A NEW AND IMPROVED HANDLE FOR CHESTS, TRUNKS, DRAWERS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Henry Butler, of Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Hardware Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"A NEW AND IMPROVED HANDLE FOR CHESTS, TRUNKS, DRAWERS, AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Henry Butler
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd March 1875.
I, JAMES HENRY BUTLER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of
5 Stafford, Hardware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED HANDLE FOR CHESTS, TRUNKS,
DRAWERS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:―
The handle is generally formed of two pieces of metal only, namely,
one piece for the handle plate and one piece for the holding part or
) handle proper, though a back strengthening plate may be used if
desired.
The handle plate is bent to form a rounded horizontal sheath pre-
ferably at or near the middle of the plate. The said sheath is formed

page_text: open all along the back to about the width of the sheath, and is formed
to project sideways on the top side at each end. The bottom of the said
sheath is preferably slightly hollowed to give a better bearing for the
holding part or handle proper.
The holding part or handle proper is formed round at each end, and
the ends are bent to enter into the ends of the said sheath, and fit
therein.
When the holding part or handle proper is raised the ends within the
said sheath bear against the under side thereof, and the top side of the
bends at each end of the holding part or handle proper bear against the
projecting parts at the ends of the said sheath, thus preventing the
holding part or handle proper from being raised further.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Henry Butler in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HENRY BUTLER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Hard-
ware Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said James Henry Butler, Her special
licence that I, the said James Henry Butler, my executors, admi-
mistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Henry
Butler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
_make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "A NEW AND IMPROVED HANDLE FOR CHESTS, TRUNKS, DRAWERS, AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Henry Butler, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention I now proceed
more particularly to describe the manner of performing the same with.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front clevation of a handle constructed according to this
Invention; the holding part or handle proper is shown hanging down,
as when not being used; Figure 2 is a side elevation of Figure 1;.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of Figure 1; and Figure 4 is a view looking
on the top of Figure 1, excepting that in both these views the holding
part or handle proper is shewn in a horizontal position, as when being
used. The same letters indicate the same parts on either view.
A is the handle plate; B, the sheath; C, C, the projections on each
side of the top of the sheath; D is the holding part or handle proper;
E, E, are the rounded ends of the holding part or handle proper, bent to
fit in the sheath. Figures 1 and 2 will readily illustrate the relative
position of the parts when the handle is not being used; in Figure 3 the
under side of one of the rounded parts E of the holding part D is shewn
bearing against the bottom of the sheath B, and (though this cannot be
so distinctly illustrated by this view) a part of the top of the bend,
namely, that at c is shewn bearing against the under side of the pro-
jection C.
This will now be better understood by reference to Figure 4,
where the bends are shewn emerging from under the projection at each
end of the sheath B. In this last-mentioned Figure c, c, are the places
where the tops of the bends bear against the under sides of the projec-
tions C, C. It will readily be seen that by this arrangement, and with
a proper adjustment of the projections C, C, any desired limit may be
fixed to the rise of the holding part D. The small holes shewn in the
handle plate are for the screws or rivets for fixing the handle plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I
declare that as a mechanism similar in principle has been used for
regulating the rise of the holding part or handle proper, but with a
different and as I think inferior arrangement of handle plate, I do not
claim the mechanical arrangement whereby the rise of the holding part
or handle proper is limited per se, but what I claim as my Invention is,
the combination of the holding part or handle proper, having the bent

page_text: ends turned inwards into the sheath, as described and shewn, with
the handle plate (having the sheath formed in the same piece of metal
as the said handle plate), either alone or strengthened, as described and
shewn, and I declare that I do not limit myself to the exact configura-
tion as shewn, as such is not necessary to the utility of the Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Henry Butler, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
JAMES HENRY BUTLER. (L.S.)
Witness,
JAMES A. WYNN,
Clerk to Stephen Watkins,
Patent Office,
Wolverhampton.