Improvements in Coffin Handles and other like Handles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles and other like Handles.
We INGALL PARSONS, CLIVE AND COMPANY LIMITED, of Warwick
Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coffin Furniture
Manufacturers, and, SAMUEL Wood of Summerfield Villa, Blenheim Road,
Moseley, near Birmingham, aforesaid Manager of Works do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention relates to such coffin handles and other like handles as are
connected to the coffin or article by an ornamental boss which has a cylindrical pin
or axis passing through or crossing it as a diameter the ends of which pin or axis
take into the ends of the handle, the handle turning on the said ends of the pin
or axis.
The said handles as ordinarily made have the defect that the cylindrical pin or
axis although cast in the ornamental boss is liable to a sliding or longitudinal
motion in the said boss and the object of the said invention is principally to prevent
the said motion and to obviate the inconveniences arising therefrom.
In order to effect this we make in the said pin or axis and preferably at its
middle a depression on one side of the said pin in which depression the holdfast is
made to seat itself in the mould before the boss is cast upon the pin or axis and
holdfast: The said depression also serves as a guide in introducing the holdfast
into the casting mould.
When it is desired to attach the handle to the coffin or article by means of a
screw or bolt passing through the centre of the boss instead of the forked clinching
holdfast pin usually employed we make a ring in the middle of the pin or axis
through which ring the fixing central screw or bolt passes. Or we make the pin or
axis of strong wire of the kind ordinarily employed, but instead of employing a
straight piece of wire we bend the wire at its middle into a nearly semi-circular
figure. When a pin or axis of this kind is fixed by the casting process in the
ornamental boss it is incapable of a sliding motion and permits of the use of a
central fixing screw or bolt.
Dated the 8th day of August 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles and other like Handles,
We, INGALL, PARSONS, CLIVE AND COMPANY LIMITED, of Warwick
Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturers, and SAMUEL WOOD, of Summerfield Villa, -Blenheim
Road, Moseley, near Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Works, do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The said invention relates to such coffin handles and other like handles as are
connected to the coffin or article by an ornamental boss which has a cylindrical
pin or axis passing through or crossing it as a diameter the ends of which pin or
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page_text: axis take into the eas of the handle, the handle turning on the said ends of the
pin or axis.
The said handles as ordinarily made have the defect that the cylindrical pin or
axis although cast in the ornamental boss is liable to a sliding or longitudinal
motion in the said boss and the object of the said invention is principally to prevent
the said motion and to obviate the inconveniences arising therefrom.
In order to effect this we make in the said pin or axis and preferably at its
middle a depression on one side of the said pin in which depression the holdfast is
made to seat itself in the mould before the boss is cast upon the pin or axis and
_holdfast. The said depression also serves as a guide in introducing the holdfast
into the casting mould.
When it is desired to attach the handle to the coffin or article by means of a
screw or bolt passing through the centre of the boss instead of the forked clinching
hold fast pin usually employed we make a ring in the middle of the pin or axis
through which ring the fixing central screw or bolt passes. Or we make the pin
or axis of strong wire of the kind ordinarily employed, but instead of employing
a straight piece of wire we bend the wire at its middle into a nearly semi-circular
figure or such other figure as will admit of the passage of one or more fixing screws
or bolts through the boss. When a pin or axis of this kind is fixed by the casting
process in the ornamental boss it is incapable of a sliding motion and permits of
the use of one or more fixing screws or bolts.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation; Figure 2
in back elevation, partly in section, and Figure 3 in vertical cross section, a coffin
(or other like) handle in which the ornamental boss is connected to the coffin (or
other article) by a forked clinching holdfast, the cylindrical pin or axis crossing
the said boss and being secured thereto according to one of the arrangements of
this invention; Figure 4 represents the cylindrical pin or axis detached and
Figure 5 represents a cross section of the same taken through the depression or
neck at the middle of the pin or axis. In Figure 5 the position of the clinching
holdfast with respect to the cylindrical pin or axis before the boss is cast upon the
said pin or axis and holdfast is indicated in dotted lines.
a is the ornamental boss of the handle fixed to the coffin or other article by the
forked clinching holdfast b; c is the cylindrical pin or axis crossing the boss and
having at its middle, a depression or neck d; or in place of a depression or neck
extending all round the middle of the pin or axis, the latter may have a depression
on one side only. The said pin or axis c, d is so cast in the boss a, in the manner
herein after described, that it is incapable of a sliding motion in the said boss; e is
the handle turning on the ends of the fixed cylindrical pin or axis c.
d
In casting the boss a and connecting the cylindrical crossing pin or axis c, c,
and forked clinching boldfast & thereto, the said cylindrical pin or axis is introduced
into the mould in which the boss is to be cast, and the holdfast 6 made to seat
itself on or engage with one side of the depression d in the said axis as indicated
in dotted lines in Figure 5. The depression d serves as a guide in introducing the
holdfast into the mould. The cylindrical axis e and holdfast 6 having been
arranged in their proper relative positions in the mould, the boss a is cast upon
the said pin or axis and holdfast as represented in the drawing. By this arrange-
ment the cylindrical pin or axis c besides being firmly embedded at its middle in
the cast metal of the boss is prevented from sliding or having a longitudinal notion
in the said boss by the bend or base of the hold fast (which bend or base is
embedded and fixed in the cast metal) being engaged with the depression d in the
cylindrical pin or axis as will be understood by an examination of Figure 3.
The handle e is cast upon the ends of the cylindrical pin or axis c.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation; Figure 7 in back elevation (partly in
section) and Figure 8 in vertical cross section, a coffin (or other like) handle
fixed to the coffin or article by means of a screw or bolt passed through the
centre of the boss, the said handle being made according to this invention;
Figure 9 represents the pin or axis of the handle detached.

page_text: In this arrangement, we employ a ring at the middle of the pin or axis c, e-
through which ring and the hole g in the middle of the cast boss a the fixing-
central screw or bolt passes.
The ringed pin or axis c, f, c is placed in the mould and the metal cast upon the
said ring. By the casting process, the metal to form the boss is made to surround
the middle ring of the pin or axis and the said pin or axis is so fixed in the cast.
boss that it is incapable of a sliding motion therein, and permits of the use of a
central fixing screw or bolt. The handle e is cast on the ends of the pin or
axis e, f, e fixed in the boss and turns on the said pin or axis.
The central ringed pin or axis c, f, c may be made either by casting or of strong
wire. When made of strong wire, a straight piece of wire is taken and bent at
its middle or other part into a circular or nearly semi-circular figure or such other
figure as will permit of the passage of one or more fixing screws or bolts through
the boss, the metal of the cast boss surrounding the said bent part of the pin.
or axis and preventing the sliding of the said pin or axis in the boss as herein-
before described.
Coffin and other like handles made according to this invention are noiseless or
practically noiseless in use and besides are very secure inasmuch as should the boss.
be accidentally broken in fixing it to the coffin or article, the handle proper remains
fixed in its place in consequence of the pin or axis on which the said handle turns.
being securely held either by the clinching hold fast or by one or more screws.
or bolts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim.
as the said invention ;-
First. The improvement in coffin and other like handles in which the connecting
boss of the handle is attached to the coffin or article by a forked clinching holdfast.
or pin hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the
accompanying drawing; that is to say, preventing the sliding or horizontal motion,
of the cylindrical pin or axis, on the ends of which the handle turns, in the
connecting boss by engaging the bend or base of the clinching holdfast with a
depression or neck at the middle of the said pin or axis before the boss is cast upon
the said pin or axis and holdfast substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. The improvement in coffin and other like handles in which the
connecting boss is fixed to the coffin or article by means of one or more screws or
bolts passed through the said boss herein before described and illustrated
in Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawing; that is to say, providing
the pin or axis on the ends of which the handle turns, with a ring or semi-circular-
bend or a bend or part of such other figure as will permit of the passage of one
or more fixing screws or bolts through the boss around which ring or bent part of
the pin or axis the metal of the connecting boss is cast, thereby preventing the
sliding or longitudinal motion of the said pin or axis in the boss substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-first day of April 1894.