IMPROVE- MENTS IN CONNECTING QB ATTACHING HANDLES TO COFFINS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Charles Clive, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTING QB ATTACHING HANDLES TO COFFINS AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 26th May 1871, and dated the 14th December 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Oharles Clive
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th December 1870.
I, JOSEPH CHARLES CLIVE, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING OR ATTACHING HANDLES TO.
COFFINS AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in
connecting or attaching handles to coffins and other articles, whereby
the said handles may be more readily connected or attached to the said
articles than by the ordinary method of attaching them.

page_text: I will describe my Invention as applied to the connecting or attaching
of a coffin handle.
The coffin handle is connected or attached to the coffin by means of
two loops, the ends of the handle engaging and turning in openings
in the sides of the said loops. In order to fix these loops to the coffin
I make a hole in the axis of each of the two loops and at right angles
to the openings in which the ends of the handle engage and turn. By
means of screws passed respectively through the holes in the axes of the
loops and taking into the wood of the coffin the loops are securely fixed
to the coffin. In fixing the loops to the coffin the openings in their
sides are placed in a horizontal position and opposed to each other, and
the ends of the handle inserted in the said openings before the second
loop is fixed to the coffin in the manner described.
The application of my Invention to other than coffin handles differs
in no essential respect from its application to coffin handles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Charles Clive in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CHARLES CLIVE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Charles Olive, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Charles Clive, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Charles Clive, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING
OR ATTACHING HANDLES TO COFFINS AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Charles Clive, my executors

page_text: or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Oharles Clive, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
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My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in
connecting or attaching handles to coffins and other articles, whereby
the said handles may be more readily connected or attached to the said
articles than by the ordinary method of attaching them.
I will describe my Invention as applied to the connecting or attaching
of a coffin handle.
The coffin handle is connected or attached to the coffin by means of
two loops, the ends of the handle engaging and turning in openings in
the sides of the said loops. In order to fix these loops to the coffin I
make a hole in the axis of each of the two loops, and at right angles
to the openings in which the ends of the handle engage and turn. By
means of screws passed respectively through the holes in the axes of the
loops and taking into the wood of the coffin the loops are securely fixed
to the coffin. In fixing the loops to the coffin the openings in their
sides are placed in a horizontal position and opposed to each other, and
the ends of the handle inserted in the said openings before the second
loop is fixed to the coffin in the manner described.
The application of my Invention to other than coffin handles differs
in no essential respect from its application to coffin handles.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation a coffin handle connected or
attached to a coffin according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a horizontal
section of the same, and Figure 3 represents the handle detached.
a is the handle provided with the ordinary pivots or cylindrical
ends b, b; c, c³, are the two loops by means of which the handle a is

page_text: connected to the coffin d. Each loop c, c², is provided at one side with
a tubular opening c³ of a size and shape proper to receive the pivot or
end 6 or 6* of the handle a which is to be engaged with and turn in the
said opening. In the axis of each loop c, c³, and at right angles to
the side opening is a hole c*, through which axial hole a screw'e
is passed to fix the loop to the coffin d. The base of each loop is
furnished with chisel-pointed teeth of which are forced into the outer
side of the coffin, as represented in the Drawing. In fixing the
handle a to the coffin d one of the loops, say the loop c, is first fixed
to the coffin by driving home its screw e. The pivot or end 6 of the
handle a is then engaged with the side opening in the said loop c.
The other pivot or end 6% of the handle a is next engaged with the side
opening in the second loop c³, and the said second loop then fixed by
its screw e to the coffin. The handle a is thus attached or connected
from the outside of the coffin in a simple and efficient manner, the
handle so connected being capable of turning in the fixing loops c, c².
Instead of placing the ends or pivots b, b², outside the handle they
may be situated inside the handle so as to face each other, the fixing
loops having a corresponding position. This arrangement of my Inven-
tion is represented in elevation in Figure 4, and plan (partly in section)
in Figure 5. The handle is represented separately in Figure 6, and
one of the fixing loops is represented separately in Figure 7. The
parts of this handle are marked with the same letters of reference as
corresponding parts in Figures 1, 2, and 3.
In place of employing two loops as in the arrangement represented
in Figures 4 and 5 a single central loop extending between the two
ends or pivots of the handle may be employed. This arrangement of
my Invention is illustrated in elevation in Figure 8 and horizontal
section in Figure 9. The said central loop is marked and consists
of a trough-shaped piece of metal having a central hole h for the
fixing screw i, the ends k, k, of the said loop being open to receive
the ends or pivots 6, 62, of the handle a. In fixing the handle to the
coffin the ends or pivots b, 6%, of the handle a are placed in the open
ends k, k, of the loop g, and the said loop is then fixed to the coffin d
by passing the screw i through the hole h and driving it into the coffin,
as illustrated in Figure 9.
Handles other than coffin handles are connected or attached to various

page_text: Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illus-
trated, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the improvements in
connecting or attaching handles to coffins and other articles, herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, that is
to say, attaching or connecting handles to coffins and other articles from
the outside thereof by providing the loop or loops which is or are fixed
to the coffin or article, and in which the ends of the handle are engaged
and turn with a hole or holes at right angles to the side openings in the
said loop or loops in which the handle is engaged, and fixing the loop
or loops to the coffin or other article by passing a screw or screws
through it or them, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Charles Clive, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOSEPH CHARLES CLIVE. (L.S.)