Improvements in Securing Handles to Saucepans, Stew Pans, and certain other Cooking Utensils, and in a Tool to be employed therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Handles to Saucepans, Stew Pans, and
certain other Cooking Utensils, and in a Tool to be employed
therefor.
We, HIRAM FRENCH, of 100, Lyttleton Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire,
Foreman, THOMAS DUDLEY of 30, Bromford Road, Oldbury, Worcestershire,
Pattern Maker, THOMAS MALLIN, of 16, Red Cow Yard, West Bromwich,
aforesaid, Fitter, JOHN PASS, of 2, Brett Street, West Bromwich, aforesaid,
Planisher, EDWIN CHESSHIRE of Newhall Street, in the City of Birmingham, and
JOHN HENRY CHESSHIRE, of Old Meeting Street, West Bromwich, aforesaid,
the last two named trading together as Izons and Company, Ironfounders and
Hollow-ware Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in the herein-described improvements in securing tubular
metal handles in the cast sockets of saucepans stew pans frying pans and other
cooking utensils which have tubular handles and cast metal sockets for the same
whereby the said handles are very easily secured to the sockets and when so secured
the handles are effectually prevented from becoming loose or being turned round in
or pulled out of the said sockets and this invention consists further in an improved
tool for use in securing the said handles in the sockets as aforesaid.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which
Fig. 1 represents a saucepan handle with its smaller end formed in accordance
with this invention ready to be secured to the saucepan socket shewn in sectional
plan by Fig. 2 and in front elevation by Fig. 2*;
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a sectional elevation and plan of the same handle
inserted in the socket and Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a sectional plan and
elevation of the same when the handle has been secured by the tool shewn by
Fig. 11;
Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate a slightly modified form of this invention; and
Figs. 9 and 10 shew how the tool is used.
The same letters and numerals. indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 2*, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 A is
the tubular metal handle and B the saucepan having a cast socket C in which the
handle A will fit and is required to be secured. According to one method of
carrying out this invention we indent each side of the handle at the smaller end of
the same so as to form two external longitudinal recesses marked respectively a' a'
extending from the smaller end of the handle for a short distance up the same (see
Fig. 1) and in the socket we cast four inwardly projecting pegs or pips c'c³¹
(see Figs. 2 and 2*) two of these pegs or pips being on one side of the socket and
two on the other side thereof corresponding with the grooves a¹ a² in the handle.
The said tool (see Figs. 9, 10 and 11) consists of a round stem D adapted for
inserting in the open end a³ of the handle and long enough to reach to the bottom
of the same and formed with a handle end d¹ or otherwise made so that it can be
turned round. At a short distance from the working end of the stem D of the tool
there are formed four inclined bits or projections marked respectively d³ d³ d' d³
the two bits or projections d d being on one side of the stem D and the other two
bits or projections d d being on the other side thereof. When the stem D of the
tool is pushed into the handle until its lower end rests on the bottom of the socket
as shewn by Figs. 9 and 10 the bits or projections d' d' correspond with the space

page_text: between the pegs or pips c¹ and the bottom of the socket; and the bits or
projections dd correspond with the spaces between the pegs or pips c¹ c³ and those
marked c3 ct.
To secure the handle A in the socket C the handle is first driven into the socket
as far as it will go, the pegs or pips c1 c2 and 3 c taking into the grooves a¹ a³ as
shewn in Figs. 3, 4 and 9. The tool D is now pushed down the handle until the
lower end of the tool rests upon the bottom of the socket C as shewn in Figs. 9
and 10. The tool D is now turned round or partly round which causes
the inclined bits and d' d to force out to their original form those parts
of the indentations a' a' which are between the pips or pegs and the bottom of
the socket and between the pips or pegs ee and those marked c² c thus giving to
the handle the form shewn by Figs. 5, 6 and 10 and effectually preventing the
handle being either withdrawn from the socket or shaking or turning round therein.
The tool can now be removed.
Although the above described is what we have found to answer best in practice
it is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the use of two longitudinal
indentations a¹ a² in the handle A and four pegs or pips ec2 c c cast in the socket,
as it will be evident that more or fewer than four pegs or pips might be used in
the socket C in combination with the indentations a¹ a in the handle as shewn for
instance in Figs. 7 and 8 where only two pegs or pips care employed. In this
case two of the inclined bits that is the bits d' on the tool D are dispensed with.
Or in a very large handle there may be three or even four indentations similar to
those marked a a² and arranged at equal distances apart around the end of the
handle and corresponding pegs or pips in the socket; or there may be only one
indentation a' in the handle and corresponding peg or pip or pegs or pips cast in
the socket; in this latter case the bit or bits are made only on one side of the
tool D as shewn for instance by Fig. 12.
This invention is applied to securing handles to stew-pans frying pans and other
cooking utensils which have tubular handles and cast metal sockets for the same in
the same way as herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawings with reference to securing handles to saucepans.
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 :-
1. The improvements in securing tubular metal handles in the cast sockets of
saucepans stew pans and other cooking utensils hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings consisting in making one or more side indentations
(such as a a) at the smaller end of the handle and one or more corresponding pips
or pegs (such as c¹ c c c) in the socket and then after the handle has been pushed
in the said socket forcing out portions of the said indentations between or beyond
the said pips or pegs on the sockets so that the handle and the socket will be
engaged together in the manner substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. The manufacture and sale of saucepans stewpans and other cooking utensils
in which the tubular metal handles are secured in the cast sockets in the manner
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. For securing the tubular metal handles in the cast sockets of saucepans
stewpans and other cooking utensils the use of the tool D constructed and adapted
for use in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of December 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.