Improvements in the Manufacture of Handles of Kettles, Saucepan Covers, Watering Cans, Buckets, Dust Bins, Sad Irons, and other Vessels and Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Handles of Kettles, Saucepan
Covers, Watering Cans, Buckets, Dust Bins, Sad Irons, and other
Vessels and Articles.
We WILLIAM TOPHAM and EDWARD SNUSHALL, both of No. 26, Oxford
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick Iron Plate Workers, and
Galvanizers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to manufacturing handles of kettles, saucepan covers,
watering cans, buckets, dust bins, sad irons and other vessels and articles, from
sheet copper, brass, iron, steel, or other sheet metal or alloy by the process or
processes hereafter described.
By our invention we are enabled to manufacture the aforesaid articles in a more
simple and efficient manner than heretofore, the cost of their production being
much reduced.
We will describe our invention as applied to the handle of a kettle.
We cut from sheet metal, strips of the required length and having a width equal
to that of the flaps or grip parts of the handles to be made.
We by cutting tools operated by a stamp, press or machine, produce from each
of the said strips a blank, the ends of which are formed into cross pieces, or flaps
by which the finished handle is fastened to the kettle. The blank from the cross
piece tapers towards the centre, the taper parts terminate into circular or semi-
circular parts, between the circular or semi-circular parts that is to say the body
of the blank widens out, which forms the grip part of the handle. By means of
raising tools worked by a stamp or press or suitable machine, we give the body of
the blank while in a flat condition a trough form and produce a convex flute or
corrugation in each of the taper parts, and the flaps to increase their rigidity, the
circular or semi-circular parts we prefer to leave flat.
We operate upon the body or troughed part of the partly made handle by means
of a pair of bending tools, by shaping or fashioning it upon a mandril, into a barrel
or tubular shape which constitutes the grip part of the handle.
The circular or semi-circular-parts we shape into a cup or other suitable form,
and impress a print having a hole in each centre.
The ends of the cross pieces or flaps are next pierced. The tapered corrugated
parts of the blank are bent or fashioned by shaping tools operated by means of a
stamp, press or machine into a nearly bow-shaped or into a semi-circular figure.
By the same operation the circular or semi-circular parts of the blank are bent
at right angles with the tubular or grip part of the handle aforesaid, the open
ends thereof being entirely covered or closed with the exception of the holes in
the centre, the function of which is to admit air for the purpose of keeping the
handle cool.
In making handles for saucepan covers, watering cans, buckets, dust bins, sad
irons, and other vessels and articles, we proceed in the manner hereinbefore
described with respect to a kettle handle, and vary the shape and configuration
of the bandle as circumstances may require to suit the particular article with which
they are to be used.
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1905
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Handles of Kettles, Saucepan
Covers, Watering Cans, Buckets, Dust Bins, Sad Irons, and other
Vessels and Articles.
We WILLIAM TOPHAM, and EDWARD SNUSHALL, both of No. 26 Oxford
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Iron Plate Workers, and
Galvanizers, 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 relates to manufacturing handles of kettles, saucepan covers,
watering cans, buckets, dust bins, sad irons and other vessels and articles, from
sheet copper, brass, iron, steel, or other sheet metal or alloy by the process or
processes hereafter described.
By our invention we are enabled to manufacture the aforesaid articles in a more
simple and efficient manner than heretofore, the cost of their production being
much reduced.
We will describe our invention as applied to the handle of a kettle.
We cut from sheet metal, strips of the required length and having a width equal
to that of the flaps or grip parts of the handles to be made.
We by cutting tools operated by a stamp press or machine produce from each of
the said slips a blank, the ends of which are formed into cross pieces, or flaps by
which the finished handle is fastened to the kettle. The blank from the cross piece
tapers towards the centre, the taper parts terminate into circular or semi-circular
parts, between the circular or semicircular parts that is to say, the body of the
blank, widens out, which forms the grip part of the handle. By means of raising
tools worked by a stamp or press or suitable machine, we give the body of the
blank while in a flat condition a trough form and produce a convex flute or corru-
gation in each of the taper parts, and the flaps to increase their rigidity, the
circular or semicircular parts, we prefer to leave flat.
We operate upon the body or troughed part of the partly made handle by means
of a pair of bending tools, by shaping or fashioning it upon a mandril, into a barrel
or tubular shape which constitutes the grip part of the handle.
The circular or semicircular parts we shape into a cup or other suitable form
and impress a print having a hole in each centre.
The ends of the cross pieces or flaps are next pierced.
The tapered corrugated parts of the blanks are bent or fashioned by shaping
tools operated by means of a stamp, press, or machine into a nearly bow shaped, or
into a semicircular figure.
By the same operation the circular, or semicircular parts of the blank are bent
at right angles with the tubular or grip part of the handles, aforesaid, the open
ends thereof being entirely covered, or closed with the exception of the holes in the
centre the function of which is to admit air for the purpose of keeping the handle
cool.
We will describe our invention by reference to the accompanying drawings the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figure 1 represents a strip of metal of the required length, by suitable cutting
tools we give to the said strip the form represented at Figure 2, having two cross
pieces or flaps A. A the taper parts B, B, and the semi-circular parts D, D,
E representing the body of the blank which forms the grip part of the finished
handle.
Figures 3, and 4 represent the aforesaid blank operated on by raising or other
tools worked in a stamp or press, which gives the taper parts B, B, the convex

page_text: flute, or corrugations for the purpose of giving rigidity thereto the same operation
giving to the said blank the bent form represented at Figure 4.
The ends of the flaps or cross pieces A, A, are afterwards pierced, also the semi-
circular parts D, D with the holes d, d, the prints b, b, are also produced by the
same operation.
Figures 5, 6, and 7 represent in front elevation and plan and end elevation the
partly formed handle in which the body E, has been operated on by bending tools,
or shaped on a mandril into the form represented at Figure 8, which as a section
taken on line c, d, by the same operation the parts B, & B, are bent into form
represented. By a further operation the body E is bent into the form shown in
section at Figure 9.
Figures, 10, 11, and 12, represents the partly formed handle, in front elevation
plan, and end elevation respectively, in which the body has been operated upon
and bent into a barrel or tubular shape forming the grip part of the handle shown
in section at Figure 13.
Figures 14, 15, and 16 represent in front elevation plan, and end elevation
respectively, the finished handle in which the semicircular parts D, D, have been
bent downwards and closed on the end of the barrel or tubular part of the handle,
the holes d, d, forming an air passage for admitting air thereto for the purpose of
keeping the handle cool.
In making handles for saucepan covers, water cans, buckets, dust bins, sad irons,
and other like vessels, and articles according to our invention we proceed in a
similar manner hereinbefore described with respect to a kettle handle, and vary
the shape and configuration of such handles as circumstances may require to suit
the particular articles to which they are to be attached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is ;-
1. The improvements in the manufacture of handles of kettles, saucepan covers,
watering cans, buckets, dust bins, sad irons, and other vessels and articles,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The improvements in the manufacture of handles for kettles and the like
from a single strip of sheet metal Figure 1, by the processes or combination of
processes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the various
figures of the accompanying drawings.
3. The improvements in the manufacture of handles for kettles and the like,
hereinbefore described, consisting of a barrel or tubular grip E having the closed
or partly closed ends D, D, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the several figures of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1895.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.