Improvements in the Construction of Handles for Coffins and other Artioles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1887
Complete Left, 2nd Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 9th Mar., 1888
Improvements in the Construction of Handles for Coffins and
other Artioles.
I, JAMES GORDON, of 30, Leopold Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to those handles for coffins and other articles which are
fixed by a screw or screws passing from the outside through the loops which engage
with the ends of the handle and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described
in hinging or connecting the handle proper to the loops.
According to my invention I dispense with the usual pips or cylindrical ends of the
handle proper which engage in holes in the loops and instead thereof I provide a
projecting pip on each loop to engage with a corresponding hole in each end of the
handle.
The loops above described can either be employed outside the handle that is to say
with their pips pointing towards each other so that the handle hangs down between
them, or they can be employed between the ends of the handle, their pips pointing in
opposite directions and engaging in holes in the inside of the handle.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Handles for Coffins and
other Articles.
I, JAMES GORDON, of 30, Leopold Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Coffin
Furniture Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention has reference to those handles for coffins and other articles which are!
fixed by a screw or screws passing from the outside through the loops which engage
with the ends of the handle, and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described
in hinging or connecting the handle proper to the loops.
According to my invention I dispense with the usual pips or cylindrical ends of the
handle proper which engage in holes in the loops and instead thereof I provide a
projecting pip on each loop to engage with a corresponding hole in each end of the
handle.
The loops above described can either be employed outside the handle that is to say
with their pips pointing towards each other so that the handle hangs down between
them or they can be employed between the ends of the handle their pips pointing in
opposite directions and engaging in holes in the inside of the handle.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which my said invention is to be performed.
Fig. 1 is a front view partly in section of a coffin handle constructed according to
my invention in which the so called "loops" are outside the handle proper; Fig. 2 is
a part sectional plan of the same; Fig. 3 shews part of the handle proper and Fig. 4
shews one of the so called "loops" of the same separately and Fig. 5 illustrates my
invention applied to a handle in which the loops are between the ends of the handle.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, both inclusive, A is the handle
proper and B, B are the two loops of the same. Each of the loops B, B is fixed to
the coffin side F by an ordinary wood screw c passing through a central hole b in the
loop from the outside as is now done in some other coffin handles. d, d are the two
pips formed respectively with the loops B, B and projecting from the side thereof and
engaging in corresponding holes e, e in the end of the handle proper A so that the
handle A can turn on these pips as a centre.
This arrangement enables the loops and their fixing screws to be brought as near
as possible to the ends of the handle and thus lessens the strain on the loops and
screws.
In the handle A' represented by Fig. 5 the loops B, B are constructed each with a
.projecting side pip d similarly to the handle illustrated by the preceeding Figures but

page_text: they are fixed nearer together and between the ends of the handle proper and their
pips d, d point in opposite directions but in the same line so as to engage in corre-
sponding holes e¹, e¹, formed in the handle proper.
My invention can be applied to cabinet handles and to other handles where the
loops are fixed by a screw passing from the outside through the loops similarly as
above described with reference to a coffin handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1st. The hereinhefore described improvements in the construction of handles for
coffins and other articles, consisting in providing a projecting side pip on each of the
loops (said loops each having a through fixing screw hole as described) and a hole in
or near each end of the handle in which the said pips engage substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated.
2nd. A handle loop B having a through fixing screw hole b and a side projecting
pip d for engaging in a hole in the end of a swing handle, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 12th day of January 1888.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.