An Improved Handle for Railway Milk Churns, Applicable to other Articles in Metal and Wood.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Handle for Railway Milk Churns, Applicable to other
Articles in Metal and Wood.
HENRY HENDLY VICKERS the Corn Exchange Buildings Albert Street
Derby, Coppersmith and Dairy Utensil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
A handle for the better convenience in carriage of railway milk churns and
other heavy utensils by means of which the breakage of handles and consequent
loss of contents is greatly reduced. The handles will be constructed of malleable
iron, brass or copper. I claim originality in shape; sweated on with solder to
any shaped metal article-no rivets or screws being needed.
For wooden utensils the ordinary rivet & screw would be used.
For round and geometrical articles they are indispensible having a support each
way, and as they do not project beyond the rim of the can are protected from
breakage by other articles falling on them.
I form my improved handle of two vertical arms or stays with a horizontal cross
bar about midway between them each of the said arms or stays being fastened as
before described at top and bottom thereof to the side of the churn or other
article or in any other suitable position. The horizontal cross bar or handle is
given sufficient projection from the side of the can or other article so as to be
It will be seen
grasped easily and so that the can may be conveniently carried.
that by having the arms or stays of the handle fastened at their upper as well as at
their lower ends two additional points of support are obtained over the ordinary
handle and by the same means preventing to a great extent anything giving a direct
blow to the cross bar or handle as is the case when they are formed in the ordinary
way, that is to say with the supports bent downwards only, and also serving the
purpose of a strut and preventing the handle being flattened to the side of the churn
or other article.
Amendment dated this 1st November 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Handle for Railway Milk Churns, Applicable to other
Articles in Metal and Wood.
I, HENRY HENDLY VICKERS, Corn Exchange Buildings, Albert Street,
Derby, in the County of Derby, Coppersmith and Dairy Utensil 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 relates to an improved handle for railway milk churns and other
articles in metal and wood, it is formed of two arms or stays which are bent inwards
and flattened out at their extremities to enable them to be soldered or rivetted to
the milk churn or other article, these arms or stays have a cross bar between them
which forms the handle and it is given sufficient projection from the side of the can
or other article to enable it to be grasped easily and so that the can may be
conveniently carried.
It will be seen that by having the arms or stays of the handle secured at their
upper as well as at their lower extremities two additional points of support are
obtained over the ordinary handle, and by the same means protecting the cross bar

page_text: of the handle from being given a direct blow sideways as is the case when it is
formed in the ordinary way, that is to say with the supports bent downwards only;
they also serve the purpose of struts or stays and prevent the handle from being
flattened to the side of the churn or other. atricle or torn away therefrom.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the figures and letters of
reference marked thereon -
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved handle.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a plan looking down.
Figure 4 shews my improved handle as fixed on a railway milk churn.
In these figures A indicates the arms or stays, B the flattened extremities
thereof, C the cross bar or handle and D the churn or other article to the sides
of which the handles are fixed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improved handle for railway milk churns and other articles in metal and
wood substantially as described herein and illustrated by the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
Dated this 17th day of June 1891.
H. H. VICKERS,
Applicant.