Improvements relating to Handles, and Ferrules therefor.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Handles, and Ferrules therefor.
We, FRANZ OSKAR RAU, Brazier, and EMIL RICHARD WAGNER, Merchant,
both of Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, 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 :-
The present invention relates to handles for tools of all kinds, for hand crank
levers, for packets or parcel carriers, as also to knobs serving as door and drawer
handles, and consists in providing the same with ferrules for protecting their ends,
and the invention comprises particularly the construction of the said ferrules and
the attachment of the same to the ends of the said handles as hereinafter more
particularly described.
And in order to make the present Specification more easily intelligible reference
is bad to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts
throughout the several views:
Figs. 1 and 2 being vertical sections through tool handles provided with our
improved ferrules;
Fig. 2 a vertical section through the ferrule before it is affixed to the said
handle;
Fig. 3 a section through a crank lever handle;
Fig. 3 a similar section through the ferrule for said handle ends;
Figs. 4 and 4 are sections through a packet carrier and ferrule ;
Figs. 5, 5 and 5B show sections of a knob for doors and drawers and the like
provided with ferrules;
Figs. 6, 64 and 6B are similar sections through another form of knob.
The tool handle A (Figs. 1 and 2) is provided at that end into which the spike
of the tool is inserted with a ferrule a, which is not of the ordinary construction,
but is made in the first place in the form shown in Fig. 24 i.e. having its diameter
enlarged at the lower part. At about the same distance from the top of the
handle, as the enlargement is from the top of the ferrule, the former is provided
with a beading cover which the enlarged part e of the ferrule grips. The ferrule
is placed over the handle and its lower edge rolled over to completely grip the
beading as shown at Fig. 2. Instead of enlarging the said ferrule and providing
the handle with a beading, the latter may be provided with a groove as shown at
Fig. 1 into which the lower end d of a ferrule of even diameter throughout may be
rolled. The lower end of the handle may also be provided with a similar ferrule or
cap b which is secured in the same manner; if desired the stem of the said tool
may be carried right through the handle and rivetted on to the cap at the lower
end as shown at Fig. 1.
Ferrules of this construction cannot be displaced or slip off and thus more
effectually prevent the loosening of the tool than heretofore.
Figs. 3 and 34 show the ferrule in connection with the lever of a crank, in
which case the same not only holds the wood part of the said handle in place but
also protects the same from the friction against the stem of the said lever. The
ferrule plays a similar part in regard to the packet carrier handle shown in Fig. 4.
Knobs may be effectually protected by means of ferrules and caps as shown in
Figs. 5 and 6, in which case the metallic cap may either be coloured to match the
wood or the same may be polished after having been nickeled or golded or
otherwise ornamented.

page_text: 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 a ferrule attachment, the combination of a groove or depression round
the handle or kuob into which the end of the ferrule is rolled, substantially as
.described.
2. The combination of a ferrule having an enlarged lower part e adapted to grip
over a beading on the handle, and be rolled round the same, substantially as
described.
3. The combination of a protecting cap or ferrule for handles, knobs and the like
having a groove or depression round the same into which the edge of the said cap
or ferrule is rolled, substantially as described.
Darty this 1st day of March 1994.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.