A New or Improved Device for Interlocking the Swinging Handles of Double-pots and the like Utensils
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Interlocking the Swinging Handles
of Double-pots and the like Utensils.
I, SAMUEL HUDSON WRIGHT of 33 Drury Street, Dublin, Umbrella and
Walking Stick Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of a hereinafter described device for interlocking at will,
and preferably in an upright position the ordinary inverted shaped or other
swinging handles attached to double-pots, and so preventing the said handles from
becoming undesirably heated, as is the case when the handles are allowed to
fall, and lie in a horizontal position when the pot is placed on the fire.
To attain the desired object I form a U shaped depression, or indentation, of a
suitable depth in, or at the centre of the handle attached to the smaller of the two
pots, which vessel is then placed, or hung within the other, or larger pot, but with
its handle placed approximately across, or at right angles to the handle attached to
the outer and larger pot.
To place the handles in opperative action, the outer handle is to be held upright,
when if the inuer handle is then allowd to fall sufficiently to either side, the before
mentioned indentation formed therein, will engage with the outer handle at the
point of contact, and so cause the handles to be mutually sustaining.
Dated this the 8th day of July 1895.
SAML. H. WRIGHT.
A New or Improved Device for Interlocking the Swinging Handles
of Double-pots and the like Utensils.
I, SAMUEL HUDSON WRIGHT of 33 Drury Street, Dublin, Umbrella and
Walking Stick Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what'
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described aud ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in and relating to swinging handles of
double pots, such for example as glue pots, or porridge pots, which double pots
consist of an outer pot or vessel adapted to contain water, and an inner pot or
vessel adapted to contain glue, oatmeal or other farinaceous food or other substance
or substances, the inner pot being supported by a rim or other device in such a
manner that said inner pot enters a sufficient distance into said outer pot so that
when the double pot is placed on the fire and the water in the outer pot becomes
heated, said hot water in turn heats the contents of the inner pot, the main advantage
being that the contents within the inner pot are sufficiently heated without risk of
being burnt.
The disadvantage appertaining to double pots provided with swinging handles
as hitherto constructed, is that one or both of said swinging handles fall in a
horizontal position when the double pot is on the fire and consequently said

page_text: handle or handles- become so heated as to burn the fingers of the person touching
them. The object of my invention is to obviate this disadvantage as will be
hereinafter described.
In order that my invention may be readily understood, reference is made to the
accompanying drawing in which:-
Figure 1, shows in side elevation the inner pot of a double pot, said inner pot
being provided with my improved handle.
Figure 2, represents a perspective view of a double-pot provided with my
improved handles, and
Figure 3, represents an alternative construction of the handles hereinafter
referred to.
In carrying my invention into practice, I form the handle A of the inner pot B
with a preferably central and U shaped indentation a about as shown in Figure 1.
The dimensions of the said handle A and the indentation a being such that when
said inner pot B is placed into the outer pot C and the handles A and D raised in
the manner shown in Figure 2, said handles A and D will be held and partly
locked in an upright position owing to the frictional contact existing between the
indented portion a of the handle A with the handle D, and also owing to the handle D
being locked in the indented part a of the handle A.
For the purpose of readily placing the handles in their intended locked position,
it is necessary to first raise the handle D. to an upright or vertical position and
afterwards also raise the handle A to an upright position-the inner pot B being
placed in the outer pot C in such a manner that the handles D and A are at
right angles to one another-when the two handles will become frictionally engaged
or locked as described.
Instead of the handle A of the inner pot B being formed with an indentation,
I may form the handle D of the outer pot C with an outwardly extending
indentation a' as shown in Figure 3, the difference being that the plain handle A
of the inner pot would be first raised, and afterwards the indented handle. D of the
outer pot raised so that the indentation a would grip the handle A. The
handles are usually made of wire and attached to the pots in any suitable
manner.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the exact con-
struction of the different parts as described, nor to any particular shape or position
of the indentation on handles, as said indentations may be eccentrical relatively to
the handles and also the shape of such indentations may be angular instead of
U shaped.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a double pot having swinging handles, a handle A formed with an
indentation such as a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In a double pot having swinging handles, a handle D having an indentation
such as a substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
3. The combination in a double pot of a plain handle with a handle having an
indentation, for the purpose and substantially as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of December 1895.
SAMUEL HUDSON WRIGHT,
By his Agents, Horn, Son & Co.,
Somerset Chambers, 151 Strand, London.