AN IMPROVED HANDLE FOR SAUCEPANS AND OTHER CULINARY OR SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Enoch Baldwin, of the firm of Baldwin, Son, & Co.,
of Stourport in the County of Worcester for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Enoch Baldwin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd November 1882.
ENOCH BALDWIN of the firm of Baldwin Son and Co of Stourport in the
County of Worcester. " AN IMPROVED HANDLE FOR SAUCEPANS AND OTHER
CULINARY OR SIMILAR VESSELS
"
My invention relates to an improved handle chiefly designed for saucepans,
stew-pans, and similar culinary vessels but also applicable to other vessels to which
handles of the description hereinafter described are applicable.
The handles which my invention is designed to improve are those which are
secured at one end to the saucepan or other vessel and project therefrom
tangentially. These handles as ordinarily made consist of a piece of metal curved
so as to form a tubular piece which is generally left open at its free end, that is to
say, the end not secured to the saucepan, and my invention consists in forming the
metal of which the handle is made, at this free end, in such a manner that there
will be a bead or projection, that is to say, the handle, instead of terminating with
a plain edge as is the case when the metal is merely carved to form a tube, and so
left, will have at its end a smooth rounded projection. This projection is made by
causing the metal at the end of the handle to extend outward in such a mauner
that the ring thus formed is half round in transverse section and hollow. The
said projection provides means for preventing the saucepan from slipping out of the
band of the person using the same, and being made of the metal which forms the
handle, does not add to the weight nor present the roughness which is found to
exist when a separate piece is welded or otherwise secured thereon.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Enoch Baldwin in-the-Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th May
1883.
ENOCH BALDWIN, of the firm of Baldwin, Son and Co., of Stourport, in the
County of Worcester, "AN IMPROVED HANDLE FOR SAUCEPANS AND
CULINARY OR SIMILAR VESSELS."
OTHER
My invention relates to an improved handle chiefly designed for saucepans,
stew-pans and the like, but also applicable to other vessels.
The handles which my invention is designed to improve are those which are
secured at one end to the saucepan or other vessel and project radially
therefrom.
In order that my said invention may be readily understood I have illustrated in
the accompanying drawing a handle as heretofore made and also one of my
improved handles.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a saucepan having a handle as
ordinarily made.
Figure 2 is a similar view of a saucepan provided with my improved handle.
These handles, as ordinarily made, consist of a piece of metal curved so as to
form a tubular piece a which is generally left open at its free end as shown, and
- my invention, consists in forming the metal of which the handle is made, at the
free end, in such a manner that there will be a bead or projection b around the
end of the handle, that is to say, the handle, instead of terminating with a plain
edge (as is the case when the metal is merely curved to form a tube and so left)
will have at its end a smooth rounded projection. This projection is made by
causing the metal at the end of the handle to extend or bulge outward in such a
manner that the ring thus formed is half round in transverse section and hollow.
The projection b serves to prevent the saucepan from slipping out of the hand of
the person using the same, and, being made of the metal which forms the handle,
does not add to the weight thereof, nor does it present the roughness which exists
when a separate piece is welded or otherwise secured thereon.
Having thus fully described my said invention and the manner of performing
the same I wish it understood that I claim :-
The improved handle for saucepans or other vessels, formed with the projection
or bead as above set forth, for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof I the said Enoch Baldwin have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three
ENOCH BALDWIN (L.S.)