Fastening Tubular Handles or Legs to Culinary Vessels and Gridirons.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Fastening Tubular Handles or Legs to Culinary Vessels and
Gridirons.
ARTHUR CRESWELL of 28 Church Road Coseley, Pattern Turner, and RICHARD
CLAYTON of Coseley in the County of Stafford Ironfounder, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention refers to the means of fastening tubular handles or legs on to
saucepans, stewpans, frypans, gridirons, pots and other articles of hollow-ware. On
the article we cast a hollow socket with a small hole cast or drilled in, and inside
same a plug with a small hole cast or drilled in, opposite the hole in the socket.
We then force the handle or leg into the socket, sufficient space being left between
the inside diameter of the socket and the plug to admit the handle, the handle is
then driven down, a punch is then placed in the small hole in the socket and a blow
is given with a hammer, when the handle is indented by the punch into the hole in
the plug thereby preventing the handle or leg being withdrawn. The socket &
plug can either be cast with sand cores or with a chill.
Dated this 14th day of May 1892.
ARTHUR CRESWELL.
RICHARD CLAYTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Fastening Tubular Handles or Legs to Culinary Vessels and
Gridirons.
We ARTHUR CRESWELL of 28 Church Road, Coseley, in the County of
Stafford, Pattern Turner, and RICHARD CLAYTON, of Coseley aforesaid, Iron-
founder, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide means for fastening tubular handles or
legs to saucepans, stewpans, frying pans, gridirons, pots or other articles of hollow
ware, in a simple and effective manner.
In carrying our invention into practice we cast a solid metal plug inside and at
the root or base of the hollow socket which is itself cast on the side of the saucepan
or other article of hollow ware. In the socket we form a hole passing completely
through the metal and opposite to said hole, and about equal to it in size, we form
a recess or cavity in the plug. The plug is of such size as to allow just sufficient
space between it and the socket for the insertion of the tubular handle. To fasten
the handle it is inserted into the annular space between the plug and socket
and driven down as far as needful. A punch or other tool is then placed in the
hole in the socket and struck with a hammer or other tool causing the material of
the tubular handle to become indented into the recess or cavity formed in the plug,
thereby securely fastening the tubular handle or leg and preventing it from being
withdrawn.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of part of a saucepan or
other article of hollow ware with the handle fitted thereto in accordance with our
invention, and Figure 2 is a section on the line X X of Figure 1. A represents
the socket, and B the plug cast in the interior thereof, the width of the space
between the plug and the socket being equal to the thickness of the handle C.
a represents the hole in the socket, and 6 the recess or cavity in the plug, which
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page_text: said cavity is about equal in diameter to and coincides in position with the hole a.
To insure that the hole a and recess 6 are coincident and of equal or nearly equal
diameter, the socket and plug are cast together and a drill or like cutting tool is
. used to form the hole a in the socket. When the drill or tool has penetrated
completely through the metal of the socket, it is kept working until it reaches the
plug B and forms therein the recess or cavity b to a depth about equal to the
annular space between the socket and plug, it may then be withdrawn. The hole a
and the cavity may however be cast with the socket and plug or may be other-
(-wise formed therein. The socket and plug may be cast with sand cores or by
means of a chill, but when cast with a chill the hole and cavity will require to be
cast with the socket and plug as will be understood.
b
From the foregoing description it will be obvious that when the tubular handle
or leg C is driven into the annular space between the socket A and the plug B,
and a punch or other tool passed through the hole a in the plug, and struck with a
smart blow, that the metal of the tubular handle or leg which is immediately over
the cavity or recess b will be indented thereinto, as shewn in Figure 2, thereby
forming a firm and substantial fastening between the tubular handle or leg and the
socket and plug.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
'tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The method herein described of fastening tubular handles or legs to saucepans
or other articles of hollow ware, consisting of a socket having a plug cast in its
interior of such size as to leave an annular space between it and the socket just
sufficiently large to take the tubular handle or leg, said socket having a hole
formed therethrough coinciding in position with, and about equal in diameter to, a
recess or cavity formed in the plug, into which said cavity or recess, part of the
metal of the handle or leg is driven substantially as described and shewn and for
the purpose stated.
Dated this 28th day of December 1892.
A. CRESWELL.
R. CLAYTON.