Improvements in Sad-iron and other like Handles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Feb., 1887
Complete Accepted, 22nd Mar, 1887.
RESERV
Improvements in Sad-iron and other like Handles.
I, JOHN HUGHES of 31 Hope Street West Bromwich in the County of Stafford,
Foreman of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates principally to the handles of sad irons, smoothing irons and
other irons in which the handle or grip part, is secured to the bracket ends or uprights
by a rod, passing axially through the handle and then rivetted at one or at both of its
ends, so as to connect the handle part to the brackets or ends, which proceed upwards
from the top side of a smoothing iron, or other similar object.
The ordinary method of connecting a handle aforesaid to the bracket ends, is simply
by means of a plain rod rivetted at its ends after having been passed through the parts
to be connected together; this method of connection is somewhat defective, inasmuch
as the joints or connections between the parts cannot always be properly closed; which
renders the handle shaky or unsound.
According to my invention, I take an ordinary metal handle preferably shaped from
a blank cut out of sheet metal, and then turned up into the desired shape of handle
to be formed, with ends gapped or recessed, corresponding to similarly shaped tops on
the ends of the brackets, so that the top ends of the latter fit into the recessed ends of
the former, by dovetail or lug like connections. The axial rod by which the parts are
bound and connected together, is simply a rod headed at one end, and wormed and
slightly reduced in diameter at or near the other end, and which said wormed end of
the rod, screws into a wormed hole in the middle of one of the bracket ends
described.

page_text: In putting together the parts, the bracket ends are first placed in position, then the
axial rod is threaded through them, with the wormed end taking into the screwed hole
in one of the ends; by now rotating the rod in a forward direction, the parts are firmly
and securely bound together, and the joints brought into intimate contact with each
other; when this has been done, the protruding screwed end of the rod is then rivetted,
or the metal spread out, so as to form a head, which completes the process of putting
together. By such means, the handle part is firmly and rigidly secured to the other
parts, which is unattainable where the ends of the connecting rod are only rivetted.
Although I have described my invention as applied to metal handles, yet my said
invention is equally applicable to handles where the grip or barrel part is made of
wood.
JOHN HUGHES.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham,
Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: I, JOHN HUGHES of 31 Hope Street West Bromwich in the County of Stafford,
Foreman of Works, 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:-
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This invention relates principally to the handles of sad irons, smoothing irons and
other irons, in which the handle or grip part is secured to the bracket ends or uprights
by a rod, passing axially through the handle, and then riveted at one or at both ends of
its ends, so as to connect the handle part to the brackets or ends, which proceed
upwards from the top side of a smoothing iron, or other similar object.
The ordinary method of connecting a handle aforesaid to the bracket ends, is simply
by means of a plain rod riveted at its ends, after having been passed through the parts
to be connected together; this method of connection is somewhat defective inasmuch
as the joints or connections between the parts cannot always be properly closed, which
renders the handle shaky or unsound.
According to my invention, I take a metal handle preferably shaped from a blank
cut out of sheet metal, and then turned up into the desired shape of handle to be formed,
with ends gapped or recessed, corresponding to similarly shaped tops on the ends of the
brackets, so that the top ends of the latter fit into the recessed ends of the former, by
lug or stud like connection or connections. The axial rod by which the parts are bound
and connected together, is simply a rod headed at one end, and wormed and slightly
reduced in diameter at or near the other end, and which said wormed end of the rod,
screws into a wormed hole in the middle of one of the bracket ends described.
In putting together the paris, the bracket ends are first placed in position, then the
axial rod is threaded through them, with the wormed end taking into the screwed hole in
one of the ends; by now rotating the rod in a forward direction, the parts are firmly
and securely bound together, and the joints of the said parts brought into intimate
contact with each other; when this has been done, the protruding screwed end of the
rod is then riveted, or the metal spread out, so as to forin a head, which completes the
process of putting together. By such means, the handle part is firmly and rigidly
secured to the other parts, which is unattainable where the ends of the connecting rod
are only riveted.
Although I have described my invention as applied to metal handles, yet my said
invention is equally applicable to handles where the grip or barrel part is made of
wood.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, a sad iron handle made according to my
invention. Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same (partly in section) showing the
lugs or securing studs of the upright brackets, passing through the metal at the extreme
outer ends of the barrel handle. Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the

page_text: said handle figure 1, while figure 4 is a transverse vertical section on the dotted
lines A B figure 3. Figure 5 represents the parts separately in elevation, and in
section. Figure 6 shows a top side view of one end of the barrel handle part, for the
purpose of exhibiting the hole in the said end, wherein the stud or lug as aforesaid,
fits.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is a tubular or harrel handle, shaped or turned up from a blank of sheet metal;
and which said handle is provided at its ends with gapped or recessed parts a², for
receiving the tops of the uprights, or brackets b.
The tops of the end of the said handle have holes a", wherein like or corresponding
lugs or studs on the tops of the upright brackets b, fit. c is an axial rod, screwed at
one end, and headed at the other; and it is by this rod, that the parts before named, are
held together.
The wormed part of the rod, is slightly reduced in diameter, and which said
reduced wormed end, screws into a like wormed hole in one of the upright
brackets; while the plain part of the rod, passes through a plain hole in the other
upright bracket.
In putting and securing the parts of handle together, the studs at the tops of
the bracket ends, are first placed within the holes of the barrel handle and with
the shaped top ends of the said brackets, lying within the recessed or gapped
parts a² of the said handle.
The axial rod c is then threaded through the plain hole 6 of the one bracket, and
with its wormed end screwing into the screwed end of the other bracket; when by
now rotating the rod, the parts are firmly and securely drawn together, with their
joints in intimate and firm contact with each other.
The protruding screwed end of the rod is then riveted or bulged into a head, which
thus completes the process of putting together the parts of sad iron handles. By which
means as aforesaid, the joints of the parts are perfectly made and securely closed,
which is unattainable in ordinary sad irons put together in the usual way.
The putting together of other handles, differs in no essential respect from the putting
together of a sad iron handle hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
:
First Securing or connecting the upright brackets or ends of a sad iron or other
like handle to the barrel or tubular grip part a, by a lug or stud 6, (preferably riveted)
on the tops of each of the said brackets, taking into like holes a³, near the ends, and at
the top of the barrel or grip, aforesaid, substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly Firmly and securely closing the joints of the connected parts, or con-
necting together the parts of sad iron handles, (before riveting or without riveting) by
screwing the one end, or the wormed end of the axial rod c, into a corresponding
screwed hole in one of the bracket ends or uprights b, substantially as set forth.
Thirdly Putting and securely connecting together, sad iron and other handles, as
hereinbefore described and set forth.
Datad this Savantearth day of Wahunane 1887