Improvements in Handles for Furniture Drawers and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1892-Accepted. 3rd Dec.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Furniture Drawers and the like.
I, STANISLAUS REUSCHEL of 11, Dod Street, Limehouse, London, Journalist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to handles for furniture drawers and the like and has for
its purpose to provide improved means for fixing and detaching the handle.
The improvements are in the main as follows:-
The two studs are not rivetted to the plate and the latter fixed by screws on the
wood, but the plate is attached and the studs are fixed in the wood by means of
wood screws integral with the studs, so that the strain produced by drawing is.
exerted only on the places where the screws are put in and not on the plate.
My improved method allows of easy detachment of the handle and plate by
taking off the handle and unscrewing the studs. To admit of the handle being
detached, one of the studs has a recess directed upward at a certain angle from the
plate and corresponding in shape to the respective handle end, which can thus be
introduced and taken out only in a certain position.
In lieu of a simple recess, also a crescent shaped or curved or any such recess
may be used with corresponding shape of the handle end-that the falling out of
the handle is precluded.
Dated this 1st day of February 1892
HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Furniture Drawers and the like.
I, STANISLAUS REUSCHEL, Engineer, of 11, Dod Street, Limehouse, in the
County of London, 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 has for its object, to provide better and more convenient means
for fixing and detaching the handles of furniture drawers and similar objects.
Hitherto it has been usual, to secure drop handles to the drawer, by pivoting
them to a pair of studs rivetted to a brass plate, which in its turn is fixed to the
wood by screws.
1 simplify the construction by fixing the studs and the plate by means of wood
screws integral with the studs, so that each wood screw forms a prolongation of
a stud, or that the head of each screw is enlarged so as to form one of the said
socket-studs, and I provide one of the studs with a special recess for introducing
the pivot of the drop handle from one side, or from below as will be seen from the
accompanying drawings, of which;
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a handle and fastening embodying my invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 shows one of the two screw studs in detail, and
Figs. 4 and are separate views of the drop handle.
A represents the drop handle the pivots of which a, are turned inward and have
flat or elongated cross section.
B Bare the hollow screw heads or the socket studs, into which the pivot holes
are drilled from one side. bbare the wood. screws which are provided with
houlders &b, fitting into circular holes drilled into the metallic face plate C.
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page_text: For fixing such a handle, I first place the face plate C in position, then I introduce
the points of the wood screws into the holes of the face plate and fix them in the
wood. Subsequently I place the drop handle approximately in position, introduce
one of its pivots radially into the socket of the balled head B, and then the other
pivot into the socket of the balled head B¹ from below, through the oblique
recess 1,2.
The said recess which forms an essential part of the present device, has a
slanting position, that is to say, it is directed upward at an acute angle with the
face plate, and its width corresponds to the thickness (or smaller diameter) of the
pivot, which, as mentioned above has not a circular, but an elongated cross section,
as indicated by Fig. 8. Consequently, the handle can only be removed from the
socket in a certain direction (neither vertical nor horizontal) and when the handle
occupies a certain position.
Instead of making the said slot 2 straight, it may be curved in any suitable
manner. For screwing the studs into the wood, it is advantageous, to employ a
special tool as hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings Figs. 6 and 7.
The tool is made of brass or other suitable metal and somewhat similar to a pair
of pliers. It consists of 4 principal parts, namely;
A pair of jaws D E adapted to grasp the balled head B or B¹, a spindle F
adapted to press the jaws together, and a spindle guide G to which the lower
jaw D is rigidly fixed, or with which it forms one piece, the said guide G being
also provided with a pair of cross handles gg.
The fixed jaw D is provided with a pind which fits into the hole or socket of the
head B or B which receives a pivot a of the drop handle A. The moveable jaw
is secured to the fixed jaw by a pivot e and pivoted at its front end with a curved
edge or recess, to fit the neck of the balled head, while its rear end forms a heel
piece e provided with a slanting or rounded rear edge.
In the position shown by Fig. 7, the mouth of the tool is open and ready to
receive the balled head.
When the latter has been introduced, the jaws are closed together by pressing
forward the spindle F, the front end of which is wedge shaped, and enters between
the rear ends of the two jaws, as illustrated by Fig. 6.
By pressing the tool forward against the wood and simultaneously turning it
with the handle, g, g, the screw b is caused to enter the wood. Subsequently, the
same means may be used for withdrawing the screw from the wood. The peculiar
construction of the jaws ensures the upright position of the screw stud during the
act of fixing or removing the same.
The spindle F is guided in the block G in such a manner, that the spindle
cannot turn on its axis independently of the block G.
At its rear end the spindle F may be connected with a spring screw driver
or a ratchet brace, in such a manner, that by alternately pressing the said screw
driver or brace forward, and withdrawing it, the spindle F and consequently the
entire tool is caused to revolve in one direction.
The pin fixed to the spindle F near the front end of the same, serves as a stop
to prevent the spindle F from being withdrawn too far.
In Fig. 7, the tool is combined with a spring screw driver H, the construction
of which is publicly known and therefore need not be described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A handle for furniture drawers and similar objects, comprising in its con-
struction a drop handle provided with a pair of pivots, and a pair of screw studs
containing the sockets for the said pivots, one of the said studs having also a
slanting or curved recess for introducing the corresponding pivot from the side,
substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 2. The combination of a drop handle A, with a pair of wood screws having
balled socket heads B, B', and a face plate C having holes corresponding to the
shoulders of the said screw, substantially as described and illustrated by the
drawings.
Dated this 31st day of October 1892.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents.