Improvements in or connected with Handles or Pulls for Water Closet Flushing Cisterns, Blinds, Bells, Window Sashes, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Handles or Pulls for Water
Closet Flushing Cisterns, Blinds, Bells, Window Sashes, and
the like.
I. ROBERT GEORGE LAING BURN, of 23 Charing Cross, Whitehall, in the
County of London, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved handle, grip or pull for attachment
to a chain, rod, or cord, for actuating water closet Hushing cisterns, blinds, window
sashes, bells, or other apparatus for which a pendant pull or handle may be used,
and the object of my invention is to ensure that the india-rubber projecting buffer
usually fitted to such handles or pulls shall be secured in such a manner as not to
be easily removable. Hitherto the buffer has been generally formed by stretching
a ring of india-rubber of circular or equivalent section over the handle until the
ring becomes located in a corresponding semi-circular or square bottomel groove;
but it has been found that such india-rubber ring almost invariably comes off in
use and is frequently lost.
According to my invention I. form the buffer by means of a disc of india-rubber,
leather, or other suitable material, of which one or more inay be fixed to a handle,
such discs preferably having rounded edges. The body of the handle I make in
two or more pieces of wood, earthenware, or other suitable material, with one or
more discs placed between them, the parts composing the handle proper, together
with the discs, each having a hole bored through the centre. The parts may be
secured together by means of a wire passed through them and screwed at each end
into a nut, that at the upper end having a suitable arrangement or device for
attachment to a chain, rod, or cord. I, in other cases, secure the parts together by
means of a metal tube suitably expanded or burred over at each end. The tube
may be of one diameter throughout, or it may be spun, stamped, or drawn, of
larger diameter at one end than the other to admit of the knotted end of a cord
passed through being concealed within the body of the handle. Also with the
object of concealing the knot of a suspending cord passing through the handle I,,in
some cases, connect the parts by means of two pieces of metal tube, one of greater
diameter than the other; these tubes pass through the handle and at the meeting
point the said two tubes are joined by reducing (contracting) the larger tube and
expanding the smaller one so that the flange formed on the outside of the smaller
tube cannot pass through that formed on the inside of the larger one, the tubes
may be soldered together, and the outer ends are secured as already described.
When the parts are connected by means of a single tube, I may provide for
concealing the knot on the cord by forming a larger hole sufficiently deep in the
lower or lowest part of the body of the handle, the hole being continued the size, of
the metal tube which I expand or flange outwards at the bottom of the larger hole
in the same manner as if the tube were continued to the extremity of the handle.
Metal washers may be employed at the terminal ends over which the said tubes
may be burred.
Dated this 15th day of November 1894.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Handles or Pulls for Water
Closet Flushing Cisterns, Blinds, Bells, Window Sashes, and
the like.
I, ROBERT GEORGE LAING BURN of 23 Charing Cross. Whitehall, in the
County of London, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 relates to a new or improved handle, grip or pull for attachment
to a chain, rod, or cord, for actuating water closet flushing cisterns, blinds, window
sashes, bells, or other apparatus for which a pendant pull or handle may be used,
and the object of my invention is to ensure that the indiarubber projecting buffer
usually fitted to such handles or pulls shall be secured in such a manner as not to
be easily removable. Hitherto the buffer has been generally formed by stretching
a ring of india rubber of circular or equivalent section over the handle until the
ring becomes located in a corresponding semi-circular or square bottomed groove
but it has been found that such india-rubber ring almost invariably comes off in use
and is frequently lost.
According to my invention I form the buffer or buffers by means of a disc or
discs of india-rubber, leather, or other suitable material; the body of the handle
is made in parts, the disc buffers being located between such parts, and the said
parts and buffers (together composing the handle) are held together by a central
core of wire, or tubes, all as hereafter described.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I will further:
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a
vertical central section of a handle constructed according to my said invention the
parts being held together by a wire core. Figure 2 shows a construction of such a
handle, held together by a tubular core, and Figure 3 is a tubular cored handle of
a varied construction. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the
several figures of the drawing.
A are the discs of india rubber, leather or other material suitable for forming
buffers of which one or more may be fixed to a handle, such discs preferably
having rounded edges, B are the parts composing the body of the handle, which
parts may be of wood, earthenware, or other suitable material, one or more of the
discs A being placed between the parts B, a hole being formed through the centre
of both the parts B and the discs A. The parts B may be secured together by
means of a wire C passed through them and screwed at each end into a nut C²,
that at the upper end having a suitable arrangement or device as for example a
ring C³ for attachment to a chain, rod or cord D.
I, in other cases, secure the parts B together by means of a metal tube suitably
expanded or burred over at each end. The tube may be of one diameter
throughout, or it may be spun, stamped, or drawn, of larger diameter at one end
than the other to admit of the knotted end of a cord passed through being
concealed within the body of the handle. Also with the object of concealing the
knot of a suspending cord passing through the handle, I, as shown at Figure 2,
connect the parts B B by means of two pieces of metal tube C C', one part C of
greater diameter than the other part C₁; these tubes C C₁ pass through the
handle B and at the meeting point C* the said two tubes C'C' are joined by
reducing (contracting) the larger tube C and expanding the smaller one C¹ so that
the flange formed on the outside of the smaller tube Ci cannot pass through that
formed on the inside of the larger one C, the tubes C C¹ may be soldered together

page_text: if desired, and the outer ends are secured as already described; A A are the
disc-buffers gripped between the parts B and held by the tubes C C'.
When the parts are connected by means of a single tube C say as illustrated by
Figure 3, I may provide for concealing the knot on the cord D by forming a larger
hole C sufficiently deep in the lower or lowest part of the body B of the handle,
the hole C being continued the size of the metal tube C which I expand or flange
outwards at the bottom of the larger hole C³ in the same manner as if the tube C
were continued to the extremity of the handle. Metal washers may be employed
at the terminal ends over which the said tubes may be burred.
In the examples of handles shown in the accompanying drawings the parts B.
and disc buffers A are intended to be of circular formation in plan, but it will be
understood that such might be of polygonal or other form, and the design of such
handles might be varied as fancy or taste may dictate.
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 what
I claim as my improvements in or connected with handles or pulls for water-closet
flushing cisterns, blinds, bells, window sashes, and the like is as follows:-
1. A handle composed of parts B having interposed buffer or buffers A of india
rubber, leather or other suitable material, a core passing therethrough to hold the
composing parts together, nuts or the like to secure same, and an attachment for
chain, rod, or cord, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. A handle composed of parts B having interposed buffer or buffers A of india
rubber, leather, or other suitable material, a tubular core to receive the cord, rod
or chain, and to hold the composing parts together substantially as and for the
purposes set forth.
3. The handle composed of parts B having interposed buffer or buffers A of
india-rubber, leather, or other suitable material, in combination with the tubular
core all substantially as described and illustrated with reference to Figures 2 and 3
of the accompanying drawings.
4. The general arrangement and combination of parts composing my
improvements in handles all constructed substantially as and for the purposes
described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings together
with any mere modification or modifications thereof.
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BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for Applicant.