IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE POTS, JUGS, AMESE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Garfield, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE POTS, JUGS,
AMESE
Sealed the 16th July 1875, and dated the 23rd February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Garfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd February 1875.
I, WILLIAM GARFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC HANDLES FOR TEA AND
COFFEE POTS, JUGS, AND OTHER VESSELS AND ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
-:
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of such metallic
handles as are usually composed of two longitudinal halves or parts,
the said halves or parts being connected together at their meeting or
abutting edges.

page_text: The objects of my Invention are to give additional strength to the
handles to facilitate the soldering of the halves or parts together and to
cheapen the manufacture of the handles.
I effect these objects by manufacturing the said handles in the
following manner :-I cut blanks from tin plate or other hard metal or
alloy, and by means of tools worked in a stamp I raise or fashion the
said blanks without waste into longitudinal half handles having a trough
or semicircular figure in cross section, the said half handles being exactly
of the same size, and having plain or unbent edges. I also cut out and
fashion in a similar manner a lining or strengthening piece having the
general figure of one of the longitudinal half handles, but the said lining
or strengthening piece is of less size than the half handle and somewhat
shorter, so that it can readily be placed in one of the half handles.
In putting the parts of the handle together the lining or strengthening
piece is placed in one of the half handles with its convex side outwards,
its edges being situated a short distance below the edges of the half
handle and in this position the said lining piece is soldered to the half
handle. The second half handle being placed edge to edge upon
the prepared half handle and upon the lining or strengthening piece
the said half handles are soldered together and to the said lining piece,
the solder running between the said lining piece and the abutting edges
of the half handles. The lining piece thus serves beside strengthening
the handle as a means by which the two half handles are soldered
together. By its use a larger surface is obtained for receiving the
solder and the soldering is effected with great facility; a firm and strong
junction of the parts also results.
My Invention is principally applicable to the manufacture of handles
from tin plate, but sheet iron, copper, or other hard metal or alloy may

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Garfield, Her
special license, that I, the said William Garfield, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Garfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC HANDLES FOR TEA
AND.COFFEE POTS, JUGS, AND OTHER VESSELS AND ARTICLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Garfield, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Garfield, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of such metallic
handles as are usually composed of two longitudinal halves or parts,
the said halves or parts being connected together at their meeting or
abutting edges.
The objects of my Invention are to give additional strength to the
handles to facilitate the soldering of the halves or parts together, and to
cheapen the manufacture of the handles.
I effect these objects by manufacturing the said handles in the
following manner :-I cut blanks from tin plate or other hard metal or
5 alloy, and by means of tools worked in a stamp I raise or fashion the
said blanks without waste into longitudinal half handles having a trough
or semicircular figure in cross section, the said half handles being

page_text: exactly of the same size and having plain or unbent edges. I also cut out
and fashion in a similar way a lining or strengthening piece having the
general figure of one of the longitudinal half handles, but the said
lining or strengthening piece is of less size than the half handle and
somewhat shorter, so that it can readily be placed in one of the half
handles. In putting the parts of the handle together the lining or
strengthening piece is placed in one of the half handles with its
convex side outwards, its edges being situated a short distance below
the edges of the half handle, and in this position the said lining piece
is soldered to the half handle. The second half handle being placed
edge to edge upon the prepared half handle and upon the lining or
strengthening piece the said half handles are soldered together, and to
the said dining piece, the solder running between the said lining piece
and the abutting edges of the half handles. The lining piece thus serve
besides strengthening the handle as a means by which the two half
handles are soldered together. By its use a larger surface is obtained
for receiving the solder, and the soldering is effected with great facility;
a firm and strong junction of the parts also results.
My Invention is principally applicable to the manufacture of handles
from tin plate, but sheet iron, copper, or other hard metal or alloy 1
may be used in place of tin plate.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents a blank of the kind which I use for forming the
longitudinal half handles, the said blanks being cut out at a stamp or
press in the ordinary way, and Figure 2 represents a longitudinal half
handle made without waste from the blank, Figure 1, by raising tools
worked in a stamp or press. The said half handle has a semicircular.
figure in cross section, and its edges are plain or unbent. Two half
handles of the kind represented in Figure 2 are used in combination
with the lining piece herein-after described for the manufacture of each
handle.
Figure 3 represents the blank from which the lining or strengthening
piece is made, and Figure 4 represents the lining piece made from the
blank, Figure 3, by dies and pressure or percussion, the said lining piece 3
having the general figure of one of the longitudinal half handles, but

page_text: the said lining piece is of less size, so that it can fit in the half
handle.
Figure 5 represents in front elevation, and Figure 6 in cross section
one of the longitudinal half handles with the lining or strengthening
piece fitted in it, the half handle being marked a, and the lining or
strengthening piece c. The lining piece c is so placed in the half
handle a that the convex side of the said lining piece is situated
outwards, and its edges are situated a short distance from or below the
edges of the half handle a, as seen in Figure 6. In this position the
lining piece is soldered to the half handle. The combined half handle
and lining piece is now ready to receive and have soldered to them the
second half handle.
i
Figure 7 represents in front elevation, and Figure 8 in edge view, and
Figure 9 in cross section a complete handle made according to my In-
vention, the said handle consisting of the two half handles a, b, with the
lining or strengthening piece c between them (see Figure 9). In fitting
the second half handle 6 to the combined half handle a and lining
piece c, the said second half handle is placed edge to edge upon the
half handle a and lining piece c, and the said second half handle is
soldered to the first half handle and lining piece, the solder running
between the said lining piece and the abutting edges of the half
handles a, b, as represented in Figure 9, where the solder between the
lining piece and the second half handle is marked d. The two half
handles are thereby very securely soldered together, the soldering being
effected with great facility and the handle strengthened.
Handles manufactured according to my Invention may be ornamented
in any desired manner.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention, but I claim as my Invention the improvements in the manu-
facture of metallic handles for tea and coffee pots, jugs, and other
vessels and articles herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing, that is to say, manufacturing the said handles by
combining with two longitudinal half handles, having plain or unbent
edges, a lining or strengthening piece, constructed and used substan-

page_text: for receiving the solder; the soldering is effected with great facility,
a firm and strong junction of the parts obtained, and the handle
strengthened.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Garfield, have hereunto set 5
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
WILLIAM GARFIELD. (L.S.)