Improvements in Coffin Handles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles.
I CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON, trading as Charles Rollason, of No. 27
Scholefield Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coffin Furniture
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
Coffin handles of the ordinary construction are liable to become detached from
the coffin when exposed to severe lateral or side strain and painful accidents have
frequently happened in consequence of this liability.
The object of my invention is to remove this liability to detachment in coffin
handles and thus to afford security against accidents of the kind referred to.
My said invention consists in constructing coffin handles in the following
manner.
Instead of making the ends of the handle that is the pivots on which the handle
turns of a cylindrical figure having the same diameter throughout I make a head
at the extreme end of each pivot the said head being of considerably larger
diameter than the interior of the loop or bearing in which the pivot works so that
the said head is incapable of sliding out of the said loop or bearing.
I make the handle with its headed pivots by casting and bend the loop forming
the bearing around the neck or part of the pivot of smallest diameter the loop or
bearing being fixed on the coffin in the usual manner.
Or I form the headed pivots separately and support them in the mould in which
the handle is cast and cast the handle upon them. When I make the coffin handle
in this way the bearings may also be made by casting the said bearings being
placed on the pivots before the handle is cast upon them. By this method of
manufacture bearings of great strength and of an ornamental character may be
employed.
Coffin handles made according to my invention are incapable of accidental
detachment from the coffin to which they are fixed and afford absolute security
against accidents of the kind hereinbefore referred to.
Dated the 22nd day of April 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles.
I, CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON trading as Charles Rollason, of No. 27
Scholefield Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Coffin Furniture
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:---
Coffin handles of the ordinary construction are liable to become detached from
the coffin when exposed to severe lateral or side strain and painful accidents have
frequently happened in consequence of this liability.
The object of my invention is to remove this liability to detachment in coffin
handles and thus to afford security against accidents of the kind referred to.
My said invention consists in constructing coffin handles in the following
manner.

page_text: Instead of making the ends of the handle that is, the pivots on which the handle
turns of a cylindrical figure having the same diameter throughout, I make a head
at the extreme end of each pivot, the said head being of considerably larger
diameter than the interior of the loop or bearing in which the pivot works so that
the said head is incapable of sliding out of the said loop or bearing. I make the
handle with its headed pivots by casting and bend the loop forming the bearing
around the neck or part of the pivot of smallest diameter the loop or bearing being
fixed on the coffin in the usual manner.
Or I form the headed pivots separately and support them in the mould in which
the handle is cast, and cast the handle upon them. When I make the coffin. 1
handle in this way, the bearings may also be made by casting, the said bearings
being placed on the pivots before the handle is cast upon them. By this method
of manufacture bearings of great strength and of an ornamental character may be
employed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation and Figure 2 1
in cross section, a coffin handle and handle plate attached to a portion of a coffin,
the said coffin handle being constructed according to my invention :
Figure 3 represents the handle detached.
The section Figure 2 is taken through the neck at one of the pivot ends of the
handle.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
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a is the handle and b, c is the pivot at each end of the said handle. The handle
plate is marked d. The head at the extreme end of each pivot is marked and
the neck between the said head and the outer end of the handle is marked c; 2
e is the circular loop, or eye or bearing by which the handle is supported and in
which the pivot turns, the said loop or eye or bearing engaging with the neck part o
of the pivot end of the handle.
It will be seen by an examination of the drawing, that the head bat each of the
pivot. ends of the handle is of considerably larger diameter than the interior of the 8
loop or bearing in which the pivot works, so that the said head is incapable of
sliding out of the said loop or bearing. The loops or bearings e, e fixed to the
coffin are made of ductile wire.
In fastening the coffin handle to the coffin, the wire to form the loop or bearing
is doubled and the bend coiled around the neck of the pivot; the branches e, 3
of the loop or bearing are then passed through the hole in the coffin g and
, clinched or opened out on the inside of the coffin as seen in Figure 2.
Or the ductile wire loops, or bearings may be fixed in their places without
clinching or opening out their branches as represented in Figure 4. In this
modification the parallel branches e², e of the loops or bearings e, e are screwed at 4
their ends and after the branches have been passed through the hole in the coffin,
screw nuts h are fitted upon the screwed ends at the back of the coffin for fixing
the loops or bearings to the said coffin
Instead of making the headed pivots be; be in one piece with the handle a by
casting as described and represented in the drawing, the said headed pivots, may be 4
made separately and the handle cast upon them. In this case the loops or bearings
may be made by casting, the loops or bearings being placed upon the separate
headed pivots before the handle is cast upon them. The cast loops or bearings.
of this kind are provided with ears by which they can be screwed to the front of:
she coffin.
Although I have represented and described the best methods with. which I am.
acquainted of fixing the loops or bearings of the headed pivots to the coffin, yet.
other analogous ways may be employed with the same or nearly the same effect..
Coffin handles made according to my invention, are incapable of accidental
detachment from the coffin to which they are fixed and afford absolute, security 5
against accidents of the kind herein before referred to.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in coffin handles"
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Making the extreme ends of the cylindrical pivots of coffin handles with heads
so as thereby to form necks between the said pivot heads and the ends of the
handle, the necks of the said pivot heads turning in loops or bearings fixed on the
coffin, the heads of the pivot parts being of considerably larger diameter than
the interior of the said loops or bearings so that the said heads are incapable of
sliding out of the said loops or bearings and accidentally detaching the handle
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
whether the pivot heads be cast in one piece with the handle or be made separately
and the handle cast upon them.
Dated the Twenty-third day of December 1892.
CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON.