Improvements in or connected with Earthenware Bottles, Jars, and like Vessels, and in Handles therefor.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Earthenware Bottles, Jars, and
like Vessels, and in Handles therefor.
GEORGE JAMES CHAMBERS, 74, Harleyford Road, Kennington, S.E., Pottery
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The substitution of unbreakable handles made of metal or any other unbreakable
material for the earthenware handles usually fixed upon & part of earthenware
bottles, jars & the like in use by brewers & other trades.
For this purpose I make earthenware bottles jars & the like, but without the
fixed handle of its own material instead of which make provision on any suitable
part of the bottle or jar for the fastening on of a handle made of metal or any
other unbreakable material. The handles are so made that they will be inter-
changeable with any other bottle or jar of its own size or shape.
Dated this 1st day of May 1890.
GEORGE JAMES CHAMBERS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Earthenware Bottles, Jars, and
like Vessels, and in Handles therefor.
1, GEORGE JAMES CHAMBERS, of 74, Harleyford Road, Kennington, in the
County of Surrey, Pottery Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with earthenware bottles,
jars, and like vessels and in handles therefor and the object of my invention is to
substitute for the handles hitherto employed and which have been formed or fixed
on the vessel in the process of manufacture and have been of the same fragile
material, unbreakable handles which are at the same time interchangeable and thus
to minimise the loss to the users of such vessels occa. ioned by the breaking of the
handles thereof.
For this purpose I dispense with the ordinary fixed fragile handle and form upon
the vessel in the process of manufacture and in any suitable position one or more
nibs or projections in which I form transverse holes or make other provision for the
attachment of the handles thereto.
The handles are made of any suitable infrangible material such for example as
bent wire covered with tin plate or of metal and wood or other materials combined,
and they are provided with perforated lugs or eyes formed to embrace the nibs or
projections and receive pins passing through the nibs or they are otherwise formed
so as to be readily attachable to the nibs.
The nibs of the vessels and the handles are so arranged that the handles of
vessels of a given size and shape will be interchangeable.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
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page_text: Figure 6 is a side view of the handle separately.
Figure 7 is an inside view thereof and
Figure 8 is a horizontal section thereof taken on the line 1-1 of Figure 7 but
drawn to a larger senle.
Figure 9 is a side elevation of a portion of a bottle fitted with a slightly modified
handle.
Figure 10 is a side view of the handle separately and
Figure 11 is an inside view thereof,
Figure 12 is a side elevaton representing a modified form of bottle and
handle and
Figure 13 is a plan thereof.
Figure 14 is a side elevation of a jar constructed and fitted with a handle accord-
ing to my invention and
Figure 15 is a plan thereof.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
Referring to Figures 1 to 8'a represents an earthenware bottle which is generally
of the ordinary construction but according to my invention I dispense with the
handle hitherto employed and which was formed or fixed upon the bottle in the
process of manufacture and was of the same fragile material, and I substitute
therefor two nibs or projections a¹ to which I attach an infrangible handle 7.
The nibs which are provided with holes of therethrough are formed or fixed
upon the bottle a in the process of manufacture thereof and are of the same
material but they are of such shape and dimensions as to give great strength and
render the possibility of breakage very remote.
The handle is formed of lengths of wire & bent to the required form and
partly covered with tin plate 15 so as to leave the ends of the wires projecting
beyond the tin covering and these projecting ends are coiled or twisted to form
lugs or eyes to receive a pine by the aid of which the handle is attached to
the nibs of the bottle a whilst beyond the lugs or eyes the ends of the wires '
by reason of the coils or eyes forin spring tails or fingers which take an abut-
ment against the shoulder of the bottle and are thus constantly held in compression
thereby holding the handle b firm and stendy.
In attaching the handle to the bottle a it is placed in position with the
lugs or eyes one upon each side of the nibs or projections a and the handle is
then pressed upon the bottle with sufficient force to overcome the resistance of the
spring tails and bring the eyes into alignment with the holes of the nibs or
projections a; n split or other pin is then passed through the eyes of the
handle and the holes a' of the nibs a' the pressure is then removed from the
handle and the spring tails are allowed to act thus binding the parts together
and holding the handle firmly in position.
In the example given at Figures 9, 10, and 11, the bottle a is similar to that
hereinbefore shown and described but the handle is modified in so far that the
wires are dispensed with and the handle is formed entirely of galvanized sheet
iron, the eyes and spring tails being formed out of the sheet metal of which
the handle is composed, whilst the spring tails instead of resting upon the
shoulder of the bottle a take an abutment against the nibs a' thereof; the action
of the parts is however similar to that previously described.
In the example given at Figures 12 and 13 in which have substituted a fall
down handle for the fixed handle previously described I have arranged the nibs
or projections a side by side upon the bottle and I have formed the handle of a
length of wire bent into the form of a bail provided with a covering bª or hold
for the hand and which may be formed of any suitable material and shape.
The ends of the wire bare coiled into the form of lugs or eyes with projecting
spring tails as herein before described with respect to Figures 1 to 8 but in this

page_text: case the tails take an abutment against the bottle a when the handle b is raised
and thus form stops to retain the handle at the required angle.
In the example given at Figures 14 and 15 I have shown a jar a fitted with
removably fixed lugs or handles b.
In this arrangement the nibs or projections a' are arranged side by side in a some-
what similar manner to that represented with respect to Figures 12 and 13 and the
lugs or handles which are forined of malleable cast iron or other suitable material,
at their upper part closely fit the circumference of the jar whilst they are pro-
vided with holes therethrough to receive the pin e, by means of which they are
held in position.
In constructing the vessels and the handles arrange them in such manner that
the handles will be interchangeable with respect to given sizes and kinds of vessels
so that when a vessel becomes broken its handle may be utilized for another similar
vessel.
By these means I render earthenware vessels casier to manufacture by dispensing
with the ordinary fixed handle and also more durable than heretofore inasmuch as
the breakage of a vessel not infrequently occurs in consequence of the giving way of
a cracked or faulty handle when the latter is made of the same fragile material as
the vessel and minimise the loss to the users of earthenware vessels occasioned by
the breakage of the handles.
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
herein shown and described as it is obvious that the same may be considerably
modified without departing from the spirit of my invention; for example I may
employ one or any suitable number of nibs or projections a' of any suitable shape
and placed in any suitable position upon the vessel a and formed with holes a
therein or with other provision for the ready attachment thereto of interchangeable
handles and I may form the handles of any other suitable infrangible material
than metal and of any suitable shape and with other means of attachment to the
nibs or projections a' than those hereinbefore shown and described.
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. An earthenware vessel formed with one or more nibs or projections thereon
each provided with a hole therethrough or with other means of attaching thereto
an infrangible handle iu manner substantially as herein shown and described.
2. An infrangible handle provided with eyes or other means of ready attachment
to the nibs or projections of an earthenware vessel substantially as herein shown
and described.
3. The combination of an earthenware vessel formed with one or more nibs or
projections thereon, each provided with a hole therethrough or with other means of
readily attaching thereto an infrangible handle, and an infrangible handle provided
with corresponding means of attachment to such nib or nibs substantially as herein
shown and described.
Dated this 2nd den of LABO 1801
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.