IMPROVEMENTS IN FIXING SHEET METAL HANDLES TO SHEET METAL COVERS AND TO OTHER ARTICLES OF SHEET METAL
Year: 1884

page_text: We, RICHARD CLAYTON, of the Cannon Hollow-ware Company Limited, of
Despuelds, near Bilston, in the County of Stafford, Iron Founders, and GEORGE
JONES, of Gough Street, Coseley, near Bilston, aforesaid, Tinsmith, do hereby
declare the nature of our Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN FIXING SHEET METAL
HANDLES TO SHEET METAL COVERS AND TO OTHER ARTICLES OF SHEET METAL
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement reference being had to the
accompanying Drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon :-
According to the ordinary method of fixing sheet metal handles to sheet metal
covers and other articles of sheet metal the ends of each handle are turned out so
as to lie flat on or against the article to which the handle is to be fixed, and these
parts are usually held to the article by means of rivets passing through them and
through the metal of the article.
The object of this Invention is to do away with the rivets usually employed, and
to form a neater connection between the handle and the article to which it is fixed.
For this purpose each end of the handle is simply shouldered down on both sides
by cutting away a strip of metal along each edge. These shouldered-down parts
are pushed through slits formed to receive them through the sheet metal of the
cover or other article. The ends of the handle projecting through these slits are
clenched within the cover or other article thus firmly holding the handle between
the shoulders on the outside and the clenched parts on the inside.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings illustrates in end view one end of a
handle shouldered down ready for inserting through one of the slits in the cover or
other article. The shoulders are formed at a a, leaving the part 6 for passing
through the slit, by simply cutting away a strip of metal on each side of the part b.
The strips may be cut away so as to form the shoulders a a previously to the
handle being folded at its edges and bent into its proper shape.
Figure 2 shews a saucepan cover in cross section with the handle fixed thereto
according to this Invention. The parts bb are, shewn to be clenched up under
the cover after having been passed through slits previously pierced through such.
cover to receive them.

page_text: If desired the parts bb may be slit up the middle as indicated by dotted line a¹,
Figure 1, one half of each such part being clenched in one direction and the other
half in the opposite direction to fix the handle.
Instead of forming shoulders at the outer edges of the metal a piece may be cut
out from the middle of the handle at each end, thus leaving two parts at each end
to be passed through corresponding slits in the cover, with a shoulder between
them. This method, however, is not considered so good as the one in which the
shoulders are formed at the outer edges.
A further modification of this Invention is illustrated by Figure 3. In this case
the handle is formed of two thicknesses of sheet metal, the outer thickness being
folded over the edges of the inner as shown by Figure 4, which is a transverse section
of the handle shewn at Figure 3, but shews one of the shouldered-down ends
previously to its being clenched up. The outer thickness only need be shouldered
down (that is to the width of the inner thickness) but both thicknesses are
preferably shouldered so as to give a good abutment on each side. Both thicknesses
of metal at each end are passed through slits in the lid or other article, one of such
thicknesses being clenched in ono direction and the other in the opposite direction
as shewn by cc, cc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The hereinbefore described improvements in the means of fixing sheet metal
handles to sheet metal covers and other articles of sheet metal, that is to say,
shouldering the ends of such handles, passing them through slits in the covers or
other articles and clenching back the parts projecting through such slits,
substantially as herein described and shewn by the Drawings.
2. The modification of our said improvements in the means of fixing sheet metal
handles to sheet metal covers and other articles of sheet metal, according to which
two thicknesses of sheet metal at each end of a handle are divided out and clenched
back in opposite directions so as to hold the handle between themselves and
shoulders on the handle, substantially as herein described and illustrated by
Figures 3 and. 4 of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of June 1884.