Improvements in Pull Handles for Water Closet Flushing Cisterns and analogous purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pull Handles for Water Closet Flushing Cisterns
and analogous purposes.
RICHARD ECCLES of 11 Wilson Patten Street Warrington in the County of
Lancaster, Managing Director, and THE CASTLE RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED
of Warrington aforesaid India Rubber Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The production and application of a novel pull handle made of vulcanized india
rubber or any suitable compound thereof; thus to obviate the disadvantages of the
ordinary handles of hard or brittle material usually employed, which are liable to
cause damage to the wall or partition near which they hang, and further to sustain
damage or breakage themselves, in addition to the risk of injury to persons using
same.
Dated this Tmentinth da- o A 1906
Improvements in Pull Handles for Water Closet Flushing Cisterns
and analogous purposes.
We, RICHARD ECCLES and THE CASTLE RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED, of
11 Wilson Patten Street, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention has reference to pull-handles for actuating ordinary water flush
tanks or cisterns, used in w.c.'s, and for other purposes, such as raising and lowering
windows, shutters, and other articles and objects; and it consists of a novel
construction of same in which the whole and complete article is of vulcanized
india-rubber, or suitable compounds thereof. That is, the whole handle is made of
the vulcanized rubber (or compound thereof), with a hole through its centre or end,
by which its attachment with a cord, rod, chain, or the like, connected with the
thing to be pulled, is made. By this pull-handle, the damage caused to walls near
which such pull-handles hang, to windows, or other surfaces or articles, as the case
may be, by the pull-handles at present used, and the damage also to such handles
themselves, made, as they often are, of brittle material, is entirely obviated.
Besides which, by the present pull-handles, persons using them are liable to be
hurt and injured, while with this improved handle, if they should be hit, they
are neither hurt nor injured.

page_text: The handle is most conveniently made by forming it in moulds of the required
shape and design, which of course will vary according to the purposes the handle
is intended for, requirements, etcetera.
An illustration of our improved elastic pull-handle is given in the accompanying
drawings in outside elevation and sectional elevation, in Figures 1 and 2, respectively.
In the drawings, a is the body of the pull-handle, made of vulcanized india-rubber
(or a compound thereof), and 6 is the hole through its centre, through which the
rod c, by which it is attached to the article or thing it is to operate, is fixed and
held in the usual way. Instead of this rod, the pull cord or the like may be passed
through the hole itself, and provided with a washer, or any suitable enlargement on
its end, by which it is held securely on such cord or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The new or improved elastic pull-handle made of the material specified, and as
and for the purposes described.
Dated this 10th do 1900
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicants' Patent Agents.