Improvements in Coffin Handles and other Drop or Cabinet Handles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th June, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles and other Drop or Cabinet
Handles.
We, CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON, trading as
No. 27 Scholefield Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coffin
Charles Rollason, of
Furniture Manufacturer, and AARON JAMES BONEHILL, of No. 129 Lennox
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, Designer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in coffin
handles and other drop or cabinet handles, the object of the said invention being
so to construct the said handles as to simplify their manufacture and to facilitate
their attachment to the coffin, drawer or other article and to avoid the rattling of
the handles as well as to increase the steadiness of the said handles.
We will describe the said invention in connection with a coffin handle.
The coffin handles to which the said invention has reference are commonly called
centre fixed handles, that is, the handle is made in the form of a loop and is
without side pivots and is connected to the coffin at the middle of the top portion
of the handle by a centre piece or boss provided at its back with clinching pins
for fixing it to the coffin. The top portion of the loop, which constitutes the
axis of the handle, is supported by and turns in the said fixed centre piece or
boss.
By constructing coffin handles according to the improvements constituting this
invention, the middle fixed centre piece or boss herein before referred to is dispensed
with and the handle otherwise improved as hereinafter described.
In constructing a coffin handle according to this invention we give it a loop form
and provide the middle of the nearly straight top portion of the loop with a
projecting inclined stop for limiting the position to which the handle can be lifted;
that is, the said middle stop is somewhat inclined out of the plane of the handle
so that when the handle is in its normal or hanging position it projects outwards
from the coffin. On lifting the handle by its bow or lower portion until it makes
an angle of, say, forty five degrees with the coffin, the middle stop bears against
the coffin and the further lifting of the handle is prevented.
For the purpose of supporting the handle and attaching it to the coffin, we make
on the upper portion of the handle and near each end of the middle stop described,
a neck or annular contraction and we use in connection with the said necks,
doubled clinching pins. That is, we take a steel or ductile wire of the required
ength and double it at its middle, the bend of the doubled wire being formed into
an eye. The eyes of the doubled clinching pins are closed or sprung upon the
ecks in the top portion of the handle so as to connect the said pins to the
andle and in this condition the handle is sent into commerce and is ready to be
xed.
In attaching the handle to the coffin, the doubled clinching pins thus combined
ith the handle are passed through holes in the coffin and their ends opened out
r clinched on the inside of the coffin. The handle is in this way supported and
onnected to the coffin by the eyes of the clinching pins engaged in the necks in
be upper part of the handle, the said necks on the motion of the handle turning
the said eyes as axes.

page_text: Instead of clinching the eyed fixing pins on the inside of the coffin, the closed
branches of the said pins may be screwed at their ends and after the said pins
have been passed through the holes in the coffin, screw nuts are fitted upon the
said screwed ends inside the coffin for fixing the handle to the coffin.
We apply our improvements to drop or cabinet handles substantially in the
manner herein before described with respect to coffin handles.
Dated this Twentieth day of September 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Coffin Handles and other Drop or Cabinet
Handles.
We CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON trading as Charles Rollason, of
No. 27 Scholefield Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, and AARON JAMES BONEHILL, of No. 129 Lennox
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, Designer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in coffin
handles and other drop or cabinet handles, the object of the said invention being
so to construct the said handles as to simplify their manufacture and to facilitate
their attachment to the coffin, drawer or other article and to avoid the rattling of
the handles as well as to increase the steadiness of the said handles.
We will describe the said invention in connection with a coffin handle.
The coffin handles to which the said invention has reference are commonly
called centre fixed handles, that is, the handle is made in the form of a loop and
is without side pivots and is connected to the coffin at the middle of the top portion
of the handle by a centre piece or boss provided at its back with clinching pins
for fixing it to the coffin. The top portion of the loop which constitutes the axis
of the handle is supported by and turns in the said fixed centre piece or boss.
By constructing coffin handles according to the improvements constituting this
invention, the middle fixed centre piece or boss hereinbefore referred to is dispensed
with and the handle otherwise improved as hereinafter described.
In constructing a coffin handle according to this invention we give it a loop
form and provide the middle of the nearly straight top portion of the loop with
a projecting inclined stop for limiting the position to which the handle can be
lifted; that is, the said middle stop is somewhat inclined out of the plane of the
handle so that when the handle is in its normal or hanging position it projects
outwards from the coffin. On lifting the handle by its bow or lower portion until
it makes an angle, say, of forty five degrees with the coffin, the middle stop bears
against the coffin and the further lifting of the handle is prevented.
For the purpose of supporting the handle and attaching it to the coffin, we
make on the upper portion of the handle and near each end of the middle stop
described, a neck or annular contraction and we use in connection with the said
necks, doubled clinching pins, that is, we take a steel or ductile wire of the
required length and double it at its middle, the bend of the doubled wire being
formed into an eye.
The eyes of the doubled clinching pins are closed or sprung
upon the necks in the top portion of the handle so as to connect the said pins
to the handle and in this condition the handle is sent into commerce and is ready
to be fixed.
In attaching the handle to the coffin the doubled clinching pins thus combined
with the handle are passed through holes in the coffin and their ends opened out

page_text: or clinched on the inside of the coffin. The handle is in this way supported and
connected to the coffin by the eyes of the clinching pins engaged in the necks in
the upper part of the handle, the said necks on the motion of the handle turning
in the said eyes as axes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation and
Figures 2, 3 and 4 in vertical section a centre fixed coffin handle constructed
according to this invention applied to a coffin. The sections Figures 2 and 3 are
taken on the dotted line a, a Figure 1 and the section Figure 4 is taken on the
dotted line 7, 6 Figure 1; Figure 5 represents a section of the handle detached.
The other figures represent modified handles' as hereinafter described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
c, is the loop shaped handle and the middle top portion of the loop shaped
handle, the said middle part in this arrangement constituting a stop as hereinafter
described. It will be seen that the middle stop portion of the handle projects
somewhat out of the plane of the grip part e so that when the handle is in its
normal or hanging position it projects outwards from the coffin (see Figures 2 and 4).
The top of the middle stop portion c³ of the handle is inclined and when the handle
is lifted by its grip or lower portion c until it makes an angle of about 45 degrees
with the coffin, the said middle stop bears against the coffin and the further
lifting of the handle is prevented as represented in Figure 3.
On the upper
portion of the loop or bow shaped handle and near each side of the middle stop c
is a neck or contraction c* (best seen in Figure 5) for the eyes or loops d, d of the
clinching pins d, to engage in for supporting the handle. The lower gripping
part of the handle, its top portion c², in which the necks or contractions are
formed, together with the middle stop portion c³ are all cast or made in one piece
as seen in Figure 5.
For fixing the handle to the coffin we take a steel or ductile wire of the required
length and double it at its middle the bend of the doubled wire being formed into
the eye or loop d. The eyes or loops d, d of the doubled straight clinching pins
are closed or sprung upon the necks or contractions c, c at the ends of the middle
stop of the handle so as to connect the said clinching pins to the handle, which
handle is in this condition sent into commerce and is ready to be fixed. To attach
the handle to the coffin the straight doubled clinching pins d, d' are passed through
holes in the coffin and their ends opened out and clinched on the inside of the
cuffin as represented in Figures 2, 3 and 4 so as thereby to attach the handle to
the coffin, the handle being supported by the eyes d, d of the clinching pins d², d
in which said eyes the uecks c, ct of the handle turn when the said handle is lifted
and allowed to fall.
Instead of clinching the eyed fixing pins on the inside of the coffin for the
purpose of attaching the handle, the closed branches of the said pins may be made
shorter and screwed at their ends and after the said pins have been passed through
the holes in the coffin, screw nuts are fitted upon the said screwed ends, inside the
coffin, for fixing the handle to the coffin.
The middle top part of the handle instead of acting as a stop for limiting the
angle at which the bow or lower part c can be lifted the said middle part may be
curved at top and its plane eo arranged with respect to that of the lower part c
hat the handle can be turned in the supporting eyes of the fixing pins through a
emi-circle.
This modification is represented in front elevation in Figure 6 and vertical
ection in Figure 7. By an examination of Figure 7 it will be seen that the
middle part of the handle is practically in the same plane as the grip or lower
art c and that the curved top of the middle part projects slightly above the
ops of the necks or contractions c, c which turn in the eyes or loops of the
xing pins. This construction of the middle part c³ of the handle permits
he handle to turn through a semi-circle. The handle is indicated in dotted lines
Figure 7 lifted beyond a right angle.

page_text: Or the middle part c³, made as represented in Figures 6 and 7, may be used
with stops at the ends of the handle beyond the necks or contractions c, e for
limiting the lifting of the handle to about a right angle as represented in side
elevation in Figure 8 and section in Figure 9, where the end stops situated at a
higher level than the top of the middle part 3 of the handle are marked c, c.
The said stops c, c when the handle has been lifted through nearly a quadrant
abut against the coffin and prevent the further lifting of the handle as indicated
in dotted lines in Figure 9.
Although we have represented the stop in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 as constructed
to limit the motion of the handle to an angle of about 45 degrees and the end
stops represented in Figures 8 and 9 as constructed to limit the motion of the
handle to an angle of about 90 degrees yet the said stops may be constructed so
that the handles may have motion through other required angles.
We apply our improvements to drop or cabinet handles substantially in the
manner hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect to coffin handles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention of "Improvements in coffin handles and other drop or
cabinet handles."
First. In centre fixed handles, the combination with the loop part c, cand
middle part of the handle, of the necks or contractions e, et made in the ends of
the axial part of the handle, that is, on either side of the middle part c³, in which
necks or contractions the eyes or loops of the clinching or other fixing pins
engage, the several parts of the handle being made or cast in one piece substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The combination with handles of the kind claimed in the former
claim, of the middle stop represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the end
stops represented in Figures 8 and 9 for limiting the motion of the handle
through an angle of about 45 degrees or through an angle of about 90 degrees
or other required angle substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Third day of June 1896.
CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON.
AARON JAMES BONEHILL.