Improvements in Coffin Handles and Cabinet Handles, and other like Handles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin Handles and Cabinet Handles, and other
like Handles.
I CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON, trading as Charles Rollason, of No. 27 Schole-
field Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Coffin Furniture Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Coffin handles and cabinet handles and drop handles of the ordinary kind are
liable to become accidentally detached from their bearings fixed on the coffins and
other articles; and my invention has for its object to prevent the pivot ends of the
said handles from sliding out of or of being accidentally withdrawn from their
bearings, and this object I effect by constructing the pivot ends of the handles and
those parts of the bearings in which the said pivot ends work in the manner
hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention in connection with a coffin handle the pivot ends of
which are carried by arms fixed to the grip part of the handle, the said pivot ends
turning in knobs or heads at the outer ends of the bearings fixed by screwing or
otherwise to the coffin.
Instead of making a cylindrical pivot at the outer end of each of the arms of the
handle, I provide the outer end of the cylindrical pivot with a projecting side lug
turned inwards or towards the arm of the handle, the part of the pivot opposite
the lug being plain and forming a cylindrical continuation of the pivot.
The side
lug described on the pivot constitutes a stop for preventing the withdrawal or
sliding out of the pivot end of the handle from the bearing in which it turns.
I make the knob or head of the bearing for receiving the side lug part of the
pivot in the following manner. In place of the usual cylindrical hole at the middle
of the said knob or head for the cylindrical pivot to turn in I make the said knob
or head hollow or recessed the hollow part or recess having a size and shape proper
for the lug on the pivot to work in. Opening into the hollow or recessed part of
the knob or head of the bearing is a slot to permit of the introduction of the lugged
pivot into the said hollow or recessed part.
This slot is made preferably at the back of the knob or head so as to leave more
than one half of the inner face of the knob or head uncut away. After the lugged
part of the pivot has passed into the hollow or recess of the knob or head of the
bearing, the pivot is turned in the bearing so as to remove the side lug from opposite
the slot and bring the said lug behind the uncut away part of the recess in the said
knob or head thereby preventing the pivot being withdrawn from the bearing. In
this position of the parts, the bearings are fixed to the coffin and the pivots of the
handle turn in the said bearings in the ordinary way. The side lugs on the pivots,
are thus made to work against the uncut away parts of the recessed knobs or heads
of the bearings during the motion of the handle and acting as stops prevent the
detachment of the handle from its bearings. The bearings in which the pivot
ends of the handle work may be fixed to the coffin by screwing or otherwise.
My improvements may be applied to coffin handles made in one piece and to
various kinds of coffin handles and to cabinet handles and handles of a like kiud
used for other purposes.
Dated this 6th day of January 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Coffin Handles and Cabinet Handles, and other
like Handles.
I CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON trading as Charles Rollason of No. 27 Schole-
field Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coffin Furniture Manufacturer,
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 :—
Coffin handles and cabinet handles and drop handles of the ordinary kind are
liable to become accidentally detached from their bearings fixed on the coffins and
other articles; and my invention has for its object to prevent the pivot ends of the
said handles from sliding out of or of being accidentally withdrawn from their
bearings; and this object I effect by constructing the pivot ends of the handles and
those parts of the bearings in which the said pivot ends work in the manner
hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention in connection with a coffin handle the pivot ends of
which turn in knobs or heads at the outer ends of the bearings fixed by screwing or
otherwise to the coffin.
Instead of making a cylindrical pivot at the outer end of each of the arms of the
handle I provide the outer end of the cylindrical pivot with a projecting side lug or
head. The side lug or head described on the pivot constitutes a stop for preventing
the withdrawal or sliding out of the pivot end of the handle from the bearing in
which it turns.
I make the knob or head of the bearing for receiving the lug or head part of
the pivot in the following manner. In place of the usual cylindrical hole at the
middle of the said knob or head for the cylindrical pivot to turn in, I make the
said knob or head hollow or recessed, the hollow part or recess having a size and
shape proper for the lug or head on the pivot to work in. Opening into the said
hollow or recessed part of the knob or head of the bearing is a slot to permit of the
introduction of the lugged or headed pivot into the said hollow or recessed part.
This slot is made at the back of the knob or head so as to leave more than one half
of the inner face of the knob or head uncut away. After the lugged part of the
pivot has passed into the hollow or recess of the bearing the lug engages behind
the uncut away parts in the said bearing, thereby preventing the pivot being
withdrawn from the bearing. In this position of the parts the bearings are fixed
to the coffin and the pivots of the handle turn in the said bearings in the ordinary
way. The side lugs or heads on the pivots are thus made to work against the
uncut away parts of the recessed knobs or heads of the bearings during the motion
of the handle and acting as stops prevent the detachment of the handle from its
bearings. The bearings in which the pivot ends of the handle work may be fixed
to the coffin by screwing or otherwise.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in side elevation and
Figure 2 in plan, a coffin handle made according to my invention, attached to a
coffin. One of the bearings is represented in vertical section in Figure 1 and in
horizontal section in Figure 2;
Figure 3 represents the handle detached and Figure 4 represents in side elevation
and back elevation one of the bearings of the coffin handle detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
a is the coffin handle the end of each of its cylindrical pivots & being provided
with a projecting head or lug c. The coffin handle a is made in one piece with its
pivot ends b, c, d, d are the bearings in which the pivot ends of the coffin handle
turn and by which the said handle is fixed to the coffin, the said bearings being

page_text: fixed to the coffin e by screws, or by the methods hereinafter described. Each of
the said bearings d is made hollow or recessed at f, the hollow or recessed part f
being open at the back and the inner side cheek of the bearing opens by the slot g
into the hollow or recessed part f. In the said slot g the cylindrical pivot 6 of the
handle is situated and works. The uncut away parts h, h above and below the slot g
in the inner side cheek of the bearing constitute stops for preventing the pivot
being withdrawn from the bearing; and in the inside of the bearing and near the
side slot 9 is a semi circular seat or depression i for a portion of the lug or head c
of the pivot to work in.
In fixing the handle a to the coffiu e the lugs or heads c, c of the handle pivots
are passed into the recesses or hollows ff of the bearings d at the open backs
thereof so that portions of the said lugs or heads c, c seat themselves in the seats i, i
and bear against the side stops h, h, the pivots b, b taking into the side slots
the bearings.
9, 9 in
In the relative positions described of the handle and bearings, the latter are
fastened to the coffin as represented in Figures 1 and 2. When so fastened the
lugs or heads c, c of the pivots by engaging with the seats i, i and behind the uncut
away parts or stops h, h of the bearings prevent the pivots from being withdrawn
from the bearings but the said pivots are capable of turning in the hollow bearings
on the raising or dropping of the handle as will be understood by an examination
of Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 5 represents my improvements applied to a coffin handle the pivot ends of
which are carried by the arms k, k fixed to the grip part 1 of the handle, the pivot
ends turning in the bearings d, d of the construction hereinbefore described excepting
that they are fixed to the fixing plates m, m screwed to the coffin.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation and Figure 7 in side elevation a coffin
handle of the last described kind but the bearings d, d are carried by the screw
bolts n (one of which is shown separately in Figure 8) passed through the coffin
and fastened by a screw nut p inside the coffin (see Figure 7).
Although I have described and represented each of the pivots of the handle
provided with a complete head, yet a part only of the head, so as to convert it into
a lug extending on one side only of the pivot, may be employed. In this case the
side lug is so turned that it engages with the uncut away parts or stops h, h of the
bearings before the said bearings are fixed to the coffin.
My improvements may be applied to coffin handles of various kinds and to
cabinet or drop handles and handles of a like kind for other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in coffin handles and cabinet handles and other
like handles ;-
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Preventing the pivot ends of the said handles from sliding out of or of being
accidentally withdrawn from their bearings fixed on the coffin or other article by
constructing the pivot ends of the said handles and their bearings substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; that is to
say, providing the outer end of each pivot with a projecting head or lug and making
the bearings hollow or recessed and slotted for receiving the said headed or lugged
pivot ends, the said heads or lugs of the pivots engaging, when the bearings are
fixed in their places, with stops or uncut away parts of the said bearings for the
purpose and substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 15th day of September 1894.
CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON.