IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC DRAWER-HANDLES
Year: 1885

page_text: ICATION.
We, SAMUEL HENRY KEELING, of Goodman Street Works, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer and FREDERICK CHARLES SMITH, of 211 Albert
Road, Aston, in the County of Warwick, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare
the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC DRAWER-HANDLES
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
"
Our invention relates to the manufacture of appliances known as
handles" or "chest-bandles" and has for its object the stamping and forming of
" drawer-
such articles from sheet metal instead of by the process of casting.
Drawer-handles of the kind to which our invention applies are usually made in
three parts; two " roses attachable by means of screws to the article of furniture,
and a bow handle carried at its extremities by means of gudgeons or tangs
engaging with the roses respectively.
"
A drawer-handle of this description and formed from sheet metal is represented
in the accompanying drawings, whereof Fig 1 is a front elevation, Fig 2 a vertical
section on the line A. A. (Fig 1) and Fig 3 a vertical section on the line B. B. (Fig 1).
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. a is a
bow bandle, a blank for which is stamped from sheet brass or other suitable
metal plate. Fig 4 represents such a blank in its normal condition. The central
portion has its edges bent downwards as shewn at a¹ (Fig. 2), whilst the two
extremities of the blank are bent upwards; the extreme ends thereof being
ultimately bent outwards at right angles to form the gudgeons or tangs a³ whereby
the handle is mounted. Near and in front of each tang is formed a horn a³, which,
upon the handle being raised to a horizontal position, butts against the face of the
rose and prevents the handle being further raised.
In forming the rose b, the boss or raised part b¹ is by preference stamped before
the rose-piece is punched out or severed from the plate from which the roses are
being made; subsequent distortion of the rose-pieces being thereby prevented.
The boss b¹ has three of its sides rounded and inclined to the face of the rose,
whilst the fourth is flat and projects at right angles from the said face. In this
face a small hole is drilled, this being subsequently enlarged by means of a taper
drift. The enlargement of the hole by drifting has the effect of turning back the
edge of the metal surrounding the hole as shewn at 6'; the appearance presented
resembling that of an eyelet. This mode of construction results in affording
increased bearing surface for the tang a³ of the handle.

page_text: Drawer-handles manufactured in the improved manner described, being made
from metal of a more homogeneous character than when cast, are capable of being
finished with a high polish and acquire an attractive appearance. Considerable
economy is also effected in the labour and consequently the cost of manufacture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we claim
First: The improved drawer-handle, manufactured from sheet metal sub-.
stantially as described.
Second-In malleable metal drawer-handles, the improved mode of mounting
the handle in the roses by means of tangs formed on the handle and carried in
drifted holes formed in the sides of bosses projecting from the faces of the rose-
pieces, substantially as described.