Churns, Chests, Travelling Boxes, and other Articies.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application; 10th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
Churns, Chests, Travelling Boxes, and other Articies.
I WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON of the Firm of Williamson and Sons of
Providence Works in the City of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in constructing drop or swing handles for milk carrying cans
churns chests travelling boxes and other articles in the manner hereinafter described
whereby the said handles are made of great strength and durability and their parts
are not liable to get out of repair' by the strain and wear and tear to which they are
exposed in use.
or
I make each of the said drop or swing handles of three parts namely of the drop
swing handle which is gripped in use and of two side supports or plates in which the
pivots or ends of the drop or swing handle turn the said side supports or plates being
fixed to the milk can churn chest or box or other article by screwing or riveting or
by screw bolts and nuts.
The drop handle is made by preference from a cylindrical bar of wrought iron or
steel and the upper ends of the sides of the drop handle are bent either inwards or
outwards at right angles to the body of the handle and constitute the pivots on which
the handle turns. The drop handle may have a bow shaped or curved figure or a
rectangular figure.
I construct the side supports or plates by which the handle is supported and in
which the handle pivots turn in the following manner. I make the upper part of the
said side support or plate of an angular figure that is the extreme end of the support
or plate is turned at right angles to the vertical perforated part in which the pivot of
the handle works the horizontal bent part constituting a stop for limiting the upward
motion of the drop handle or preventing the drop handle being lifted beyond a
horizontal position. The horizontal or stop parts of the angle ends of the fixing plates
or supports may either be turned inwards or outwards. When turned inwards the
pivots of the handle are turned outwards and when the said stop parts are turned
outwards the pivots of the handle are turned inwards.

page_text: Instead of making the angle parts of the fixing supports or plates from the upper
ends of the said supports or plates separate angle parts may be attached to the fixing
supports or plates by soldering or brazing rivetting or otherwise. In this case the
separate angle parts are situated near the upper ends of the fixing supports or plates
the vertical webs of the angle parts being perforated for receiving the pivots of the
handle and the horizontal webs constituting the stops of the handle as herein before
described.
Side supports or plates of the kinds described may be made in malleable cast iron
ordinary cast iron wrought iron brass copper or other hard and durable metal or
alloy.
1000

page_text: Improvements in DIOP
Churns, Chests, Travelling Boxes, and other Articles.
I WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON of the firm of Williamson and Sons of
Providence Works in the City of Worcester, Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists in constructing drop or swing handles for milk carrying cans,
churns, chests, travelling boxes and other articles in the manner hereinafter described,
whereby the said handles are made of great strength and durability and their parts
are not liable to get out of repair by the strain and wear and tear to which they are
exposed in use.
I make each of the said drop or swing handles of three parts; namely, of the drop
or swing handle which is gripped in use and of two side supports or plates in which
the pivots or ends of the drop or swing handle turn, the side supports or plates being
fixed to the milk can churn chest or box or other article by screwing or riveting or
by screw bolts and nuts.
The drop handle is made by preference from a cylindrical bar of wrought iron or
steel and the upper ends of the sides of the drop handle are bent either inwards or
outwards at right angles to the body of the handle and constitute the pivots on which
the handle turns. The drop handle may have a bow shaped or curved figure or a
rectangular figure.
I construct the side supports or plates by which the handle is supported and in
1 make the upper part of the
which the handle pivots turn in the following manner.
said side support or plate of an angular figure, that is, the extreme end of the support
or plate is turned at right angles to the vertical perforated part in which the pivot of
the handle works the horizontal bent part constituting a stop for limiting the upward
motion of the drop handle or preventing the drop handle being lifted beyond or
slightly beyond a horizontal position. The horizontal or stop parts of the angle ends
When
of the fixing plates or supports may either be turned inwards or outwards.
turned inwards the pivots of the handle are turned outwards and when the said stop
parts are turned outwards the pivots of the handle are turned inwards.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in front elevation and Figure 2
in side elevation a drop or swing handle inade according to my invention; Figure 3
represents in front and side elevation one of the side supports or plates detached
and Figure 4 represents in elevation and edge view the drop or swing handle
detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
a is the drop or swing handle made preferably from a cylindrical bar of wrought
iron or steel and having a rectangular figure and bb are the pivots on which the
handle turns the said pivots being made by bending inwards the upper ends of the

page_text: sides of the grip part of the handle a at right angles to the said sides: c,,
care the side supports or plates for the drop handle a, c being the nearly flat
broad part of the side support by which it is screwed or otherwise fixed to the milk
can or other article d and the stop or angle part for limiting the upward motion of
the handle a. In the part of the side support between the angle end or stop e and
the broad fixing part is a hole fin which the pivot part of the drop handle turns
as represented.
It will be seen by an examination of Figure 1 that the angular or stop parts ³, c³
of the side supports or plates are turned outwards while the pivots b, of the drop
handle are turned inwards. These parts however may be reversed as represented in
front elevation in Figure 5 and side elevation in Figure 6; that is to say, the
pivots of the drop handle a are turned outwards and the angular or stop ends of
the side supports c are turned inwards. In this modification the drop handle has a
bow or curved shape but I do not limit myself to making the drop handle of any
particular shape.
.
Instead of making the angle parts of the fixing supports or plates from the upper
ends of the said supports or plates, separate angle parts may be attached to the fixing
supports or plates by soldering brazing, rivetting or otherwise. In this case the
separate angle parts are situated near the upper ends of the fixing supports or plates
the vertical webs of the angle parts being perforated to receive the pivots of the
handle and the horizontal webs constituting the stops of the handle as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Side supports or plates of the kinds described may be made in malleable cast iron
ordinary cast iron wrought iron brass or other hard and durable metal or alloy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that 1
claim as my invention of "Improvements in drop or swing handles for milk
carrying cans, churns chests travelling boxes and other articles"
The construction of the side supports or plates for the pivots or ends of the drop or
swing handle to turn in and for limiting the upward motion of the said handle
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings,
whether the angular or stop ends of the said side supports be made in one piece with
the side supports or of separate pieces soldered, brazed or rivetted or otherwise fixed
to the side supports as before described.
Dated the Seventeenth day of January 1889.
WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON.