Improvements in Coffin Handles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles.
I, JAMES GORDON, of Horse Fair, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to coffin handles, which at present are commonly
made with a projecting hinge pin at each side engaging in the eyes of the two half
When these
round wire or other metal loops by which the handle is fixed.
projecting pins on the handles are made straight and of the same thickness
throughout as is usual they are liable to be pulled out of the handle loops which
defect it is the object of this invention to overcome.
According to one method of carrying out this invention I make each of the said
two hinge pins of the handle of a hooked form thereby. rendering it impossible for
the handle to be pulled out of the loops after the loops are fixed in place. More-
over by making the hinge pins of the handle of a hooked form I am enabled, when
using half round or other wire loops, to thread the loups on to the said hinge pins
without opening the shanks of the loops. The said hooked hinge pins may be made
of wire and laid in the mould so as to be cast to the handle; or they may (and
particularly in small handles) form parts of the handle castings; and the said hinge
pins may either be made as open hooks to permit of the handle loops being threaded
on or off as aforesaid, or the said hooked hinge pins may be closed round or cast or
otherwise formed as eyes to prevent the loops coming unthreaded.
The said hinge pins made in accordance with this invention may be arranged to
project outwardly from the sides of the handle to engage with the handle loops; or
the said hinge pins may project inwardly towards each other to engage with two
handle loops; or the said hinge pins may project from the top of the handle to
engage in handle loops fixed immediately above the same.
Dated this 25th day of November 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles.
I, JAMES GORDON, of Horse Fair, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, 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 has reference to coffin handles which at present are cominonly
made with a projecting hinge pin at each side engaging in the eyes of the two half
When these pro-
round wire or other metal loops by which the handle is fixed.
jecting pins on the handles are made straight and of the same thickness throughout
as is usual they are liable to be pulled out of the said handle loops which defect it
is the object of this invention to overcome.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which
Fig. 1 represents a coffin handle with its hinge pins formed according to this
invention and connected to two ordinary wire handle loops;
Fig. 2 illustrates a modified form of my invention the hinge pins being turned
inwardly towards each other;

page_text: Fig. 3 illustrates a slightly modified form of my invention;
Fig. 4 shews another method of forming the said hinge pins and
Fig. 5 illustrates a further modification of my invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
According to this invention I make each of the said two hinge pins a¹ a² of the
handle of a hooked form so as to pass right through the wire or other loops c¹ c²
as shewn thereby rendering it impossible for the handle to be pulled out of
the loops ce after the latter are fixed in place on the coffin. Moreover by
making the hinge pins a a² of the handle of a hooked form as above described I am
enabled to thread the wire loops el e² on to the hinge pins a¹ a without opening the
shanks of the loops.
The said hooked hinge pins a a² may as shewn in Fig. 4 be made of wire and
cast to the handle by being laid in the handle mould; or the said hooked hinge pins
may (and this is what I prefer) form parts of the handle castings as shewn in
Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 5; and the said hooked hinge pins a' a' may either be made as
open hooks as in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 to permit of the handle loops ec2 being
threaded on or off' as aforesaid; or the said hooked pins may as shewn in Fig. 5 be
closed round after the loops have been threaded thereon and thus form "eyes" to
prevent the loops becoming unthreaded.
The said hooked hinge pins a' a² may be arranged to project outwardly from the
sides of the handle as in Figs. 3 and 4 to engage with the handle loops; or as in
Fig. 2 the said hooked hinge pins a a² may project inwardly towards each other to
engage with the two handle loops; or the said hooked hinge pius a' a² may as in
Fig. 1 project from the top of the handle to engage in the handle loops c¹ c² fixed
immediately above the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
Making the hinge pins of a coffin handle of a hooked form passing right through
the handle loops so as to prevent the handle being pulled out of the handle loops
after the same are fixed to the coffin the said hooked hinge pins being either left
open (Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4) or closed to form eyes (Fig. 5) substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore set forth and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of August 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.