Improvements in the Construction of Coffin Handles and like Fittings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Coffin Handles and like
Fittings.
We, WALTER NICHOLLS, of 196 Arthur Street, Small Heath, in the County of
Worcester, Works Manager, and THE GENERAL COFFIN FURNITURE COMPANY
LIMITED, of 89 Glover Street, in the City of Birmingham, Coffin Furniture
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the method of construction and in the
details of coffin handles and like fittings.
Our object is to produce a cheap and effective handle or other object by a process
which produces a strong and neat fitting while at the same time a considerable
saving in the cost of manufacture is effected.
Our invention consists in dispensing with the brass castings hitherto used to-
produce coffin handles and like fittings and instead producing the said fittings from
sheet or plate metal by cutting out by means of suitable punches of the desired
configuration. In manufacturing a coffin handle for example we cut out the
brackets in any known form from plate brass or other metal, and we rivet in pins or
projections of suitable shape to carry the handle, punching or perforating the plate
beforehand with the necessary holes to take the said pins. We thus build up our.
handle or fitting and rivet together instead of casting as hitherto practised.
Dated this 20th day of September 1892.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Coffin Handles and like
Fittings.
We, WALTER NICHOLLS, of 196 Arthur Street, Small Heath, in the County of
Worcester, and THE GENERAL COFFIN FURNITURE COMPANY LIMITED, of
89 Glover Street, in the City of Birmingham, Coffin Furniture Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the method of construction and in the
details of coffin handles and like fittings.
Our object is to produce a cheap and effective handle or other object by a process
which produces a strong and neat fitting while at the same time a considerable
saving in the cost of manufacture is effected.
Our invention consists in dispensing with the brass castings hitherto used to
produce coffin handles and like fittings, and instead, producing the said fittings.
from sheet or plate metal by cutting out with suitable punches of the desired
configuration.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figures 1 and 2 represent plan and sectional elevation of a blank A stamped
from sheet metal, suitable in configuration for a coffin handle arm or bracket,
while
Figure 3 and Figure 4 represent elevation and plan of the pin or projection B
which is rivetted or otherwise attached to the arms or fittings A as shown in

page_text: Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8, which show this pin rivetted in position upon arms or fittings
of different configurations.
Figure 9 shows a coffin handle constructed in accordance with our invention.
In manufacturing a coffin handle C (Figure 9) for example we cut out the
brackets or arms A in any known form from plate brass or other metal, and we
rivet in or otherwise secure pins or projections B of suitable shape to carry the
bandle, punching or perforating the plate beforehand with the necessary holes to
take the said pins.
We also sometimes form recesses A¹ in the opposite end of the arms to which
this pin is secured, for the purpose of receiving the handle C through which
is passed the rod or bar D, and upon this rod or bar we screw ornamental knobs
such as E and thereby secure the arms or fittings to the handle in the usual
ordinary manner.
We thus build up our handle or fitting and rivet together instead of casting as
hitherto practised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In coffin handles and similar furniture, the construction of arms or fittings
such as A from sheet or plate metal, substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described.
2. In coffin handle and similar furniture, the construction of arms or fittings
such as A, having holes punched or otherwise formed therein for the reception of
pins such as B, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1893
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.