IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIACE HANDLES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwards, of 21, Cassland Road, South Hackney, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIACE
HANDLES"
Sealed the 19th November 1878, and dated the 21st May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwards at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1878.
JOHN EDWARDS, of 21, Cassland Road, South Hackney, in the County of Mid-
dlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE HANDLES."
My improvements consist in making the handles of carriages, both the fixed
handles and the handles by which the doors are opened, as now to be described. I
make the handles of any suitable motal, and form a bead or undercast round the
same. At one end I sometimes form a loose part, so as to be drawn back when
required, which is fixed by any suitable means to the solid part. This bead or
undercast I sometimes make separately from the solid part and fix it to the solid
part, making one part of such bead or undercast, so as to be drawn back when
required. I then form a face plate of any suitable non-tarnishable material, and
this face plate is then put into position and fixed there by bringing the parts of the
bead or undercast together, and thus holding the face plates in their position. I
sometimes fix such face plates to the solid part by screws either through the back
or front of the solid part of the handles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
November 1878.
JOHN EDWARDS, of 21, Cassland Road, South Hackney, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE HANDLLS."
The object of this Invention is to form or make carriage handles in such a
manner as to prevent the expense and trouble of constant cleaning, and in the
Drawings hereunto annexed I shew how the same is effected or carried out.
Fig. 1 shews the front view of a metal frame to be fixed to the front of an
ordinary carriage handle, which frame is made, by preference, of brass; the two
lines round the same represent a bead which is raised about one-eighth of an inch
higher than the cross bars A, A, which cross bars are for holding the frame together
while being prepared to be fixed to the solid part of the handle. When the solid
part of the handle is made of iron I prefer to galvanize the same, and then solder
the frame to the solid part, which is then ready to receive the face plate; or the
face plate is secured in its position in the frame by screws taken through the solid
part of the handle into the back part of the face plate, or by screws taken through
the front of the face plate into the solid part of the handle.
Fig. 2 shews a similar frame, and which is fixed to the solid part of the handle
in the same manner, but in this frame the bead is under cast, and a loose end B is
formed, which loose ond is held in its place by the screw C passing through it and
serewing into the cross bar D. To get in a face plate into this framo the loose end
is taken off, and the face plate is then slipped into the frame; the loose end is then
fixed in its place, which then fixes the face plate in the frame.
Fig. 3 shews a similar frame made in two halves with the bead under cast; in
this case the one half of the frame E is fixed to the solid part of the handle, and
the other half F is fixed to it by the screws H, H, screwing into the fixed half.
After the face is put into its place and fixed there it will be readily seen that
in order to put in a fresh face plate it is only needful to slackon the screws H, H,
draw back the loose half of the frame, put in the face plate, screw the halves
together, and the face plate will be fixed in the frame.
Another mode of forming the frame to hold the face plate is to form the handle
of one solid piece, and form the bead round it on the front in any suitable way,
ready to receive the face plate, which is then put into the frame thus formed and
fixed there by screws holding it in the said frame.
The face plates are made of any suitable non-tarnishable material, such as china,
wood, enamelled metal, japanned metal, papier mache, glass, and so on, and are mado
of any desired form or section to suit any particular form of frame into which they
are to be fixed.
The fixed handles are made of any required length, having the projecting arms as
is usual with such handles, whereby they are fixed to the carriage, the front of such
fixed handles being formed as heretofore described to receive the face plates and fix
them in their proper position.
Fig. 4 shews in section how the handles are constructed with the face plate in
position ready to be fixed into its place by either of the modes described, ▲ being
the solid part, B the frame to receive the face plate, and C the face plate.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention I declare that
what I claim as my said Invention is, making carriage handles as herein described

page_text: and shewn, so as to have moveable face plates fixed to such carriage handles,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-cight.
TATTIT
JOHN EDWARDS. (L.B.)