Improvements in Handles for Opening and Closing Doors and Drawers, Lifting and Carrying Boxes and other Articles, and for similar Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 15th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Mar., 1887.
Improvements in Handles for Opening and Closing Doors and
Drawers, Lifting and Carrying Boxes and other Articles, and
for similar Purposes.
I HUBERT ALFRED DONE, of Stone House, Sutton Coldfield, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists in making metal handles for opening, closing, lifting and
carrying purposes with a tubular grip, fluted or otherwise ornamented and arms or
arms and fixing plates complete from one piece of sheet steel, brass or other metal in
the manner following. I take a piece of sheet metal the length over all of the handle
required and the width of the circumference of the proposed grip and shoulder or cut
down each end the length of the arm or arm and fixing portion, leaving the centre
part with a projecting Hap each side. I then by means of suitable tools flute reed or
otherwise ornament the middle only or the whole width of the broad centre portion
and in some cases the narrowed ends also, I next bend or curve round the projecting
flaps into a tube of any convenient section to form the grip of the handle, I then turn
down the narrowed ends nearly at right angles closing up the openings in the ends of
the grip, to make the arms, and lastly bend back each end in a line with the grip to
form the fixing plates into which I pierce one or more screw holes.
In the case of drop handles I have the piece of metal the length of the grip and
arms only and connect the arms with loose fixing plates in the usual or any other
convenient manner.
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Where additional strength is required in the arms or fixing portions, I either reed
or flute them..

page_text: GUMI LEIN DIMITIVATION.
Improvements in Handles for Opening and Closing Doors and
Drawers, Lifting and Carrying Boxes and other Articles, and
for similar Purposes.
I HUBERT ALFRED DONE of Stone House Sutton Coldfield, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 consists in making handles for opening, closing, lifting, and carrying
purposes, with a tubular grip, plain, fluted, or otherwise ornamented, and with arms
and fixing plates or attachments complete, from one piece of sheet steel, brass or other
metal, in the manner following, which describes the method of making a handle for
opening and closing doors and for similar purposes-I take a piece of sheet metal of.
a suitable strength, and the length over all of the handle required, and the width of
the circumference of the proposed grip, and shoulder or cut down each end the length
of the arm and fixing portion, leaving the centre part with a projecting flap each side,
and each end of a suitable or ornamental form for fixing to the door or other article:
this shaped piece of sheet metal I call "the blank," and when of a small or medium
size it may be cut out at once in a press; I then take this said blank and when it is
intended for a handle of an ornamental character, first by means of dies or tools in a
stamp or other machine flute, reed, or otherwise ornament the middle only, or the
whole width of the broad central portion, and in some cases the ends also; and then
by means of suitable tools, in a press preferred, curve or bend round the projecting
central flaps until the edges meet together, making a short tube of any convenient
section; this forms the grip or holding part of the handle; I next turn down each
narrowed end at an angle or curve, over and closing up the opening in the end of the
grip, to make the arms of the handle; and lastly bend back each end for a suitable
distance, or as far as shaped, in a line or thereabouts with the grip, to form the fixing
plates, through which I pierce one or more holes for screws or rivets, to fasten to the
door or other article with which it is to be used.
I do not bind myself to the exact order of the processes here described, or to the
same division of them, as for instance, the holes for fixing may be pierced into "the
blank"
or as soon as the grip is formed, or the arms and ends may be bent at one
process.
Where additional strength is required in the arms or fixing parts, I reed or flute
them, or make them slightly curved in cross section.
In the case of handles for carrying parcels, boxes or other articles bound with
straps, or tied with string, I form the ends of the arms into hooks or loops of a
convenient form for holding the straps or string of the articles to be carried.
My invention will be understood by the annexed sheet of drawings in which
Figs. 1. to 4. illustrate the construction of a plain handle for opening doors or for
other purposes.

page_text: Fig. 1. shows the sheet metal blank above referred to, in which a. a. are the
projecting flaps. b. the narrowed parts for the arms; and c. c. the shaped ends to
for the fixing plates.
Fig. 2. represents the projecting flaps a. a. in fig. 1 turned over, with the edges
meeting together, and forming the grip of the handle; and also the screw or rivet
holes d. d. pierced in the shaped ends c. c.
Fig. 3. shows the narrowed parts b. b. turned down over the ends of the grip to
make the arms of the handle; the parts where the grip and the arms meet, and also
the meeting edges in the grip may be soldered together if preferred, but as a rule
I do not consider this necessary.
For some purposes, for a narrow knife-box for instance, this form of handle could.
be used without the ends or fixing portions c. c. being turned outwards as in fig. 4.
Fig. 4. shows the handle complete, with the ends or fixing plates c. c. turned
outwards as generally made.
Fig. 5. represents a handle constructed in a similar manner but of an ornamental
character and with curved arms.
Fig. 6. shows another form of handle made in the same way, but with a barrel
shaped grip and plain fixing plates.
Fig. 7. shows a handle for carrying parcels bound with straps, the straps being
passed through the eyes or loops f.j
Fig. 8. represents a handle for carrying parcels tied with string; in use the two
arms are slightly drawn apart and the string of the parcel to be carried passed
between and dropped into the hooks y. g. by the use of this handle one or several
parcels may be conveniently carried.
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,
A handle, plain or ornamental, with a tubular grip, made with arms and fixing or
attaching parts complete, from one piece of sheet metal, in the manner hereinbefore
described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
HUBERT ALFRED DONE.