Improvements in Drop Handles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1895--Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL. SE BOTE TUATION.
Improvements in Drop Handles.
We, HY. FEARNCOMBE & Co. LIMITED, of Phoenix Japan Works,
Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, Japanners and Workers in Tin
Plates, Brass and Copper and ABSALOM EVANS, Foreman at Phoenix Japan
Works, Wolverhampton aforesaid do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the construction and combination of parts
hereinafter described of the stop mechanism of drop handles; that is, the parts for
limiting the motion of the drop handle through a quadrant, the handle when raised
for use being arrested on reaching a horizontal position.
By constructing and arranging the parts of drop handles according to this
invention the stop mechanism is concealed, there is consequently no external
projections or obstructions on the handle and its brackets or bearings and the
unsightliness of the ordinary external stops is avoided.
Drop handles provided with our improved stop mechanism are specially applicable
to milk cans and metal boxes and vessels; but may also be applied generally to other
vessels and articles with which drop handles are or may be used.
Instead of using a cylindrical pivot or axis at each end of the drop handle on
which it turns as usual, we use a semi-cylindrical pivot or axis the flat side of each
pivot bearing against one or other of the concealed stops hereinafter described.
The concealed stops by which the motion of the handle is limited we form in the
fixed brackets or bearings in which the pivots of the handle turn, the said stops
being constructed in the following manner.
In each of the bosses of the fixed brackets is a hole about three fourths of which
is circular and the other portion angular in cross section the sides of the angular
part of the hole being situated at right angles to each other. One of the flat sides
of the angular part constitutes a vertical stop and the other flat side a horizontal
stop against one or other of which stops the flat part of the pivot of the
handle bears for limiting the motion of the said handle through a quadrant as
hereinafter described. The curved portion of the hole in the bracket has nearly
the same radius as that of the curved part of the semi-cylindrical pivot of the
handle, one end of the said hole being closed. The brackets of the handles are so
fixed to the vessel or article that the open ends of the holes therein are outwards
and the semi-cylindrical pivots of the handles are introduced into the said holes with
their flat sides bearing against one of the stops in each of the said holes. When
the brackets have been fixed the bandle is ready for use.
When the handle is in its hanging position the flat sides of the pivots bear
against the horizontal stops in the fixed brackets and when the handle is raised
through a quadrant into a horizontal position the flat sides of the pivots bear
against the vertical stops in the brackets and its further motion is thereby
arrested.
Dated this 30th day of April 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants:

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drop Handles.
We HY. FEARNCOMBE & Co. LIMITED of. Phoenix Japan Works,
Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, Japanners and Workers in Tin
Plates, Brass and Copper and ABSALOM EVANS, Foreman at Phoenix Japan
Works, Wolverhampton aforesaid 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 consists of the construction and combination of parts.
hereinafter described of the stop mechanism of drop handles that is, the parts for
limiting the motion of the drop handle to a quadrant, the handle when raised for
use being arrested on reaching a horizontal position.
By constructing and arranging the parts of drop handles according to this
invention, the stop mechanism is concealed, there is consequently no external
projections or obstructions on the handle and its brackets or bearings and the
unsightliness of the ordinary external stops is avoided.
Drop handles provided with our improved stop mechanism are specially applicable
to milk cans and metal boxes and vessels; but may also be applied generally to
other vessels and articles with which drop handles are or may be used.,
Instead of using a cylindrical pivot or axis at each end of the drop handle on
which it turns as usual, we use a semi-cylindrical pivot or axis, the flat side of
each pivot bearing against one or other of the concealed stops hereinafter
described.
The concealed stops by which the motion of the handle is limited we form in
the fixed brackets or bearings in which the pivots of the handle turn, the said stops
being constructed in the following manner.
In each of the bosses of the fixed brackets is a hole about three fourths of which
is circular and the other portion angular in cross section, the sides of the angular
part of the hole being situated at right angles to each other.
One of the flat
sides of the angular part constitutes a vertical stop and the other flat side a
horizontal stop against one or other of which stops the flat part of the pivot of the
handle bears for limiting the motion of the said handle to a quadrant as hereinafter
described. The curved portion of the hole in the bracket has nearly the same
radius as that of the curved part of the semi-cylindrical pivot of the handle, one
end of the said hole being closed. The brackets of the handles are so fixed to the
vessel or article that the open ends of the holes therein are outwards and the
semi-cylindrical pivots of the handles are introduced into the said holes with their
flat sides bearing against one of the stops in each of the said holes. When the
brackets have been. fixed the handle is ready for use.
When the handle is in its hanging position the flat sides of the pivots bear
against the horizontal stops in the fixed brackets and when the handle is raised
through a quadrant into a horizontal position the flat sides of the pivots bear
against the vertical stops and its further motion is thereby arrested. We will now
proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the manner in
which the said invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation (partly in vertical section) and Figure 2
in side elevation (partly in vertical section) a drop handle in its hanging position,
the concealed stop mechanism of which is constructed and arranged according to
this invention.
Figure 3 represents in plan (partly in horizontal section) and Figure 4 in end
elevation (partly in vertical section) the said drop handle in its raised or horizontal
position; Figure 5 represents the handle detached in front elevation and Figure 6
represents an inside elevation of the same looking towards one of the pivot ends;
Figure 7 represents one of the fixed brackets detached, drawn to a larger scale, and

page_text: Figures 8 and 9 represent the same exhibiting the flat side of the pivot of the handle
engaged with the vertical stop and horizontal stop respectively.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the drop handle having at each end a semi-cylindrical pivot or axis b for
bearing against one or other of the concealed stops; c, c are the fixed brackets or
bearings screwed at d, or otherwise fixed to the milk cane or other vessel or
article; fare the bosses of the said brackets, each boss being open at its outer
end and closed at its inner end as seen in the sectional parts of Figures 1 and 3.
In the said bosses the concealed stops are made by which the motion of the
handle through a quadrant is limited. In each boss is a hole about three fourths
of which is circular as represented at f (see Figures 7, and 9) and the other
portion is angular in cross section the sides g, h of the angular part of the hole
being situated at right angles to each other and extending from the open end t▸
near the closed end of each boss as seen in the sectional parts of Figures 1 and .
The flat side g constitutes the vertical stop and the other flat side h constitutes the
horizontal stop against one or other of which stops g or h the flat part of the
semi-cylindrical pivot b of the handle bears for limiting the motion of the handle t
a quadrant. That is to say, when the handle a is in its hanging position Figures 1, 2
and 9, the flat part of each of the pivots & bears against the horizontal stop in th
brackets and prevents the further motion of the handle in a downward direction ;
and when the handle a is in its raised or horizontal position Figures 3, 4 and 8,
the flat part of each of the pivots & bears against the vertical stop g and the further
upward motion of the handle is arrested. During the turning of the handle through
about a quadrant the curved portion of each pivot b bears against the curved
part of the hole in which it turns, the said curved part of the hole having
about the same radius as the said curved part of the pivot as will be understood by
an examination of the pivot of the handle in the two positions represented in
Figures 8 and 9. To fix the handle to the vessel or article the handle pivots b, b
are introduced into the open ends of the holes in the brackets c, c with the flat
sides of the said pivots bearing against one of the stops in the said holes and the
brackets c, c with their open ends outwards are then screwed (or otherwise fixed) to
the vessel or article as represented in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
It will be seen by an examination of the drawing that the stop mechanism is
concealed, there being no external projections or obstructions in the handle and
brackets which are common to stop handles of the ordinary kind.
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 :-
The improvements herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing in constructing the stop mechanism of drop handles; that is to say,
constructing concealed stop mechanism for the said handles by making the hole in
each of the bosses of the fixed brackets about three fourths circular and the other
portion angular in cross section and constituting the stops, and the combination with
the said concealed stops of handle pivots semi-circular in cross section, the flat side
of each pivot bearing agaiust one or other of the said concealed stops and thereby
limiting the motion of the handle to about a quadrant substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated the Twelfth day of January 1895.
HY. FEARNCOMBE & CO., LTD.,
Per CHAS. HOULT,
Managing Director.
ABSALOM EVANS.