described my Invention in connection with a handle
fastened at both ends, yet my said Invention is applicable to the attachment of
handles, when the said handles are attached only at one end, as will be under-
stood by reference to Figure 3. My method of fastening handles to metallic
vessels possesses the advantage that the handle can be added to a tea or coffee
pot, or other vessel, after the metallic part is completely finished.
The

page_text: necessity for soldering which has to be resorted to in the ordinary method of
attaching handles is avoided, and the discolouration which the said soldering
frequently occasions in articles of plate, is prevented. My method of attach-
ment is also more economical than the ordinary method.
My Invention is also applicable to the attachment of castors to articles of
furniture, as well as the attachment of handles to cups, vases, and other vessels,
and such like purposes. But, as I believe, my Invention will be fully under-
stood by the description of it herein-before given, I do not think it necessary
to describe and represent the various applications of my Invention, as the said
applications do not differ in any essential respect from the application already
described.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same.
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but
I claim as my Invention, the new or improved method of attaching handles to
metallic tea pots, and other vessels, and in the application of the said method
of attachment to the fixing of castors on furniture, and the other purposes to:
which the said method of attachment is or may be applicable, herein described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, causing the turned-
in ends of a slit tube in the interior of the socket, to which the handle or other
article is to be fastened, to engage in a groove or notch on the said handle
or other article.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Spurrier, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord'
..: One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM SPURRIER. (L.s.)