Improvements in Cabinet Handles and other Drop or Swing Handles, and in the Manufacture of Parts of the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th. Mar., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cabinet Handles and other Drop or Swing Handles,
and in the Manufacture of Parts of the same.
I, EDWIN ALFRED ALLEN, of "Ravenhurst," No. 80 Aston Lane, Perry
Barr, in the County of Stafford, Stamper and Piercer, 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 :--
My invention has reference principally to the eyes, studs or bearing uprights in
which the pivot ends of cabinet or drop or swing handles turn; and this
part of my invention consists of the process or combination of processes herein-
after described for manufacturing from sheet metal the said eyes, studs or
bearing uprights.
The eyes, studs or bearing uprights of cabinet and like handles are ordinarily
made by casting and are connected to the handle plates by riveting. Another
part of my invention consists in so constructing the base of the eyes, studs or
bearing uprights of the said handles and those parts of the handle plate to which
they are to be connected, that the loose or detached eyes or studs can be readily
fitted to the handle plates and secured to the said plates by the screwing home of
the latter to the cabinet, drawer, door, coffin or other article. By this means the
eyes or studs and the handle plates can be sent into commerce detached and fitted
and secured together by the workman on applying them to the cabinet, drawer,
door or other article as hereinafter described.
In making sheet metal eyes, studs or bearing uprights for swing or drop handles
according to my invention, I take a disc of brass or other ductile sheet metal and
by a drawing through process effected by the use of dies and punches of the
ordinary kind, I produce a long cup or tube closed at one end. I next produce in
the tubular cup, at about its middle, by spinning or by dies, a neck or annular
indentation and then outwardly flange the base of the cup. I next bead or force
outwards at the summit of the cup a hemispherical projection and finally pierce a
hole in the side of the partly made eye or stud for receiving the pivot end of the
handle.
For the purpose of fitting sheet metal eyes or studs thus made to the handle
plate without rivetting, I make or pierce holes in the handle plate where the eyes
or studs are to be fixed and force outwards or depress the metal around the said
holes so as to produce annular sunken seats for the flanges of the studs or eyes to
seat themselves upon. By means of projections on the upper side of the base
flange of the eye or stud and corresponding depressions in the annular sunken seat
in the handle plate the eye or stud is prevented from turning on the said seat, the
eyes or studs being held on their seats and secured to the handle plate by
screwing home the handle plate to the cabinet, drawer, door, coffin or the like.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, Figure 2 in plan, partly in longitudinal
section, and Figure 3 in cross section, a cabinet or swing handle constructed and
made according to my invention attached to a portion of a cabinet, drawer, door,
coffin or other article.
a, a are the eyes, studs or bearing uprights in which the pivot ends 62, 62 of the

page_text: drop or swing handle b work, the said eyes or studs being made from sheet metal
as hereinafter described. The flange at the base of each of the eyes or studs is
marked a and the annular sunken seats in the handle plate c on to which the
flanges a are seated, when fitted to the said plate, are marked e2; d is the hole in
the side of each of the eyes or studs a for the pivot ends 62,63 of the swing handle b
to engage in. On the upper side of the flange at and at opposite points are teats
or projections a³ and in the sunken seat of the handle plate are corresponding
depressions for receiving the teats or projections a'. By the engaging of the
teats a with the depressions c³ the turning of the eyes or studs, when fitted in
the handle plate, is prevented.
The swing handle 6 its eyes or studs a a and handle plate care sent into
commerce detached or separate and the workman in fixing them to the cabinet or
other article proceeds as follows. The base flange at of each eye or stud is passed
through the hole in the handle plate from the inner side thereof and fitted upon
the seat on the said handle plate and the pivot ends 62 of the handle b
introduced into the side holes d in the said eyes or studs, the engaging of the
teats or projections as with the depressions in the seats preventing the turning of
the eyes or studs on the said seats. By the screwing of the handle plate c to the
cabinet or other article the said plate and the several parts of the handle are
connected together and to the cabinet. It will be seen by reference to
Figures 2 and 3 how by the screwing home of the said handle plate the eyes or
studs a, a cannot be separated from the handle plate.
If desirable, additional security in fixing the eyes or studs to the handle plate
may be obtained by rivetting the seat parts of the handle plate to the base flanges
of the said eyes or studs.
In making the eyes or studs from sheet metal I proceed as follows:-I take a
circular disc of sheet metal of the kind represented in Figure 4 and by a drawing
through process conducted in the ordinary way I produce the cup or tube closed at
one end represented in Figure 5. I next produce in the cup or tube the neck or
annular depression represented in Figure 6. This necking may be effected either
by a spinning process or by dies. The base of the cup is next expanded or turned
at right angles to the other part by a stamping process so as to produce the
flange a as represented in Figure 7. The middle of the summit of the cup is next
expanded by means of press tools so as to produce the bead or hemispherical
projection marked g in Figure 8. The holding teats or projections a³, as are next
formed on the upper side of the flange a by pressing the metal outwards as
represented in Figure 9 and the hole d for the pivot end of the drop handle to
engage in is finally pierced in the eye or stud as shown in the said Figure 9.
The separate eye or stud now finished and ready to be secured to the handle
plate as hereinbefore described.
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 cabinet handles and other drop or swing
handles and in the manufacture of parts of the same
"
First. The combination of parts herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing for securing the separate eyes or studs, carrying the swing
or drop handle, to the handle plate and to the cabinet, drawer, door or other
article; that is to say, making a flange at the base of the eyes or studs and
annular sunken seats in the handle plate at the parts where the said eyes or studs
are to be fixed thereto and preventing the turning of the eyes or studs on their
seats by projections or teats on the base flanges of the eyes or studs engaging
with corresponding depressions in the said seats, substantially as described and
illustrated.
Secondly. Making the eyes or studs of cabinet and other swing or drop
handles from sheet metal by the process or combination of processes hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, producing

page_text: a cup or tube closed at one end by the ordinary drawing through process, necking
the cylindrical part, beading the summit and flanging the base of the cup and
forming teats or projections in the upper face of the base flange for the purpose
and substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Wifth day of March 1897
EDWIN ALFRED ALLEN.