Improvements in Door Handles and Railway Carriage, Commode, and like Handles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Door Handles and Railway Carriage, Commode,
and like Handles.
I, REUBEN THOMAS PRESTON, of the Firm of J. Stone & Co., Deptford, in the
County of Kent, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
Hitherto door handles have usually been made of two or more materials. Thus in
house door handles the knob or crutch has usually been made of wood, porcelain, or
brass and the stem or strig of iron or steel; handles for railway and other carriage
doors have usually been made with an iron or steel strig cast into a handle of
gun metal or other not easily corrodible material, this is objectionable as the strig
is apt to work loose in the crutch.
Now according to this invention I make the crutch or handle part proper and
the strig in one and of a material of sufficient strength to withstand the heavy
torsional strain and of sufficient hardness to prevent wear in the strig part, for
this I prefer malleable cast iron, wrought iron, steel or hard bronze. The crutch
part or handle proper I enamel, and in order to increase its adhesion I may form
this part with shallow grooves or recesses or the like which will become filled more
or less with the enamel.
My improvements are also partly applicable to the so-called railway carriage
commode handles which are affixed to the carriage close to the doors and the
like. The enamel may be of any desired colour to suit the colour of the door
or other part to which the handle is applied. By this means I am enabled to
avoid the frequent and expensive cleanings heretofore necessary more particularly
where the parts handled are exposed to the influences of the weather, as for
instance with railway and other carriage door handles and "commode" handles
while the enamelled surface is in itself cleaner and pleasanter to the touch. Moreover
handles thus made are considerably cheaper in first cost and in maintenance.
Dated this Eleventh day of September 1897.
Improvements in Door Handles and Railway Carriage, Commode,
and like Handles.
I, REUBEN THOMAS PRESTON, of the Firm of J. Stone & Co., of Deptford, in the
County of Kent, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Hitherto door handles have usually been made of two or more materials. Thus in
house door handles the knob or crutch has usually been made of wood, porcelain or
brass, and the stem or strig of iron or steel; handles for railway and other carriage
doors have usually been made with an iron or steel strig cast into a handle of gun
metal or other not easily corrodible material; this is objectionable as the strig is apt
to work loose in the crutch or handle part proper.
Now according to this invention I make the crutch or handle part proper and the
strig in one and of a material of sufficient strength to withstand the heavy torsional
strain, and of sufficient hardness to prevent wear in the strig part; for this I prefer
malleable cast iron, wrought iron, steel, or hard bronze. The crutch part or handle
proper I enamel, and in order to increase its adhesion I preferably form this part with
shallow grooves or recesses or the like which will become filled more or less with the
enamel.
My improvements are also partly applicable to the so-called railway carriage
"commode" handles which are affixed to the carriage close to the doors, and to other
such eommode" handles.
The enamel may be of any desired colour to suit the colour of the door or other
part to which the aforesaid door handles or "commode" handles are applied.
By this invention I am enabled to avoid the frequent and expensive cleanings
heretofore necessary, more particularly where the parts handled are exposed to the
influences of the weather, as for instance with railway and other carriage door handles
and commode handles while the enamelled surface is in itself cleaner and pleasanter
to the touch. Moreover handles thus made are considerably cheaper in first cost
and maintenance.
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 is
1. The application and use for railway carriage and other doors of handles with the
strig made of iron or other strong hard and cheap material in one with the crutch or
handle part proper and having the latter part enamelled, substantially as and for the
purposes set forth.
2. The application and use for railway carriages and other objects of "commode"
handles made of iron or other strong and cheap material and enamelled substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.