Improved Means for Use in Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles to Cast Metal Hollow-ware.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Use in Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles
to Cast Metal Hollow-ware.
We, JOSEPH MILLINGTON, of the Firm of Thomas Sheldon and Company,
Spring Valo Foundry near Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, Cast Iron
Hollow-ware Manufacturers and General Ironfounders, and JOSEPH SILAW BAKER,
of the same address, Pattern Maker in the employment of the said firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A demand has arisen, in recent years, for sheet metal tubular handles of cast
metal saucepans and other hollow-ware utensils to be packed detached from the
bodies thereof, for the purpose of reducing bulk compared with hollow-ware
packed with the handles fixed, and of effecting, consequently, a corresponding
saving in the cost of cases, and, when the goods are to be sent by sea, in the cost
of transport also; and various methods have been devised for enabling an
unskilled person to fix the handles to the bodies of the utensils, so that the
handles may be readily fixed at the distributing depôt, or by the ultimate
purchaser.
Now, this invention has for its object improved means for use in fixing the
handles within handle sockets of the utensils, which avoid the use of loose parts
such as are liable to become lost in transit and to give trouble in putting them
into place, and which render the operation extremely simple so that an unskilled
person can most readily accomplish it, and which ensure thorough security of
fixture.
According to this invention, the inner end of a sheet metal tubular handle
of a cast metal hollow-ware utensil has a tongue of metal formed to project
therefrom, preferably at the upper side, though it may be in any position around
the inner end of the handle. The utensil is formed, as is usual, with a socket
to receive the inner end of the handle, but the portion of the inner end of the
socket against which the tongue, aforesaid, comes when the handle is pushed
into the socket is shaped to cause the tongue to curl or bend inwards as the
handle is driven tightly into the socket, such as by blows struck by a mallet.
A shoulder or abutment, formed conveniently by a pin or bar which passes across
the inside of the socket, is in such position therein that as the handle is forced
into the socket and driven home therein the tongue, aforesaid, curls or bends
in immediately behind the shoulder or abutment and thus securely fixes the
handle in place.
The transverse pin or bar, when such is used to form the shoulder or abutment,
aforesaid, may of course be passed through a hole drilled transversely through
the socket, and be riveted to fix it in place; but it is preferred, for the sake of
economy in manufacture and neatness of appearance, and more especially for
the purpose of ensuring accuracy of position, to cast it into the socket, by carry-

page_text: ing it in the socket core with the ends projecting somewhat into the mould before
the metal is poured thereinto.
Dated this 14th day of December 1896.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.
Improved Means for Use in Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles
to Cast Metal Hollow-ware.
We, JOSEPI MILLINGTON, of the Firm of Thomas Sheldon and Company,
Spring Vale Foundry near Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, Cast Iron
Hollow-ware Manufacturers and General Ironfounders, and JOSEPHI SHAW BAKER,
of the same address, Patern Maker in the employment of the said firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described. and ascertained in and by the following
statement: -
A demand has arisen, in recent years, for sheet metal tubular handles of cast
metal saucepans and other hollow-ware utensils to be packed detached from the
bodies thereof, for the purpose of reducing bulk compared with hollow-ware
packed with the handles fixed, and of effecting, consequently, a corresponding
saving in the cost of cases, and, when the goods are to be sent by sea, in the cost
of transport also; and various methods have been devised for enabling an
unskilled person to fix the handles to the bodies of the utensils, so that the
hanlles may be readily fixed at the distributing depôt, or by the ultimate
purchaser.
Now, this invention has for its object improved means for use in fixing the
handles within handle sockets of the utensils, which avoid the use of loose parts
such as are liable to become lost in transit and to give trouble in putting them
into place, and which render the operation extremely simple so that an unskilled
person can most readily accomplish it by the aid of any heavy instrument such
as can be used as a hammer, and which ensure thorough security of fixture.
According to this invention, the inner end of a sheet metal tubular handle
of a cast metal hollow-ware utensil has a tongue of metal formed to project
therefrom, preferably at the upper side, though it may be in any position around
the inner end of the handle. The utensil is formed, as is usual, with a socket
to receive the inner end of the handle, but the portion of the inner end of the
socket against which the tongue, aforesaid, comes when the handle is pushed
into the socket is shaped to cause the tongue to curl or bend inwards as the
handle is driven tightly into the socket, such as by blows struck by a mallet.
A shoulder or abutment, formed conveniently by a pin or bar which passes across
the inside of the socket, is in such position therein that as the handle is forced
into the socket and driven home therein the tongue, aforesaid, curls or bends
in immediately behind the shoulder or abutment and thus securely fixes the
handle in place.
The transverse pin or bar, when such is used to form the shoulder or abutment,
aforesaid, may of course be passed through a hole drilled transversely through
the socket, and be riveted to fix it in place; but it is preferred, for the sake of
economy in manufacture and neatness of appearance, and more especially for
the purpose of ensuring accuracy of position, to cast it into the socket, by carry-
ing it in the socket core with the ends projecting somewhat into the mould before
the metal is poured thereinto.

page_text: In order that the invention may be clearly understood, we will proceed to
describe a practical application of the same by reference to the accompanying
drawings, of which Figure 1 is a vertical section through the upper portion of
one side of a saucepan shewing the handle socket and handle in longitudinal
section, the handle being shewn as securely fixed within the socket. Figure 2
is a longitudinal section through the handle prior to the same being fixed to the
utensil, and Figure 3 is a plan view of the handle. The handle is shewn in
each view, for convenience of illustration, as if a portion of the outer end thereof
were broken away.
The tongue a projects straight forwards from the inner end of the tubular
sheet metal handle A, as shewn by Figures 2 and 3, previously to the handle
being fixed within the socket B of the utensil. A round pin or bar b crosses
the interior of the socket B in the position shewn, that is to say, a short distance
from the upper side of the socket and at such distance from the inner end thereof
as shewn, as to just allow room for the tongue « to curl between it and the inner
end of the socket as the handle is driven into the socket. The upper corner
of the inner end of the socket is conveniently curved, as shewn, to facilitate the
curling of the tongue as the handle is driven in. To fix the handle A to
the socket B it is necessary simply to drive it down within the socket with the
tongue a at the upper side of the socket, and the tongue a thus curls round
behind the pin b and securely and firmly holds the handle. The tongue a is,
of course, formed as a projection from the inner end of the sheet metal blank
previously to the same being formed up into a tubular-shaped handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improved means for use in fixing a sheet metal tubular handle to a
cast metal hollow-ware utensil which consists of a tongue projecting from the
inner end of the handle and a fixed shoulder or abutment within the socket
behind which the tongue curls or bends inwards towards the axis of the socket
as the handle is forced into the socket and driven home therein, substantially as
described.
2. The improved means for use in fixing a sheet metal tubular handle to a
cast metal hollow-ware utensils substantially as described and shewn, by way of
example, by the drawings herewith.
Dated this 8th day of September 1897.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.