Improvements in Means of Attaching and Mounting Bail Handles of Cast Metal Hollow-ware Utensils.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means of Attaching and Mounting Bail Handles of
Cast Metal Hollow-ware Utensils.
We, JOSEPH MILLINGTON, of the firm of Thomas Sheldon and Company, of Spring-
vale Foundry, Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, hollow-ware manufacturers,
and JOHN CLARK, pattern turner in the employment of the said firm, 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:--
Bail handles, as usually employed for cast metal hollow-ware utensils, are required
to be supported in a horizontal, or approximately horizontal, position when not in use,
so as to prevent their resting against the utensil, and thus making them inconvenient
for being grasped by the hand more especially when the utensil is hot; and what are
termed stop-bail handles are mounted so that they cannot be turned in one
direction beyond a vertical, or approximately vertical, position so as to facilitate the
handling of the vessel in pouring out its contents. A handle as usually made for these
purposes is formed with projections or spurs which come in contact with a portion of
the mounting and thus form a stop in either direction to its movement. Theso
projections or spurs are welded upon the handle, which is consequently expensive in
manufacture compared with a handle which is manufactured by inerely bending into
shape a plain length of bar or rod without any portion being welded thereto.
Now, the object of this invention is to attach and mount the handles in such manner
that they may be stopped in a suitable position in either or both directions of their
movement, and yet be manufactured by simply bending into shape a length of bar or
rod of uniform section.
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The means by which this invention is accomplished are clearly shown by the
drawings herewith, to which reference is made in the following description..
Figure 1 is a side elevation shewing a modification of this invention according to
which an end of a bail handle A is-attached to an ear or lug B of a cast metal hollow-
ware utensil C. Figure 2 is a plan of the ear B and of a portion of the rim. of the
utensil C. The end of the handle is formed first into an open eye or hook, as shewn.
by detached view figure 1º, and such end is then hooked over a part a of the ear and
the eye is closed up and the handle thus secured in place. An enlargement b is formed
on the outer end of the ear, and conceals the outer face of the eye and prevents.it
from slipping or being sprung off the part a; and a guard e is carried round from one
side of the enlarged end b and joins the body of the utensil in such manner, as shewn,
as to leave a clear space d between itself and the part a for the metal of the eye.
This guard forms a stop to the downward movement of the handle in one direction. A
corresponding ear is formed on the other side of the utensil, as shown in reduced
scale plan, figure 3, of the entire utensil, and the other end of the handle is formed and
attached to such ear in the manner in which the first-mentioned end is attached to its
ear, but the guard c is formed out in the opposite direction, as shewn, to the guard c
previously described, and thus forms a stop to the downward movement of the handle
in the opposite direction to that in which it is stopped by the first-mentioned guard.
Figures 4 and 5 shew, in sido elevation and vertical section, respectively, a variation
of the modification above described so as to adapt it for the purpose of a "stop-bail"
handle. This is accomplished by carrying one of the guards c in an upward, or
upwardly inclined direction, as shewn, and thus preventing the handle A from being
moved in one direction beyond a vertical, or approximately vertical, position.
Figures 6 and 7 shew, in side elevation and plan, respectively, a further modification
of this invention for use in the case of a stop-bail handle, but which may be readily
varied, as hereinafter described, to adapt it to the case in which a bail handle is

page_text: required to be stopped in each direction in a horizontal, or approximately horizontal,
position. In both views the handle is shewn in a horizontal position, and its vertical
position is indicated by broken lines, figure 6. In this modification an ear B'is
formed on each side of the utensil and has a part a¹ around which the eye of the
handle is passed, an enlarged part or collar b' (preferably cast solid with the remainder
of the ear, to retain the eye in position sideways), and a shoulder e against the side
of the utensil in the edge of which is an elongated concentrically curved notch f
forming an abutment at each end. Each end of the handle is formed first as an open
eye or hook having the extreme end of the metal simply bent sideways to form a stud
or pin g, and is then passed around the part a' of the car, with the stud g within the
notch, after which the eye is closed up. The abutments at the ends of the notch
form a stop in each direction to the movement of the handle. The abutments are
shewn in the illustrations to stop the handle in a vertical position in one direction, and
in a horizontal position in the other direction; but the notch may be of such length,
as will be obvious, as to stop the handle in a horizontal position in either direction, if
desired. Figure 8 is a corresponding view to figure 6, but shews the ear as a section
taken through the part a', with the handle removed.
The ears employed, according to either modification above described, may be cast in
chills einbedded in the mould in which the body of the utensil is cast, in a manner
which will be well understood by persons skilled in the art of hollow-ware founding.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improved means, substantially as described and shewn, by which a bail
handle, of a cast metal hollowware utensil, which has been manufactured by simply
bending into shape a length of bar or rod, is attached to such utensil and mounted
thereon, that is to say, by first forming its ends as open eyes or hooks, then hooking
them around ears cast solid with and projecting from the utensil on each side, and then
closing them up, such ears being formed with guards to act as stops to the movement
of the handle in either direction, or (alternatively) the unjointed ends of the eyes
being turned sideways to form studs which enter suitable curved notches the ends of
which form stops to the studs, the eyes being prevented from slipping off the cars by
enlarged ends or collars formed, preferably, solid with the ears.
2. An ear B, having a part a around which an eye of a bail handle may be passed,
and a. guard c to act as a stop in one direction to the movement of the handle; such
ear being cast solid with a hollowware utensil, substantially as described and shewn.
3. An eye of a bail bandle for a cast metal hollowware utensil formed by the
metal being bent round but not welded, the unjointed end being bent sideways to
form a stud, substantially as described for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 18th day of Inl. 1800