IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF POTS OR PANS, AND IN HANDLES FOR POTS OR PANS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frederick Clark, of Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Ironfounder, and Jonah Sanders, of Wolverhampton
aforesaid, Pattern Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN
KINDS OF POTS OR PANS, AND IN HANDLES FOR POTS OR PANS."
Sealed the 1st November 1878, and dated the 27th May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Frederick Clark and
Jonah Sanders at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th May
1878.
CHARLES FREDERICK CLARK, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Ironfounder, and JONAH SANDERS, of Wolverhampton aforesaid, Pattern Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF POTS OR PANS, AND IN HANDLES FOR
POTS OR PANS."
Our Invention has reference to pots or pans used for heating liquids, and for
cooking, and having cross or bail handles by which they are suspended.
In oval pots as ordinarily constructed, the bail handle is connected with the most
distant ends of the pot, that is, is jointed to the pot at the extremities of its longer
diameter. The difficulty of pouring out the heated contents of such a pot is well
known. By our Invention this difficulty is obviated, and the contents of the pot
may be poured out without the difficulty and danger of accident attendant on the
pouring out of the contents of such pots as they are ordinarily constructed.
In constructing an oval pot according to our Invention, we employ a suspending
handle of the kind known as a stop bail handle, that is, a handle capable of turning
through a quadrant, so as to lie on a level with the top of the pot on one side, and
be capable of being raised into a vertical position. But instead of connecting the
said stop bail handle with the pot by connecting its ends with the pot in the line of
its greatest diameter as is usual, we connect it with the pot in a direction at right
angles to the ordinary direction, that is, we connect the handle to the pot in the
direction of the shortest diameter of the pot. At cach end of the pot, that is, at or
about the points where in oval pots of the ordinary construction, the bail handle is

page_text: jointed, we form handles of the kind called jug handles, that is, handles having the
general figure and position of the handle of a jug, the said handles being situated
vertically when the pot is in its normal position.
By the combination of the stop bail handle crossing the oval pot in its shortest
diameter, with a jug or verticle handle at each end of the pot, the pouring out of
. the contents of the pot, and the manipulating of the pot generally, are rendered both
easy and certain.
The jug handles described for oval pots may either be formed of the same mass
of metal as the pot, and cast at the same time as the pot, or the said handles may
be formed separately, and affixed to the pot by rivetting or otherwise.
Jug handles of the kind and in the position described may be employed in con-
junction with bail handles connected to the pot in the ordinary position, that is,
connected to the pot in the direction of its longest diameter. In this case, the said
jug handles are used to connect the handle to the pot in place of the ordinary eyes,
the bail handle having hook-formed ends, so that the said ends may be hooked into
the jug handles and unhooked therefrom at pleasure.
Our Invention consists further of the following improvements in constructing
stop bail handles applicable to pots or pans generally.
We make the holes in the eyes at the ends of the bail handle circular or nearly
so, the said circular eyes working upon cylindrical pegs or axles cast on the sides of
the pot. The eyes of the handle are retained on their pegs or axles by rivetted
washers.
The stopping action of the handle by which the motion of the handle is limited
to a quadrant, is effected by making or forging on the inner face of the circular eye
of the bail handle, a stud or projection, and cutting away the lower portion of the
peg or axle on which the eye of the handle works, so as to form horizontal stops or
shoulders on opposite sides of the said peg or axle. When the circular eye of the
bail handle is placed upon the peg or axle, the inside stud or projection described is
Fituated, and works between the two stops or shoulders on the pot. When the
handle is turned down into a horizontal position, the inside stud on the eye bears
against one of the stops on the pot, and when the handle is raised into a vertical
position, the said inside stud bears against the stop on the opposite side of the peg
or axle on the pot.
Stop bail handles made according to our Invention are simple in construction,
and readily manufactured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Frederick Clark and Jonah Sanders in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd November 1878.
CHARLES FREDERICK CLARK, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Ironfounder, and JONAH SANDERS, of Wolverhampton aforesaid, Pattern Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF POTS OR PANS, AND IN HANDLES FOR
POTS OR PANS."
Our Invention has reference to pots or pans used for heating liquids, and for
cooking, and having cross or bail handles by which they are suspended.
In oval pots as ordinarily constructed, the bail handle is connected with the most
distant ends of the pot, that is, is jointed to the pot at the extremities of its longer
diameter. The difficulty of pouring out the heated contents of such a pot is well
known. By our Invention this difficulty is obviated, and the contents of the pot
may be poured out without the difficulty and danger of accident attendant on the
pouring out of the contents of such pots as they are ordinarily constructed.
In constructing an oval pot according to our Invention, we employ a suspending
handle of the kind known as a stop bail handle, that is, a handle capable of turning
through a quadrant so as to lie on a level with the top of the pot on one side, and
be capable of being raised into a vertical position. But instead of connecting the
said stop bail handle with the pot by connecting its ends with the pot in the line
of its greatest diameter as is usual, we connect it with the pot in a direction at
right angles to the ordinary direction, that is, we connect the handle to the pot in
the direction of the shortest diameter of the pot. At each end of the pot, that is; at
or about the points where in oval pots of the ordinary construction the bail handle
is jointed, we form handles of the kind called jug handles, that is, handles having
the general figure and position of the handle of a jug, the said handles being
situated vertically when the pot is in its normal position.
By the combination of the stop bail handle crossing the oval pot in its shortest
diameter, with a jug or vertical handle at each end of the pot, the pouring out of
the contents of the pot and the manipulating of the pot generally, are rendered both
easy and certain.
The jug handles described for oval pots may either be formed of the same mass
of metal as the pot, and cast at the same time as the pot, or the said handles may
be formed separately, and affixed to the pot by rivetting or otherwise.
Jug handles of the kind and in the position described may be employed in con-
junction with bail handles connected to the pot in the ordinary position, that is,
connected to the pot in the direction of its longest diameter. In this case, the said
jug handles are used to connect the handle to the pot in place of the ordinary eyes,
the bail handle having hook-formed ends, so that the said ends may be hooked into
the jug handles and unhooked therefrom at pleasure.
Our Invention consists further of the following improvements in constructing
stop bail handles applicable to pots or pans generally.
We make the holes in the eyes at the ends of the bail handle circular or nearly
so, the said circular eyes working upon cylindrical pegs or axles cast on the sides of
the pot. The eyes of the handle are retained on their pegs or axles by rivetted
washers.
The stopping action of the handle by which the motion of the handle is limited
to a quadrant, is effected by making or forging on the inner face of the circular eye
of the bail handle, a stud or projection, and cutting away the lower back portion of
the
peg or axle on which the eye of the handle works, so as to form horizontal
stops or shoulders on opposite sides of the said peg or axle. When the circular eye
of the bail handle is placed upon the peg or axle, the inside stud or projection
described is situated and works between the two stops or shoulders on the pot.
When the handle is turned down into a horizontal position, the inside stud on the

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eye bears against one of the stops on the pot, and when the handle is raised into a
vertical position, the said inside stud bears against the stop on the opposite side of
the peg or axle on the pot.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings
the manner in which our Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in perspective an oval pot having a stop bail handle and jug
handles arranged or combined according to our Invention.
And, Figure 2 represents the said pot raised in the act of pouring out its con-
tents.
a is the stop bail handle connected to the oval pot b in the direction of the
shortest diameter of the said pot, that is, the said stop bail handle a is connected to
the pot in a direction at right angles to that in which stop bail handles are ordinarily
connected; c, c, are the jug handles fixed or made at each end of the pot in the
places at which the bail handle is ordinarily jointed in oval pots. These jug handles
c, c, are situated vertically as seen in Figure 1, when the pot is in its normal
position, and when the stop bail handle a is turned down so as to lie nearly on a
'level with the top of the pot, as seen in Figure 1, the said bail handle rests on one
of the jug handles c, the said turned-down handle lying nearly close to the sides of
the pot so as to be out of the way.
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The manner in which the stop bail handle and one of the jug handles are grasped
by the hands for pouring out the contents of the pot is illustrated in Figure 2,
from which Figure 2 it will be seen that the manipulating of the pot by the use of
the said stop bail handle and jug handle is rendered very easy and certain.
Instead of using jug handles at the ends of the oval pot in conjunction with a
stop bail handle crossing the said pot at its shortest diameter, as illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2, jointed stop handles of the construction represented in Figure 2ª,
and marked x, may be employed. The said jointed stop handles are capable of
being turned down so as to lie close against the side of the pot, as indicated in
dotted lines in Figure 2ª when not required for pouring out the liquid, and of being
raised into the nearly upright position represented, when required to be grasped for
pouring out the liquid. One of these stop jointed handles is represented drawn to
a larger scale in Figure 2B, and part of the same in Figure 2°. Each handle a has
two outer knuckles y, and cast on the side of the pot is a middle knuckle y' which
is engaged between the outer knuckles y of the handle x, the said knuckles being
jointed together by a joint pin passed through them. Near the middle knuckle y
is a stop z, and between the two outer knuckles of the handle is a bridging bar y³,
which bar, when the handle is raised for use, bears against the stop z, and the
further motion of the handle is arrested, and the said handle is firmly supported in
its raised position during the pouring out of the liquid.
By using the jointed stop handles x, x, in conjunction with the bail handle a,
Figure 2, the pot occupies less room than when fixed; jug bandles are used in
consequence of the said jointed stop handles being capable of being turned down
'close to the outside of the pot. Jointed stop handles of the kind described may be
used at one or both sides of the pot in conjunction with a stop bail handle arranged
in the ordinary position, that is, crossing the longest direction of the pot, as illus-
trated in Figure 2D, where the stop bail handle is marked a, and the jointed stop
handles at the sides of the pot are marked x.
b
Figures 3 and 4 represent in perspective an oval pot 6 provided with jug handles
c, c, at the ends of the pot in conjunction with a bail handle d arranged in the
ordinary position, that is, crossing the longest direction of the pot. The bail handle
d has hooked-formed ends e, e, and each hooked end is provided with a stop f. By
means of the hooked ends e, e, the bail handle d may be hooked to the jug handles
c, c, as illustrated in Figure 3, or unhooked therefrom, as illustrated in Figure 4.
The said stops f. f, at the hooked ends e, e, of the handle d, prevent the handle from
moving beyond a semicircle, that is, when the handle d is turned down in one
direction, one of the stops f bears against one of the jug handles c, and prevents its
further motion, and when the handle d is turned down in the other direction, the

page_text: other stop strikes against the other jug handle c and prevents its further motion in
that direction, as will be understood by an examination of Figure 3.
During the motion of the handle d to turn it down, the stops f, f, are raised
above the jug handles c, c, to pass over them.
The jointed stop handles represented in connection with the pots, Figures 24 and
2D, may also be applied to the sides of the pot, represented in Figures 3 and 4, where
the stop bail handle is connected to jug handles at the ends of the pot.
Figure 5 represents in elevation a pot provided with a stop bail handle, the
stopping parts of which are constructed according to our Invention; Figures 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, represent one end of the bail handle and a portion of the pot
drawn of the full size, Figure 6 representing a front elevation, Figure.7 a front
elevation partly in section, and Figure 8 a cross section, showing the handle in an
upright position; Figure 9 represents in front elevation, and Figure 10 in section,
the handle turned down; Figure 11 represents a front elevation of a portion of the
pot with the bail handle removed.
i is the bail handle, and k the eyes on the ends of the same; is a stud or pro-
jection on the inner side of each eye k. The hole in each eye k is nearly circular.
On each side of the pot m a cylindrical peg or axle n is cast for the eye k of the
bail handle to work upon, the said eyes being retained on their pegs or axles n by
washers p fitted on the pins or rivets q, and rivetted in their places.
In Figures 6, 7, 9, and 10, the washer p is omitted. The pins or rivets q.are cast
in one piece with the pegs or axles n. The lower portion of the boss n² at the back
of the axle n is cut away, forming a quadrant-shaped opening r, in which opening
the stud or projection on the eye k of the bail handle works. The ends of the
quadrant opening r in the boss n² form stops or shoulders s, t, for the stud or pro-
jection to bear against. When the bail handle is turned down into a horizontal
position, as seen in Figures 9 and 10, the inner stud bears against the stop or
shoulder t of the opening r, and prevents the further motion of the said bail handle;
and when the bail handle is raised into a vertical position, as seen in Figures 5, 6,
7, and 8, the said inner stud bears against the stop 8 at the opposite end of the
opening r, and prevents the further motion of the said handle.
Stop bail handles made in the manner described may be applied to pots and pans
of various kinds, and whether the bail handle cross the pot or pan in its shortest or
longest direction. The said stop bail handles are simple in construction, and readily
manufactured.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we claim as our Invention
of improvements in certain kinds of pots or pans, and in the handles for pots or
pans,
First. The improvements in oval pots or pans herein-before described and illus-
trated in Figures 1, 2, 2A, 2B, and 20 of the accompanying Drawings, that is to say,
the combination of a handle of the kind known as a stop bail handle, crossing the
oval pot or pan in the direction of the shortest diameter, with handles of the kind
called jug handles, or with jointed stop handles of the construction described and
illustrated, situated at each end of the oval pot or pan, or at or about the points
where in oval pots or pans the bail handle is ordinarily jointed for the purpose, and
substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. The improvement in oval pots or pans herein-before described, and
illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying Drawings, that is to say, the
use of jug handles at the ends of the oval pot or pan for connecting the bail handle
to the said pot or pan, the said bail handle having hooked-formed ends which may
be hooked into the said jug handles, and unhooked therefrom at pleasure, substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
Thirdly. The improvements in the stopping parts of stop bail handles for pots or
pans herein-before described, and illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 of
the accompanying Drawings, that is to say, the construction and combination of the
nearly circular eye k on the end of the bail handle working on the cylindrical peg

page_text: or axle n on the side of the pot or pan, with an inner stud or projection l on the
said eye k, working in a quadrant-shaped opening or cut-away part r, made in the
boss n on the pot or pan for the purpose, and substantially as described and illus-
trated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Frederick Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
WILLIAM PRESTIDGE,
Tettenhall Wood,
Nr. Wolverhampton.
CHARLES FREDERICK CLARK. (LS)