AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FIXING OR MOUNTING METALLIC HANDLES OR BAILS ON ARTICLES OF EARTHENWARE, CHINA, GLASS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1885

page_text: I, ERNEST DE PASS, of 68 Fleet Street in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF FIXING OR MOUNTING METALLIC HANDLES OR BAILS ON
ARTICLES OF EARTHENWARE, CHINA, GLASS AND THE LIKE, communicated to me
from abroad by Victor Naudot, of 1, Boulevard Saint-Denis, Paris, France, China
merchant, to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a method of fixing or mounting metallic handles
or bails on articles of earthenware, china, glass and the like, used on a fire or not
Bo-used..
.
According to this invention, the body of the ceramic, or other article, is, at one
or more points of its height, provided circumferentially with a groove, for the
purpose of receiving an encircling ring or hoop which may be very quickly and
conveniently connected to the metallic handle.
In one arrangement the body of the article, is provided circumferentially with a
groove into which is inserted a split metallic ring or hoop terminating in two
semi-circular projecting pins, each of which is made to form one half of a screw,
and on to which screw the handle is fixed by means of a nut tightened up against
a boss formed at the end of the metallic handle. Through this boss the two part
screw is passed. Thus in order to fix the handle to the article it is sufficient to
place the ring into the groove, bring the two half screws together, introduce them
through the hole in the boss, (said hole being made conical at the entering part) and
then to screw on the nut and tighten it up against the boss.
For fixing a similar handle on to a ceramic cupel, such as is used in chenical
laboratories, the form of handle above described is here replaced by a handle termi-
nating in a grooved base provided with a swelling. In a hole, which passes through
this swelling, the half screws, formed at the ends of the split ring, are brought
together and are secured by a nut.

page_text: In the application of the same parts of the invention to a jug of earthenware,
glass, &c, or to a drinking glass, the two ends of the handle are fixed to two rings
which encircle the article.
Handles fixed in accordance with this Invention may be provided with insulating
mountings of bone, wood, ivory &c.
I, ERNEST DE PASS, of 68 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, 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, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:
This Invention has for its object a method of fixing or mounting metallic
handles or bails on articles of earthenware, china, glass and the like, whether used
on a fire or not.
According to this invention the body of the ceramic or other article is provided
circumferentially, at one or more points of its height, with a groove for the purpose
of receiving a clamping ring or hoop which can be quickly and conveniently connected
to the metallic handle.
In the accompanying drawings various specimens of ceramic and glass articles:
are shewn provided with handles or bails in accordance with this invention.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 illustrate both in a disconnected and connected form the
several parts which constitute the mounting of a metallic handle, of the kind
referred to, on a porcelain saucepan.
As hereinbefore stated, and as shewn in Fig. 5, the body a of the saucepan is
provided circumferentially with a groove b, in which is located a metallic ring or
hoop c (Fig. 2) split at d, where the two ends ff of the said ring are bent back at
right angles, each end forming one half of a screw to which the handle is fixed, by
means of a nut g, tightened up against a boss h, terminating the splayed extremity
of the said metallic handle, fig. 4.. Thus, in order to fix the handle to the article,
it is sufficient to place the ring c in the groove b, to bring the two half screws f,f,
together, to introduce them through the hole in the boss h, (said hole being made

page_text: conical at the entering part) and then to screw on the nut until it is tightly pressed.
against the boss.
This method of fixing, as is shewn, is very firm and is extremely simple.
Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 refer to the fixing of a similar handle upon a ceramic capsule,
such as is used in chemical laboratories. Like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts in these and in the hereinbefore mentioned figures.
The form of handle above described may be here replaced by the handle j, which
terminates in two sockets i, provided with a boss h, and a splayed extremity. In
the hole formed through these sockets, the half screws f, f, contrived at the ends of
the split ring c, are brought together, and are secured by the nuts g, g.
Figs. 13, 14, 15 and 16, illustrate the application of the same parts of the
invention, designated by like letters of reference, to a jug and to a ewer of
earthenware, glass, and the like. In this case, the two ends of the handle j, are
fixed to two rings c.
In figs. 17, 18, 19 and 20, a similar method is represented as applied to a
drinking-glass.
In figs. 21, 22, 23 and 24, a similar method is represented as applied to a large
sized pitcher.
Handles mounted or fixed in accordance with this invention may be protected
by coverings composed of any material which is a bad conductor of heat, such as
bone, wood, ivory, porcelain.
Having now described the nature of this invention, and the manner in which the
same may be performed, I declare that I claim, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent :-
The method of fixing or mounting metallic handles or bails upon all kind of
ceramic, glass, and other articles, substantially as hereinbefore described, and as
shewn in the drawings.