An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Handles for Buckets, Saucepans, Kettles, and other Vessels and Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic
Handles for Buckets, Saucepans, Kettles, and other Vessels and
Articles.
I THOMAS HENRY ASH of the Firm of Joseph Ash and Son of Rea Street South
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Iron Plate Workers and Galvanizers do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
My invention consists in manufacturing metallic handles for buckets saucepans
kettles and other vessels and articles by making and connecting to the body of the
handle a sheet metal tubular grip in the manner herein after described.
I will describe my invention in connection with a bucket handle.
I make the arch shaped body of the handle in the ordinary way the said body being
either trough shaped or flat or of other sectional figure.
In making the tubular grip I cut out at a press or stamp a sheet metal blank of an
oblong form the ends of the blank being provided with ears or connecting pieces.
By means of shaping tools or by a hand process the body of the blank is fashioned
into a tubular figure. There is thus formed a tubular grip having at its ends flat cars
or connecting pieces. The tubular grip is secured to the middle of the body of the
handle by passing the handle through the tubular grip and when the grip is in its
proper position closing its ears or connecting pieces upon the body of the handle the
edges of the said ears or connecting pieces being turned over the edges of the
body. The grip is thereby securely connected to the body of the handle. Instead
of shaping the tubular grip before it is placed on the body of the handle the shaping
of the said grip and the closing of the ears or connecting pieces of the grip may be
effected at the same time that is the middle of the handle being laid on the flat blank
its body part is fashioned into a tubular grip and the ears or connecting pieces closed
upon the handle at the same operation.
In making handles for saucepans kettles and other vessels and articles I proceed in
the manner herein before described with respect to a bucket bandle.
Dated this Second day of June 1886
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic
Handles for Buckets, Saucepans, Kettles, and other Vessels and
Articles.
I THOMAS HENRY ASH of the firm of Joseph Ash and Son of Rea Street South,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Iron Plate Workers and Galvanizers do
hereby declare the nature of my 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 consists in manufacturing metallic handles for buckets, saucepans
kettles and other vessels and articles by making and connecting to the body of the
handle a sheet metal tubular grip in the manner herein after described.
I will describe my invention in connection with a bucket handle.
I make the arch shaped body of the handle in the ordinary way, the said body being
either trough shaped or flat or of other sectional figure.
In making the tubular grip I either cut out at a press or stamp a sheet metal blank
of an oblong form the ends of the blank having parts from which the ears or con-
necting pieces are made. Or I cut long strips from sheet metal by means of a pair of
shears and divide the strips into blanks and shape from the ends of the blanks the
parts from which the ears or connecting pieces are made. By means of shaping tools
or by a hand process the body of the blank is fashioned into a tubular figure. There
is thus formed a tubular grip having at its ends ears or connecting pieces. The
tubular grip is secured to the middle of the body of the handle by passing the handle
through the tubular grip and when the grip is in its proper position closing its ears or
connecting pieces upon the body of the handle, the edges of the said cars or con-
necting pieces being turned over the edges of the body. The grip is thereby securely
connected to the body of the handle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation and Figure 2
in plan a bucket bandle provided with a tubular grip made and connected to the
handle according to my invention; Figure 3 represents a cross section of the same
taken on the line a a Figure 2. Figure 4 represents in side elevation; Figure 5 in plan
and Figure 6 in end elevation the tubular grip before it is fixed on the bucket handle.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing.
b, b is the bucket handle having by preference a trough figure in cross section as
seen in Figure 3 but I wish it to be understood that the tubular grip made and
connected according to my invention may be applied to flat, oval or cylindrical handles
and handles of other sectional figures.
The sheet metal tubular grip is marked c and the ears or connecting pieces at its
ends are marked d, d. The tubular grip c and its ears or connecting pieces d, d are
formed from a sheet metal oblong blank made as before described, the said blank

page_text: having at its shorter ends parts from which the cars or connecting pieces d, d are
made. The blank is fashioned into the combined tubular grip c and ears or connecting
pieces d, d Figures 4, 5 and 6 preferably by shaping tools worked in a stamp or press.
As the method of and tools used in raising or shaping the blank into the tubular grip
and ear pieces Figures 4, 5 and 6 do not differ in any essential manner from the
ordinary process and tools used for shaping sheet metal for various purposes I do not
think a description of the said process and tools necessary.
After the tubular grip has been made it is secured to the middle of the body b of
the bucket handle by passing the handle through the tubular gripe and when the
grip is in its proper position closing its cars or connecting pieces d, d upon the body
of the handle the edges of the said cars or connecting pieces d, d being turned over
the edges of the body b and being pressed closely in contact with the trough of the
said handle as represented in Figures 2 and 3. The handle is thus provided with a
tubular grip by which the handle is held when in use.
Instead of shaping the tubular grip c, d before it is placed on the body of the
handle the shaping of the said grip and the closing of the ears or connecting pieces
of the grip may be effected at the same time; that is, the middle of the handle b
being laid on the flat blank its body part is fashioned into a tubular grip and the cross
pieces or ears at the ends of the blank are closed upon the handle at the same opera-
tion but I prefer to carry my invention into effect in the manner herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In making handles for saucepans kettles and other vessels and articles I proceed in
the manner herein before described and illustrated with respect to a bucket handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my inven-
tion of "An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of metallic handles
for buckets saucepans kettles and other vessels and articles"-
Making a sheet metal tubular grip with ears or connecting pieces at its ends
substantially as herein before described and illustrated and securing the said tubular
grip to the bucket or other handle by closing or turning over the cars or connecting
pieces upon or over the edges of the body of the handle, whether the tubular grip be
shaped before the ears or connecting pieces are closed upon the handle or the shaping
of the tubular grip and the closing of the ears or connecting pieces of the grip upon
the handle be effected at one operation substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this highteenth day of February 1887