IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE HANDLES OF KETTLES SAUCEPAN COVERS WATERING CANS BUCKETS AND OTHER VESSELS AND ARTICLES
Year: 1885

page_text: 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 the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF THE HANDLES OF KETTLES SAUCEPAN COVERS WATERING CANS
BUCKETS AND OTHER VESSELS AND ARTICLES" to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in manufacturing the handles of kettles saucepan covers
buckets watering cans and other vessels and articles from sheet copper brass or iron
or other strong metal or alloy by the process or combination of processes herein.
after described.
We cut from sheet metal strips of the required length and having a width equal
to that of the flaps or connecting parts of the handles to be made and by cutting
tools or by shears we produce from each of the said strips a blank having at its ends
cross pieces of the shape of the flaps to be made the said blank somewhat resem-
bling the figure of the letter I. The ends of the body of the blank or those parts
which join the flaps are somewhat narrower than the other part. By means of
raising tools worked in a stamp or press we give to the body of the blank while in
the flat condition a trough form and produce a convex flute or corrugation in each
of the flaps to increase their rigidity. The trough shaped part of the blank is next
bent or fashioned by hand or by the use of shaping tools into a nearly bow shape
or into a semi-circular figure or other desired figure. The grip part and the sides
of the handle together with the flaps or fastening parts are thus made in one piece"
from sheet metal.
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When desirable the blank may be made wider at the middle or other part so that
by bending over the opposite sides of the said part the handle will be at that part.
barrel shaped or tubular.
By our invention the manufacture of the said handles is simplified.
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page_text: 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 :-
Our invention consists in manufacturing the handles of kettles saucepan covers
buckets watering cans and other vessels and articles from sheet copper, brass or
iron or other strong metal or alloy by the process or combination of processos herein
after described.
We cut from sheet metal strips of the required length and having a width equal
to or somewhat greater than that of the flaps or connecting parts of the handles to
be made and by cutting tools or by shears we produce from each of the said strips
a blank having at its ends cross pieces of the shape of the flaps to be made, the said
blank somewhat resembling the figure of the letter I. The ends of the body-of-the
blank or those parts which join the flaps are somewhat narrower than the other
part. By means of raising tools worked in a stamp or press we give to the body
of the blank while in the flat condition, a trough form and produce a convex flute
or corrugation in each of the flaps to increase their rigidity. The trough shaped
part of the blank is next bent or fashioned by hand or by the use of shaping tools
into a nearly bow shape or into a semi cireular figure or other desired figure. The
grip part and the sides of the handle together with the flaps or fastening parts are
thus made in one piece from sheet metal.
When desirable the blank may be made wider at the middle or other part so
that by bending over the opposite sides of the said part the handle will be at that
part barrel shaped or tubular.
By our invention the manufacture of the said handles is simplified.
In making a kettle handle according to our invention we cut from sheet copper
brass or iron or other strong metal or alloy strips of the kind represented in
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings and by cutting tools worked in a stamp or
press or by shears, we give to the strip Figure 1 the form represented in Figure 2.
That is to say we form at each end of the blank the flaps or cross pieces a, a by
which the finished handle is fastened to the body of the kettle and give the blank
between the flaps or cross pieces a, a the tapering figure represented, the middle of
the blank being widest and tapering towards each end as represented. The ends of
the flaps are next pierced. The flat and pierced blank Figure is next operated
upon by raising tools worked in a stamp or press so as to give the blank the form
represented in side elevation and front elevation in Figure 3. By the operation of
the said tools a trough form is given to the body b of the partly made handle and
the flaps a, a and the parts a³, a are at the same. time bent into the forms repre-
sented. The said pair of tools at the same time produces a convex flute or corruga-
tion c in each of the flaps a, a and the parts a², a² as represented in Figure 3. By

page_text: means of the corrugations or flutes o, c additional rigidity is iniparted to the
flaps a, a and parts a³, a³ of the handle. The trough shaped body b is next bent
or fashioned by hand on a properly shaped mandril or by the use of a pair of
shaping tools into the nearly bow shape represented in the finished handle shown
in side elevation in Figure 4; end elevation in Figure 5 and plan in Figure 6. By
the operations herein before described the grip, sides and flaps of the handle aro
made from one piece of sheet metal.
Instead of operating upon the whole of the blank by one pair of dies, only one
half of the blank may be operated upon so as to fashion one half in the manner
represented in Figure 3 after which the other half of the blank is similarly operated
upon and the partly made handle Figure 3 thus shaped at two operations instead
of one.
And instead of first troughing the body of the blank Figure 2 and bending
its ends as represented in Figure 3 the blank Figure 2 may be fashioned into the
finished handle Figures 4. 5 and 6 by the operation of a pair of shaping tools but
we prefer to give the blank the preliminary shaping represented in Figure 3 before
subjecting it to the final shaping operation.
In making a kettle handle having a barrel or tubular grip we proceed in the
following manner.
We take the sheet metal strip Figure 7 and cut from it the blank represented in
Figure 8 the body of the blank having at its middle the wide part 62. The blank
Figure 8 is next troughed and its ends bent so as to produce the partly made
handle Figure 9 the opposite sides of the wide part 6 being bent in opposite
directions. By operating upon the body of the partly made handle Figure 9 by
means of a pair of bending tools or by fashioning it upon a mandril by hand a
finished handle of the kind represented in side elevation in Figure 10 end elevation
in Figure 11 and plan in Figure 12 is produced, the grip part marked 6ª of the said
finished handle being barrel shaped or tubular.
The operations for the production of a handle having a barrel or tubular grip are
the same as those herein before described for the production of the trough handle
Figures 4, 5 and 6 the tools used for the bending operations being so modified as to
give the required shape to the wide part of the blank for forming the barrel or
tubular grip.
When the kettle handle has a middle grip made of metal or of wood china or
other non-metallic material, each of the sheet metal sides of the said handle is
made substantially as herein before described. with respect to the bow shaped
handle Figures 4, 5 and 6 but as only about one half of the said handle Figures 4. 5
and 6 has to be produced nearly half blanks are used.
In making the metallic sides of a handle of this kind we take strips of sheet
metal of the kind shown in Figure 13 and cut from it the blank represented in
Figure 14 so as to produce a tapering side piece d having at one end the flap a
and at the other end the grip connecting piece d². The blank Figure 14 having
been pierced at the flap a and piece d' is subjected to the action of one or more
pairs of shaping tools whereby the side d is troughed and shaped, the flap a
fashioned and corrugated at c and the connecting piece d² bent at right angles to
the side as represented in Figure 15. Figure 16 represents a handle made of.
two of the sides Figure 15 and the middle metallic or non metallic grip part c. In
connecting the sides d, d to the grip part e the upper ends d², d² of the side pieces
are passed onto screws at the ends of the grip part e and secured thereon by the
screwing home of the ornamental heads f, f
In making bandles for saucepan covers, watering cans, buckets, sad irons and
other vessels and articles we proceed in the manner hereinbefore described with
respect to a kettle handle the shape only of the handles being varied to suit the
particular articles with which they are to be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim

page_text: as our invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of the handles of kettles
saucepan covers, watering cans buckets and other vessels and articles"
First. Making handles having a trough shaped body each from a single piece or
blank of sheet copper brass iron or other strong metal or alloy by the process or
combination of processes herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5
and 6 of the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. Making handles having a barrel shaped or tubular grip each from a
single piece or blank of sheet copper brass iron or other strong metal or alloy by
the process or combination of processes herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 7. 8. 9. 10. 11 and 12 of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly. Making the sides of handles having a middle non metallic or metallic
grip each from a single piece or blank of sheet copper brass iron or other strong
metal or alloy by the process or combination of processes herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 13. 14. 15 and 16 of the accompanying Drawinga.
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Dated this Sixteenth day of February 1886