IMPROVEMENTS IN HANDLES FOR CHESTS AND BOXES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wilhelm Bachtenkirch, of Iserlohn, in Westphalia, Prussia,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HANDLES FOR CHESTS AND BOXES."
Sealed the 2nd July 1878. and dated the 3rd January 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wilhelm Bachtenkirch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1878.
WILHELM BACHTENKIRCH, of Iserlohn, in Westphalia, Prussia.
IN HANDLES FOR CHESTS AND BOXES."
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of handles for wooden
chests and boxes, and consists of a flat plate of hoop or bar iron, or other metal,
secured to the chest or box by screws or otherwise, and formed straight except at
its middle or other convenient part, where it is bent or shaped from its back or
under side with an open concave rib or elevation. Two notches or spaces are cut
transversely through this rib or elevation, dividing it into three parts. The handle
or bow is placed in the open hollows of the two side parts of the rib or elevation,
and its ends being bent over project through the notches, so that when the bow or
handle is raised into a horizontal position its bent ends bear hard against the front
side of the plate, and the chest or box is thereby lifted. By this means the bow or
handle cannot work loose from the plate, and the latter being in one piece is easily
made. Increased durability and cheapness is thus obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Wilhelm Bachtenkirch in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
July 1878.
WILHELM BACHTENKIRCH, of Iserlohn, in Westphalia, Prussia.
IN HANDLES FOR CHESTS AND BOXES."
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of handles for wooden
chests and boxes, and is illustrated by the accompanying Drawing, where Fig. 1
is front view, and Fig. 2 a side or edge view of the improved handle, which consists
of a flat plate a of hoop or bar iron, or other metal, secured to the chest or box by
screws or otherwise, and formed straight, as shewn, except at its middle or other
convenient part, where it is bent or shaped from its back or under side with an
open concave rib or elevation b. Two notches or spaces care cut transversely
through this rib or elevation, dividing it into three parts. The handle or bow d is
placed in the open hollows of the two side parts of the rib or elevation b, and its
euds being bent over project through the notches c, so that when the bow or
handle d is raised into a horizontal position its bent ends bear hard against the
front side of the plate a, and the chest or box is thereby lifted. By this means the
bow or handle d cannot work loose from the plate a, and the latter being in one
piece is easily made. Increased durability and cheapness is thus obtained.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is,―
1. The construction of the plate a, substantially as herein-before set forth.
2. The combination with the plate a of the handle or bow d, substantially as
herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wilhelm Bachtenkirch, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord 1878.