Improvements in Trunk, Drawer, and other similar Pivoted Handles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application; 29th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 29th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1887.
Improvements in Trunk, Drawer, and other similar Pivoted Handles.
1, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the firm of A. M. and Wm. Clark, of
53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in pivoted handles generally, such as those
of trunks, boxes, drawers, and similar objects. Heretofore, such handles have been
pivoted in sockets rivetted to the base plate-by which the handle is fixed to the box,
a stop being provided by which the motion of the handle is limited, so that the handle
is retained in the horizontal position when the box is carried.
This Invention has for its object to lessen the cost of manufacture and at the same
time to increase the strength of construction and provide a more secure means of
retaining the handle in its horizontal position, by substituting for sockets rivetted to
the plates, sockets of special form in one with the plates. The pivotal portions may
either be formed by the inwardly or outwardly bent ends to the handle, or by cross
pins inserted through eyes. The socket in which the pivots of the handle are received
are constituted by hollow and slotted bosses formed in one with the same or separate
base plates and they may be formed by stamping up from the said plate or plates, or
by casting therewith. These sockets are prolonged in the form of ribs above the
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page_text: points where the pivoted handle abuts against them so as to increase the strength of
the socket at these points, and to enable them to better resist the strain coming upon
them. With the same object the sockets may be, flanged or thickened at the point
of abutment of the handle. The handles pivot within their sockets in the ordinary
way, and when the two sockets are formed on the same base plate, the pivotal ends
may be bent up, or the cross-pins inserted, after the handles are placed in the sockets,
so that a permanent connection of the handle with the base-plate made. Or, the
base plate may be of such form that the handle already formed with its bent up ends
may be slipped into working position in the sockets.
T
A. MELVILLE CLARK.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trunk, Drawer, and other similar Pivoted Handles.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the firm of A. M. and Wm. Clark, of
53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (a communication to me from
abroad by Jacques Eugène Dollier of Paris France Gentleman) 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 pivoted handles of the kind. used for
trunks, boxes, drawers, and similar objects. Heretofore, such handles have been
pivoted in sockets which are usually rivetted to the base plate by which the handle is
fixed to the box, the sockets forming also abutments by which the motion of the
handle is limited so that, in the case of a box-handle, the handle is retained in the
horizontal position when the weight of the box is supported by it. The sockets in
which the handle is pivoted has also been formed by a plain half round cross groove
stamped up in the base plate itself.
This Invention as compared with rivetted sockets, has for its object to lessen the
cost of manufacture and, as compared with stamped up sockets to increase the
strength of construction and provide a more rigid or unyielding abutment for limiting
the upward motion of the handle, by substituting for the sockets as heretofore used
sockets of special form. The sockets in which the pivots of the handle are received
are constituted by hollow and slotted bosses formed in one with the same or separate
base plates and they may be formed by stamping up from the said plate or plates, or
by casting therewith. These sockets are of special form, being prolonged in the form
of ribs or shoulders, immediately above the points of abutment of the handle, so as to
increase the strength of the sockets at these points and so enable them to better resist
the strain due to the weight of the trunk and the leverage action of the handle. With
the same object, the sockets may be flanged or thickened at the point of abutment of
the handle. The pivotal portions of the handle may be formed either by the inwardly
or outwardly bent ends of the handle, or by cross pins inserted through eyes. They
pivot within their sockets in the ordinary way and when the two sockets are formed
on the same base plate, a permanent connection of the handle with the base plate may
be made by bending the handle to its proper form, or inserting the cross-pins after
the ends are placed in their sockets. Or, the base plate may be of such form, that
the handle already formed with its bent up ends may be slipped into working position
in the sockets.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings. forming part of this
specification wherein the same letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the
figures.
Figure. 0 represents a cross section of a trunk handle as heretofore made with the
sockets for the handle pivots rivetted to the plate. a being the plate, c the handle,
and 6 the sockets. Figure 00 shows a stamped up socket as now made. Figures 1
to 13 show various modifications of my invention.
Figures 1 and 2 are a front view and cross section of one form of my improved
handle socket in which the plate a has two bosses b b struck up to receive the pivotal

page_text: ends c¹ of the handle, these bosses being slotted at d to give passage to the handle as
shown and being extended as at e e so as to reinforce the socket immediately above
the points of abutment of the handle when it is raised, as in Figure 2, in order to
lift the box. The portion of metal removed to form slot d may be left attached to the
plate in the form of a tongue g as in Figure 13, passing up behind the elbow of the
pivoted end of the handle so as to retain the letter in position in the socket before
the plate a is attached to the trunk.
Figure 3 is similar to Figure 1 except that the bosses are in two separate plates a.
Figure 4 is a face view of a modification, differing only from that shown in
Figure 1 in that a single boss is carried across the plate instead of two separate bosses,
and that the pivotal ends of the handle are turned inwards instead of outwards as in
Figure 1, the boss being reinforced by upward extensions e immediately above the
points of abutment of the handle as before."
Figure 5 represents a modification of the form shown in Figure 3 which enables
the handle to be bent to its definite form before its ends are inserted in the sockets of
the plate, whereas the form shown in Figures 1 to 4 necessitates the bending of the
pivotal ends of the handle after they have been inserted through the slots in the bosses
or sockets of the plate.
The figure resembles in this respect the type of handle shown in Figure 00 but
differs therefrom in respect of the reinforcements or ribs e formed by extending the
sockets upwards immediately above the points of abutment of the handle.
Figures 6 and 7 represent a handle differing from that shown in Figures 1 and 2,
principally in the form of the bosses forming the sockets which are not prolonged at
the opposite side to that in which the pivotal ends c¹ of the handle lie as will be readily
understood by an examination of the drawing.
Figures 8 and 9 show a handle differing from that represented in Figures 1 and 2
only in that the elbowed or bent pivotal ends c¹ of the handle are replaced by cross
pins passed through eyes in the ends of the handle and received within the boss or
socket at either side of the slot d.
Figure 10 shows a straight drawer handle similarly pivoted. Figure 11 shows a
trunk handle similarly pivoted and in which the bosses are made in the form of those
rivetted on and are thickened at the points of abutment of the handle by lips or
flanges i.
Figures 12 and 13 are similar to Figure 1 in which the points of abutment are
thickened by lips or flanges i and in which the pivotal ends of the handle are retained
in their sockets by tongues g as above mentioned formed of the portion of metal
partly cut out to make the slot d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The herein described improvement in the handles of trunks, boxes, drawers, and
similar articles which consists in forming the socket or sockets wherein the handle is
pivoted, of a hollow boss or bosses struck up or otherwise formed in one with the
plate, the said boss or bosses being reinforced by an extension or extensions thereof
immediately above the point or points of abutment of the handle substantially as
described and illustrated in the drawings, whether the pivots of the handle are formed
by bending up the ends, or by cross pins inserted therein.
Dated this 29th day of April 1987