Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1886. .
Complete Left, 5th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Feb., 1887.
We ARTHUR COLLINGS WELLS of Ogden Sirect, Ardwick, Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer and EDWARD GRUBE of St. Georg Neustrasse,
Hamburg in the Empire of Germany, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows
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Our said Invention is intended more particularly to be used as a substitute for the
ordinary wooden handles for files, chisels, heel-turning tools, gravers and tools of a
similar nature which require to be frequently removed from the handle but our
improved handle may also be employed for other purposes and in conjunction with
machinery or as steering or brake handles for bicycles, irycicles and the like. The
ordinary wooden handle which is commonly employed to hold files is subject to the
disadvantage that the knocking to which the handle is subjected at each removal of
the tool has the effect of causing the handle to split and become soon destroyed.
According to our improvements we make such handles of metal preferably cast to the
required form and cored out so as to be sufficiently light. At the front end of the
handle, that is to say at the end into which the file tang is inserted we form a chamber
having a shoulder or stop at a suitable distance inward Into this chamber we drive
a plug of wood which enters the chamber as far as the aforesaid shoulder or stop. In
the centre of this plug is a perforation which receives the tang or tail of the file or
tool, which can be driven in without any danger of splitting the metal handle.
When the plug of wood has become destroyed by use or when its perforation has
become too large to hold the tool tang it may be driven out and replaced by a fresh
plug. To effect this expulsion of the plug easily and conveniently we core or bore a
hole in the centre of the handle at the back through which we insert a rod or punch
to knock out the plug. By means of our Invention we are enabled to provide a
handle which is practically indestructible, the only part which requires to be renewed
being the hereinbefore referred to wooden plug.
DUTION & FULION,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools, Applicable also
for other Purposes.
We ARTHUR COLLINGS WELLS of Ogden Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, and EDWARD GRUBE of St. George Neustrasse,
Hamburg in the Empire of Germany, Engineer, 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 and accompanying drawings :-
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Our said Invention is intended more particularly to he used as a substitute for the
ordinary wooden handles for files, chisels, turning tools, soldering irons, gravers and
tools of a similar nature which or some of which require to be frequently removed
from the handles but our improved handle may also be employed for other purposes
and in conjunction with machinery or as steering or brake handles for bicycles,
tricycles and the like. The ordinary wooden handle which is commonly employed to
hold files is subject to the disadvantage that the knocking to which the handle is
subjected at each removal of the tool has the effect of causing the handle to split or
otherwise to become useless or imperfect. According to our improvements we make
such handles of metal preferably cast to the required form and cored out so as to be
sufficiently light. At the front end of the handle-that is to say at the end into which
the file tang is inserted-we form a chamber having a shoulder or stop at a suitable
distance inward. Into this chamber we drive a
chamber as far as the aforesaid shoulder or stop. In the centre of this plug is a
plug of wood which enters the
perforation which receives the tang or tail of the file or tool, which can be driven in
without any danger of splitting the metal handle. To render this description of our
invention more clear we have attached hereto a drawing which is illustrative of the
formation we have adopted when making file handles in accordance with the said
invention. In the said drawing the metal part of the handle is represented in section
by a and the said wood plug by b. The handle a is cast from iron and is cored out in
the indicated manner to render it suitably light the iron employed and the subsequent
treatment being suitable to the production of the well known malleable castings. The
plug b is made of beech or of any suitable wood.
it be made of a cheaper and softer wood such for example as ordinary deal as the
As this plug can be readily renewed
splitting is prevented by reason of the protection of the encircling metal or if splitting
takes place to a limited extent the handle is not thereby rendered less serviceable. When
the plug of wood has become destroyed by use or when its perforation has become too
large to hold the tool tang the plug may be driven out and be replaced by a fresh plug
the shoulder or stop e preventing the plug from being driven too far in. To enable this
expulsion of the plug to be easily and conveniently effected we core or bore a hole
at d through which a rod or punch to knock out the plug can be inserted. By means
of our invention we are enabled to provide a handle which is practically indestructible,
the only part which requires to be renewed being the hereinbefore referred to wooden
may

page_text: plug. We do not confine ourselves to the precise formation and proportions of the
handle as illustrated nor to the metal from which the part a is made nor to the casting
of the said part so long as the said part is made of metal and provision is made for
the insertion of a plug to hold the tang of the tool. If preferred for any reason the
wood plug might extend throughout the length of the space within the handle or
through a greater proportion of such space than the indication in the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is:—
(1) The file or tool handle substantially as set forth and indicated hereinbefore and
in and by the accompanying drawing.
(2) A file or tool handle cored or chambered to receive a wood plug and formed
with an aperture at d substantially as and for the purpose set forth and indicated.
(3) A handle made of metal and cored or otherwise formed with a chamber to
receive a bored wood plug substantially as and for the purposes set forth and
indicated.
(4) A hollow cast metal or malleable cast iron handle a formed with an internal
shoulder c and with a chamber extending from the shoulder to the mouth to receive
a wood plug substantially as and for the purposes set forth and indicated.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.