Improvements in or relating to Handles for Carrying Parcels, Packages, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 6th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Handles for Carrying Parcels,
Packages, and the like.
RUPERT THOMAS COOKE 51 Angus Street Roath Cardiff in the County of
Glamorgan Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to.
be as follows:-
A handle of suitable length size shape and surface to be grasped bodily by the
hand and specially provided with holes uotches slits or grooves and a suitable
length of cord string or the like for easy and quick attachment and fixing to a
package parcel bundle or their equivalent for the purpose of carrying the same-
about from place to place.
For the purpose of carrying about packages parcels bundles or the like already
tied up I dispense with the cord or string the holes notches slits or grooves of the
said handle are thereby available for and provide means of easy and quick.
attachment and fixing to the cord string or other bare fastening of the packages
parcels or bundles whereby they are conveniently carried about without the
unpleasantness to the hand usually experienced when carrying the same by the
bare fastening.
The said handles may be made of wood papier maché celluloid or any other
suitable material and the holes notches slits or grooves may be in any position or
direction whatever upon or in the handle as found most suitable.
Dated this 29th day of July 1895.
RUPERT THOMAS COOKE.
Improvements in or relating to Handles for Carrying Parcels,
Packages, and the like.
I RUPERT THOMAS COOKE 31 Granville Street, Ashton under Lyne, in the
County of Lancashire, Mechanical Engineer, late of 51 Angus Street Cardiff in.
County of Glamorgan 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 :-
My invention consists of a handle made chiefly of wood and of suitable size und
form to be grasped by the band and provided with holes and grooves as shown by
the accompanying drawings. The said handle is for the purpose of carrying about.
packages parcels bundles and the like.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a handle provided with holes A. A, grooves B B, and grooves C C..
These holes and grooves may be of any suitable size or form for the direct
reception of cords tapes leather straps or the like by which a novel carrier of great.
variety and convenience is produced for the purpose of carrying about packages.
parcels bundles and the like.
Figure 2 is a handle for presentation to purchasers who carry home their own
parcels from drapers clothiers and other saleshops. The cords tapes leather-straps.

page_text: and the like are entirely dispensed with. The handle is provided with small
holes A A, also longitudinal and transverse grooves E and H by which the handle
is easily and quickly attached to the string or other fastening of a parcel already
tied or fastened up. The longitudinal and transverse grooves E and H are a little
more than half the diameter in depth as shown by the drawings and may be at
right angles or oblique to each other, and in any number position or direction in or
upon the said handle as found by experience the most suitable for retaining the
fastenings of a parcel in the said grooves.
I also print upon this handle along the sides of the groove E where most exposed
to view an advertisement of a shopkeepers name, business occupation and address.
The said handles are made chiefly of wood but may be made of papier maché,
celluloid ivory or any other suitable material.
The handle shown by Figure 1 is to be used as follows.
1st. Pieces of cord or the like of sufficient length are tied into the holes A A or
the grooves B B of the handle. The cords or the like are then passed round the
parcel to be carried and half way round the groove C C and pulled until quite
tight, the tightness. of the cords is secured by passing them once more round the
grooves CC they are then passed round the parcel again and tied in any
convenient way.
2nd. If the parcel to be carried is hard or rigid several knots are tied with the
cords close up to the bandle at both ends.
The cord is then passed round the parcel and tied or fastened in any convenient
way. The aforesaid knots keep the handle sufficiently apart from the parcel for
the hand to pass between the two and grasp the handle comfortably.
The parcel is then carried by the handle.
3rd. Leather straps or the like are securely fitted into the holes A A or the
grooves BB the buckle or ends of the straps being fixed relatively to the handle
are more easily passed round the parcel to be carried and are more conveniently
fastened or secured.
up.
The parcel is then carried by the handle.
The handle shown by Figure 2 is for carrying parcels already tied or fastened
The fastenings of the parcel to be carried is placed into the longitudinal and
transverse grooves E and H, the handle is thereby instantly attached to the parcel
which is then carried by the handle.
When journies by coach or railway render it necessary to secure the handle to
the parcel this is accomplished by passing the fastening through the holes A A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be used I declare that what I'
claim is
1st. The holes A A, the grooves B B and the grooves C C in or upon a parcel
carrying handle as shown by Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.
2nd. The small holes A A, the longitudinal and transverse grooves Ę and H &
little over half the diameter of the handle in depth; in or upon a parcel carrying
handle in which all fittings and attachments are entirely dispensed with as shown
by Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of April 1896.