Improved Means for Use in and an Improved Method of Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles to Cast Metal Hollowware
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct. 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Use in and an Improved Method of Fixing
Sheet Metal Tubular Handles to Cast Metal Hollowware
We, RICHARD CLAYTON, Managing Dnector of The Cannon Hollowware
Company, Limited, of Deepfields near Bilston in the County of Stafford, Iron-
founders, and JOSEPH RICHARDS, Foreman Fitter in the employment of the said
company, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly descubed and ascertained and by
the following statement.-
This invention has, for its object improvel means for use in, and an improved
method of, fixing sheet metal tubular handles to cast met i hollowware, which
involve no special preparation of the handles for the purposes of such fixture, and
admit of the handles being readily fixed by unskilled labour, without special care
being required to ensure that the handles are held in a particular position in
elation to the handle sockets as their inner ends are inserted therein, whereby such
handles may be readily fixed at the distributing depôt ai by the ultimate purchaser
or user, and may be packed for transport detached from the utensils for which they
at intended. The packing of the handles separately from the utensils and uxing
them thereto at the distibuting depôt or at the place where they are to be used is
not new, and this invention consists only in the improved means for, and method of,
fixing the handles.
The means, according to this invention, for use in fixing a sheet metal tubula
handle within the handle socket of a cast metal hollow waie utensil, consist simply
of a plain end to the handle and a pin screwed through one side, conveniently the
tup side, of the socket; and the method of fixture consists, according to this
Juvention, in first entering the inner end of the handle with the socket (duiving it
preferably somewhat tightly therein) and then tightening up the crew so that its
inner end forms a depression in the handle by somewhat bulging inwards the metal
thereof, thus not only gripping the handle fumly between the inner end of the pin
and the opposite side of the socket, but slightly expanding on tending to expand a
portion of the handle which is within the socket in a duection transverse to the
axis of the pm and thus more firmly tightening the handle within the socket, but
more especially locking the handle within the socket by the portion of the end of
the pin being with the depression formed in the handle by the tightening up of
the pin. To ensure the best result, the end of the pin should be pointed, or
tipeied down to a small diameter and rounded at the end of the taper.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood, we have illustrated the
sane in the drawing herewith, as applied to the fixture of a handle within the
socket of a cast metal saucepan.
Figure 118 a vertical section taken along the longitudinal axis of the handle and
secket, and shews also a portion of the saucepan, and Figue 2 is a plan of
Figure 1
A is the saucepan, B the handle socket, C the haudle, of which the outer end is
broken away for convenience of illustration, and a is the piu
A thickened up
portionis toimed along that part of the socket where the pin is screwed through.
The handle C 15, preferably, formed taper as usual from end to end, and is formed
quite platu at the inner end, such part not being requned to be specially prepared
to engage with or receive the pin The handle is first duiven up tightly within the
socket B the interior of which is formed tapering to correspond with the tipe of

page_text: the handle, and the only point which needs to be observed in entering the handle
within the socket is that it is desnable not to bang the open joint or slit of the
handle near to the pin a. The piu a is then tightly screwed up and forms a
depression in the handle by bulging the metal of the handle inwards.
A subsidiary advantage arising out of this method of fixture is that if the screw
is drawn back the handle can be withdrawn from the socket.
While it is obviously preferred that the inner end of the haudle shall be made
quite plain, and the depression therein be formed by screwing up the pin, such
depression may of course be formed in the handle previously to its insertion within
the socket This, however, would obviously be an inferior method of carrying out
the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, wo declare that what we
claim is .--
1 The improved means for use in fixing a sheet metal tubular handle to a cast
netal hollowware utensil, which consist of a plain-ended handle (or of a handle
having a recess pressed therein at one side to receive the end of a pin), and a
screw (preferably pointed or tapered-ended) screwed through the side of the handle
rocket, substantially as described.
2. The unproved method of fixing a sheet metal tubular handle to a cast metal
hollowware utensil, which consists in inseiting the inner end of the handle within
the handle socket, and screwing a pin (preferably pointed or tapered-ended)
through the side of the socket and against the handle and thereby forming a
depression in the bandle by bulging in a portion of the metal thereof (or entering
the end of such pin within a depression previously formed in the handle), substantially
as described.
3. The improved means for use in, and the improved method of, fixing a sheet
metal tubular handle to a cast metal hollowware utensil, substantially as described
and shewn by the diawings herewith.
Deted the 17th day of October 1895.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.