Improvements in Comn Furniture.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1895
Improvements in Comn Furniture.
I, WALTER NICHOLLS of 196 Arthur Street, Small Heath, in the City of
Birmingham, Coffin Furniture Manufacturers' Manager, 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 improvements in coffin handles and similar attachments
and in the method of attaching the handle, grip, or like part to the handle plate
or back plate.
The objects of my invention are to construct a neat and simple attachment and
to so for the handle, grip, or like part, that it may be more readily and securely
connected to the handle plate or back plate than by the methods of attachment at
present in ordinary use.
In order that my invention and method of carrying the same into effect may be
the more readily understood I append hereunto one sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to.
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation representing a tubular
or like handle secured by my improved attachments to its handle or back plate.
Figure 3 is an elevation representing my attachment as applied to a cast or like
handle or grip.
Figure 4 is an elevation and Figure 5 a plan of another form of grip.
Figure 6 is a front elevation and Figure 7 an end elevation representing one
convenient form of my attachment or connecting bracket.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The handle A Figures 1 and 2 is made preferably from a twisted or other tube
in the ordinary manner, attached to the lower ends of the stamped or other arina
such as B and provided with terminal pieces A. At the opposite ends of the arms B,
I attach or form pins or bearing pieces B' having keys or stop pieces B' at their
outer ends.
Instead of a tubular or built up handle I sometimes employ a handle or grip cast
or formed in one piece as illustrated at Figure 3, and also at Figures 4 and 5, each
of the pins or bearing pieces having a key or stop piece B formed or secured
at its outer end.
The handle or grip is connected to the handle plate or back plate C, by
means of the attachments or brackets D; one convenient form of the attach-
ment D is shown to a larger scale at Figures 6 and 7. I secure the brackets
to the handle plate C preferably by meaus of hollow or tubular rivets or eyelets
in order that the plate may be secured to the coffin by small screws passing
through the oyelets, thus avoiding the use of split clamping pins or other
projecting parts on the inside of the coffin.
Before the attachments or brackets D are rivetted or secured to the back
plate or handle plate, they are united to the handle or grip by passing them
on to the ends or bearing pieces B', with the keys or stop pieces B in the
position shown at Figure 7, and when thus placed in position the handle or the
attachments are turned until the key or stop piece B' on each of the pins or
bearing pieces is brought to the position shown by dotted lines at Figure 7.
The bandle is thus connected to the brackets without the use of independent
or separate pivot pins or rivets, and by this improved form of attachment tho
parts may be readily connected or disconnected as required. I do not limit

page_text: the application of my invention to any particular design or pattern of coffin
furniture, and I modify the parts and the arrangement of the same to suit the
requirements of varying services.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved method of attaching a coffin handle, grip, or like part, to
the handle or back plate, by means of attachments or brackets united with the
pins or bearing pieces of the handle, grip, or like part, substantially as herein
described.
2. In coffin furniture tho uso of an attachment or bracket for uniting with the
handle, grip, or like part, without an independent pivot or similar connection,
substantially as and for the purposes herciabefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
3. The construction of a coffin handle, grip, or like part, having end pins or
bearing pieces provided with keys or stop pieces for engagement with the
attachments or brackets, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In coffin furniture the use of hollow or tubular rivets or eyelets for the
purpose of securing the combined bandle and bracket to the back plate, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes hereiubefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
5. The improved general construction and arrangement of coffin furniture
substantially as herein described.
DL:
1 1007
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.