Improvements in Pull Handles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
Improvements in Pull Handles.
THOMAS REDFERN LEIGH Ironmonger 67 Deansgate Manchester 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 relates to the construction of handles or pulls which are attached
to cords, closet valve chains, and other similar appliances requiring handles for
pulling or attachment thereto, for any purpose, and its objects are to prevent damage
possibly resulting from the swaying about of such handles when in use.
In carrying out my invention I may form the interior of the handle of a tubular
core of wood or other suitable hard material, I then build upon this core or fit
thereon a suitable covering or layer or layers either of ordinary india rubber or
textile or similar material producing a surface of softer nature than what is
requisite for the attachment of the cord. In connecting the handle to the cord I
may make the opening at the cord end of the core or tube smaller than that at
the free end so that the cord can be threaded through the core or tube and be
resisted by a knot made on the cord. As a modification of the above fastening I
may employ an ordinary eye bolt so arranged that when secured to the core by
screwing or bolting it therein it shall be enclosed within the india rubber covering.
I will more particularly describe my said invention with reference to the
accompanying drawings in each of the figures of which similar letters are employed
to denote similar parts.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of my improved hundle.
Fig. 2. is a longitudinal section shewing tubular core
fastening.
Fig. 3. is a cross section.
and one mode of
Fig. 4. is a longitudinal section of a modified form of pull handle shewing eye
bolt in position and part of chain.
A, is the wooden tubular core which may be of any convenient and suitable form
but which is preferred to round in cross section as shewn by Figure 3.
B, is the surrounding cover of india rubber or other suitable material.
C, is the cord or chain which is shewn by Figure 2, is knotted to hold it in its
place.
D, is the eye bolt which may either be screwed into the core A, or the bolt may
pass right through the core and be fastened by a nut.
If desired the core may be surrounded by a layer or layers, of suitable fibrous or
textile material such for instance as wool or felt.
I do not limit myself in the construction of pull handles to the particular or
peculiar shape shewn in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, the same may be parallel or taper
oval or round rectangular or any other shape with equal advantage without
departing from the nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is.
Claim 1. Constructing covered handles for closets bell pulls window pulls and
similar purposes substantially as for the purpose herein before described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

page_text: Claim 2. The combination and arrangement of handles with a core of hard wood
or other suitable material and covering of softer material such as india rubber
together with an eyebolt such as shewn for sample by Fig. 4.
Dated this 20th day of August 1894.
THOMAS REDFERN LEIGH.