Improvements in the Manufacture of Coffin Handles, Cabinet Handles, and other Drop Handles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coffin Handles, Cabinet
Handles, and other Drop Handles.
I, SAMUEL TIMINGS, of 23, Great Hampton Street, in the City of Birmingham
Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in making coffin handles cabinet handles and other drop
handles as herein described whereby the cost of manufacture is reduced and the
said handles are rendered stronger and less liable to come to pieces than
heretofore.
Heretofore the kind of drop handle to which my invention refers has usually
been made of two side arms engaging at one end with the handle loops or bearings
and at the other or outer ends the said arms are connected to a piece of tube
forming the grip by a wire rod which is threaded through the arms and grip and
there secured by two knobs or ends screwed upon the ends of the wire rod and thus
the grip and arms and internal rod and knobs or ends are fixed together.
The said knobs or ends are liable to become detached and then the handle may
come to pieces.
Now according to this invention I dispense with the said loose knobs or ends and
cast or otherwise form a knob or end in a piece with each of the arms and I
connect the grip and two arms together by the usual internal wire rod the ends of
which I screw into corresponding holes in the arms or one end of the said wire rod
may be fixed in one of the arms and screwed into the other arm. The ends of the
tubular grip fit in recesses in the arms in the usual way.
As the handle made as above described can only be taken to pieces by unscrewing
the arms or one of them, it follows that when the handle is in use with the arms
engaging in the handle loops or bearings the handle cannot be taken to pieces as
the arms cannot be unscrewed without first removing the handle and loops from the
coffiu or other article to which they are fixed.
Instead of the internal wire rod being screwed into the arms made in a piece
with the knobs or ends as above described the grip may be fixed to the arms by
other means as by the wire rod passing right through the arms and their knobs and
then being rivetted over.
Dated this 16th day of June 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coffin Handles, Cabinet
Handles, and other Drop Handles.
I, SAMUEL TIMINGS, of 23, Great Hampton Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Brassfounder, 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 consists in making coffin handles cabinet handles and other drop
handles as herein described whereby the cost of manufacture is reduced and
the said handles are rendered stronger and less liable to come to pieces than
heretofore.

page_text: Heretofore the kind of handles to which my invention refers has usually been
made of two side arms engaging at one end with the handle loops or bearings an
at the other or outer ends the said arms are connected to a piece of tube forming
the grip by a wire rod which is threaded through the arms and grip and there
secured by two knobs or ends screwed upon the ends of the wire rod and thus the
grip and arms and internal rod and knobs or ends are fixed together. In some
cases the side arms are made with pieces to fix to the drawer front or other article
or the arms are adapted for rivetting to the handle plate.
The said knobs or ends are liable to become detached and then the handle may
come to pieces.
Now according to this invention I dispense with the said loose.kuobs or ends and
cast or otherwise form a knob or end in a piece with each of the arms and I
connect the grip and two arms together by the usual internal wire rod the ends of
which I screw into corresponding holes in the arms; or one end of the said wire
rod may be fixed in one of the arms and screwed into the other arm. The ends of
the tubular grip fit in recesses in the arm in the usual way.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a handle constructed according to this
invention;
Fig. 2 shews one of the combined side arms and knobs or ends of the same
separately; and
Fig. 3 shews separately the wire rod part of the handle illustrated by Fig. 1.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
.
A'A' are the two side arms of the handle each cast or otherwise formed in a
piece with its knob or end a¹; B is the tubular grip the ends fitting in the usual
recesses a in the arms A and C is the wire rod which is threaded through the
grip B and at the ends c¹ c¹ is screwed into the holes as in the combined arms and
knobs so as to firmly hold together the two arms A' A' and the tubular grip B.
Or one of the ends c' of the wire rod C may be made fast in that arm A' in which
it fits and the other end c¹ screwed into the other arm.
The arms A' A¹ may as usual either be made to hinge in the handle loops or be
made to rivet to the handle plates or made with bases to fix to the drawer front or
other articles with which the handle is used.
As the handle made as above described can only be taken to pieces by unscrewing
the arms A' A' or one of them, it follows that when the handle is in use with the
arms engaging in the handle loops or bearings or with the arms fixed to the handle
plate or to the drawer front or other article with which the handle is used, the
handle cannot come to pieces as the arms cannot be unscrewed from the rod C
without first removing the handle from the coffin or other article to which it is
fixed.
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
In a coffin handle or cabinet handle or other handle of the kind herein referred to,
making the two side arms in a piece with their respective knobs or ends and
securing the said combined side arms and knobs or ends to the tubular grip by a
wire rod threaded through the grip and screwed into the side arms, or screwed
into one of the side arms and permanently fixed to the other arm, substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.