Improvements in Handles for Tea and Coffee Pots, Kettles, Knives, Doors, Bicycles, Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and such like articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct., 1897
Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Tea and Coffee Pots, Kettles, Knives,
Doors, Bicycles, Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and such like
articles.
JAMES MEESON 29 Vincent Road, Sharrow Lane Sheffield, Yorkshire, Metal
Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a firm and durable handle Suitable for
Tea pots and Such like Articles.
This i attain by a combination of Vulcanized Caoutchouc or India rubber, pre-
viously Moulded in a Soft State on a foundation or base of Metal or other Suitable
material.
My Method of Construction is as follows
First. I make a handle of Metal or other Suitable Material for the base or
foundation, of a less diameter than the finished handle, this i do by Stamping,
Casting or Moulding or bending it to the required Shape.
Secondly. I make a hollow Mould of brass or other material the full Size and pattern
desired, into which i place the Smaller or foundation handle, i then fill up the
Cavity by Moulding or running in a liquid State Caoutchouc or India rubber.
After moulding i vulcanize the rubber by Sulphur, or by dry or Steam heat or
by any of the ordinary Methods of Vulcanizing used in the trade, untill it is hard
and forms what is know in the trade as Vulcanite or Ebonite.
Dated this 20th
A
1807
Improvements in Handles for Tea and Coffee Pots, Kettles, Knives,
Doors, Bicycles, Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and such like
articles.
I, JAMES MEESON 29 Vincent Road, Sheffield in the County of York, Metal
Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of handles for various
purposes, of rubber vulcanite, and vulcanised compounds, having for its object
to produce a handle of such material strong and rigid, and also a non-conductor
of heat, and which is therefore well adapted for Teapots and other vessels used
to contain hot liquids.

page_text: The invention may be said briefly to consist in moulding the soft rubber (which
is preferably brought to a plastic condition) upon a metal core within a mould
and vulcanizing it in position, but the process may be modified.
The annexed drawings illustrate my invention applied to a teapot handle.
Fig. 1, represents a metal core upon which the rubber is moulded.
Fig. 2, represents 'a Teapot handle with the face of the rubber removed to show
the position of the core.
Fig. 3, represents a completed handle.
Fig. 4, shows a modification in construction.
In carrying out my invention in the construction of a Teapot handle as shown,
I first prepare a mould capable of producing a handle of the desired pattern, in
this case one of the well known "Queen Ann" design is shown, such a mould
would be made in two parts the division being made to bisect the handle through
the centre vertically.
.
I also make a core C, Fig. 1, of metal or other suitable material, approximating
in form to the handle of which it is to form the foundation, and in the one
shown it is provided with two extensions or points P, by means of which it is
secured to the handle sockets of the teapot by pins passed through the said parts,
but in some cases the points P, are cut off and the shoulder S, which projects
beyond the vulcanite handle R, at each end, is soldered to the socket as is well
understood in the trade.
The core C, may be made by casting it to form, or it may be stamped in halves
which are afterwards soldered together, or it may be bent from wire or be other-
wise shaped to the required configuration as most convenient.
The core so made is placed within the mould which supports it centrally
within the matrix by gripping the ends or points P, and I fill up the space in
the mould which surrounds the core with caoutchouc, rubber compound or other
like plastic material capable of being vulcanised to such a degree of hardness
that it will become what is known as Vulcanite or Ebonite and that will not be
materially affected by being subjected to heat under 200 degrees Fahreneit.
In some cases I may find it desirable to mould the rubber into two parts or
halves of the intended handle and afterwards to compress them upon the core
within a mould.
When the rubber is so moulded upon the core by either of the methods
previously described, and the handle so formed is securely held enclosed in the
mould, I vulcanize the rubber either by the application of dry or steam heat
or any of the ordinary methods of vulcanizing until the desired hardness is
produced.
It is not necessary in all cases that the supporting core C, should be continuous
and pass through the handle from end to end as shown in Fig. 2, but as a
modification I may use short cores inserted at each end as shown in Fig. 4, the
shanks being either plain, roughed, dovetailed or the like.
I am aware that it has been proposed to make handles of Xylonite and Celluloid
for Teapots by cutting them out of slabs of such material, and to strengthen
them by the insertion of wire screwed into them centrally, and I therefore wish it
to be understood that such a method forms no part of my invention.
nature
of my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A Handle for Teapots and other Vessels for hot liquids, which consists of
a metal core or central support, and a caoutchouc or rubber covering moulded
and vulcanised upon such core substantially as hereinbefore described and set
forth.
2. In the construction of handles for Teapots, Coffee pots, and other like vessels,
the combination with a metallic core or central support (or more than one) such

page_text: as C, of an outer covering of rubber R, or other substance capable of being
moulded and vulcanised hard, as hereinbefore described and shown.
3. In handles for Teapots and like vessels, the combination of vulcanite (to
form the handle proper) with attachments of metal by which the handles may be
secured to such vessels by any of the usual or other means.
Dated the 15th day of September 1897
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Agent for Applicant.