Improvements in Coffin and Cabinet Handles and other Drop Handles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin and Cabinet Handles and other Drop
Handles.
We INGALL, PARSONS, CLIVE & Co. LIMITED of Imperial Chambers A, Colmore
Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Coffin Furniture Manufacturers and
General Brassfounders and SAMUEL WOOD of No. 10 Prospect Row Birmingham
aforesaid Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in connecting
coffin and cabinet handles, and other drop handles, and ring handles, to the handle
plates, or back plates of the said handles, by which plates, the handles are connected
to the coffins, cabinets, doors or other articles.
By these improvements the knobs or projections to which the drop handles and
ring handles are applied are fixed to the handle plates without screws or other fastenings
the fixing of the handle plates further ensuring the connection of the said knobs or
projections with the said plates.
We will first describe the said invention as applied to a coffin handle. We form the
two knobs or projections which are to be attached to the handle plate, or back plate,
to carry the drop handle, of thimble like pieces or conical tubes, closed at their narrow
ends, the wide end or base of each thimble like piece or conical tube, having a flange
preferably square in plan. These thimble like pieces or tubes are perforated in one
side with a hole of a size proper for the pivot end of the drop handle to take into and
work in. The handle plate to be screwed to the coffin, has perforations of a size
proper for the base part of the thimble like pieces or conical tubes to fit tightly in.
Around each perforation in the handle plate is a recess into which the square flange at
the base of the thimble like piece or conical tube can seat itself.
In fixing the thimble like pieces or conical tubes to the handle plate, they are driven
from the back of the handle plate through the perforations in it, until the flanges of
the said thimble like pieces or conical tubes seat themselves in the handle plate and
are flush with the said plate.
The greater part of the thimble like pieces or conical tubes thus fixed in the handle
plate project from the front of the said plate and constitute the knobs to which the
drop handle is applied. The drop handle is applied to the knobs on the handle plate
in the ordinary way, and when the handle plate is screwed to the coffin and fixed over
the inner flanges of the knobs, the latter are effectually prevented from being
disconnected from the handle plate.
Instead of attaching the two knobs or projections to a single plate, each knob or
projection may be attached to an independent plate, and instead of giving the knobs
or projections a conical figure, they may be made of other shapes.
In attaching a ring handle to a back plate a single knob made and fixed in the
manner before described is used, but the said knob is provided with a hole in each
side for receiving the pivot ends of the ring handle.
We attach cabinet handles and drop handles for various purposes to their handle
plates or back plates in the manner hereinbefore described with respect to a coffin
handle.
The thimble like pieces or conical or other shaped tubes constituting the knobs to
which the drop handles, and ring handles are applied, and the handle plates may be
made by stamping or otherwise.
Dated this Fifteenth day of January 1890
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coffin and Cabinet Handles and other Drop
Handles.
We INGALL PARSONS CLIVE & CO. LIMITED of Imperial Chambers A Colmore Row
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Coffin Furniture Manufacturers and General
Brassfounders and SAMUEL WOOD of No. 10 Prospect Row Birmingham aforesaid
Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in connecting
coffin and cabinet handles and other drop handles and ring handles to the handle
plates or back plates of the said handles by which plates the handles are connected to
the coffins cabinets doors or other articles.
By these improvements the knobs or projections to which the drop handles and ring
handles are applied are fixed to the handle plates without screws or other fastenings
the fixing of the handle plates further ensuring the connection of the said knobs or
projections with the said plates.
We will first describe the said invention as applied to a coffin handle. We form
the two knobs or projections which are to be attached to the handle plate or back plate
to carry the drop handle of thimble like pieces or conical tubes closed at their narrow
ends the wide end or base of each thimble like piece or conical tube having a flange
preferably square in plan. These thimble like pieces or tubes are perforated in one
side with a hole of a size proper for the pivot end of the drop handle to take into and
work in. The handle plate to be screwed to the coffin has perforations of a size proper
for the base part of the thimble like pieces or conical tubes to fit tightly in. Around
each perforation in the handle plate is a recess into which the square flange at the base
of the thimble like piece or conical tube can seat itself.
In fixing the thimble like pieces or conical tubes to the handle plate they are driven
from the back of the handle plate through the perforations in it until the flanges of the
said thimble like pieces or conical tubes seat themselves in the handle plate and are
flush with the said plate.
The greater part of the thimble like pieces or conical tubes thus fixed in the handle
plate project from the front of the said plate and constitute the knobs to which the
drop handle is applied. The drop handle is applied to the knobs on the handle plate
in the ordinary way and when the handle plate is screwed to the coffin and fixed over
the inner flanges of the knobs the latter are effectually prevented from being discon-
nected from the handle plate.
In attaching a ring handle to a back plate a single knob made and fixed in the
manner before described is used but the said knob is provided with a hole in each side
for receiving the pivot ends of the ring handle.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which the said invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation and Figure 2 partly in horizontal section
and partly in plan or edge view a coffin handle connected to the handle plate or
back plate according to this invention;
Figure 3 represents in front elevation and horizontal section the handle plate or
back plate detached and
Figure 4 represents in elevation and plan of underside one of the thimbles knobs
or projections of the handle plate detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
a is the handle plate or back plate to be screwed to the coffin and b b are the knobs-
or projections carrying the drop handle e the said knobs or projections being connected
to the handle plate a according to this invention. It will be seen by reference to the
drawing that the said knobs or projections bb are made of thimble like pieces or
conical tubes closed at their narrow ends the wide end or base having a flange e upon

page_text: it square in plan. In one side of each thimble or conical tube 6 is a perforation or
hole for the pivot end c² of the drop handle c to take into or work in. About the
middle of the handle plate a perforations g g are made of a size proper for the wide
or base parts of the thimble like pieces or conical tubes bb adjacent to the square
flanges e to fit tightly in.
External to the said perforations 9 g in the plate a are recesses or depressions h h
into which the square flanges e e of the thimbles or conical tubes 6 b can seat
themselves.
To connect the thimble like pieces or conical tubes bb to the handle plate a the
narrow ends of the said thimble like pieces or conical tubes are passed from the back
of the handle plate into the perforations g g and the thimbles or tubes are driven
through the said perforations until their flanges e e seat themselves in the seats or
recesses in the handle plate and are flush with the back of the said plate as seen
in the section Figure 2. The said thimbles or conical tubes b b are thus fixed to the
handle plate the greater part of the said thimbles or conical tubes projecting
from the front of the handle plate and constituting the knobs or projections to which
the drop handle c is applied in the ordinary way that is by forcing the pivot ends c² c²
of the drop handle into the side holes ff in the said knobs or projections as
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2. By the screwing of the handle plate a to the coffin the
seats or recesses hh are fixed over the square flanges e e of the knobs or projections bb
and the said knobs or projections are thus effectually prevented from being disconnected
from the handle plate that is so long as the handle plate a is fixed in its place the
knobs or projections bb cannot be removed from the said plate in consequence of the
seats or recesses in the said plate fitting over and holding in their places the square
flanges e e of the knobs or projections.
Instead of attaching the two knobs or projections bb to a single plate each knob or
projection may be attached to an independent plate; and instead of giving the knobs
or projections a conical figure they may be made of other shapes; for example the
knobs or projections may be square or angular in cross section and taper from the
closed end to the base at which the flange is situated.
Figure 5 represents in front elevation and Figure 6 in section partly in side elevation a
ring landle attached to its back plate according to this invention. In the said Figures 5
and 6, i is the back plate; the drop handle and the single knob or projection fixed
in the manner hereinbefore described to the back plate i. The knob or projection i in
this case has a hole at opposite sides of it for receiving the pivot ends ²² of the ring
handle k.
Figure 7 represents in front elevation and Figure 8 in horizontal section partly in
edge view a modified method of connecting the drop handle to the back plate;
Figure 9 represents the back plate in front elevation and horizontal section and
Figure 10 represents one of the knobs or projections in elevation and section.
In this modification the handle plate or back plate p is made hollow or troughed and
is without seats or recesses around the perforations p²² for receiving the flanges b² b²
of the conical knobs or projections bb the said flanges in this case having a circular
figure and bearing against the back of the handle plate after the said knobs or projec-
tions have been driven through the holes p² p² in the said plate (see Figure 8) the
hollow or troughed handle plate forming a box or cover for the said flanges. In order
effectually to secure these knobs or projections in the handle plate p by the driving of
them from the back of the plate the said knobs or projections are furnished with
circular grooves q at their junction with the flanges 62. When the knobs or projec-
tions bb have been fully driven home the edges of the holes p2 p² in the plate p snap
into the said grooves 9 9 and thereby firmly lock or fasten the knobs or projections to
the plate as represented in Figure 8. The handle c is secured to the knobs b b in the
ordinary way.
We attach cabinet handles and drop handles for various purposes to their handle
plates or back plates in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect
to coffin handles and a ring handle.
The thimble like pieces or conical or other shaped tubes constituting the knobs or

page_text: projections to which the drop bandles and ring handles are applied and the handle
plates may be made by stamping or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the nanner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention of " Improvements in coffin and cabinet handles and other
drop handles"—
Connecting coffin and cabinet handles and other drop handles to their handle plates
or back plates by making the knobs or projections which carry the drop handles of
thimble like pieces or conical or taper tubes having flanges at their base or wide ends
and fixing the said thimble like pieces or conical or taper tubes to the handle plates
by driving them from the back of the handle plates through holes or perforations in
the said handle plates and causing their flanges to be seated in seats or recesses in the
back of the handle plates or to bear against the back of the handle plates and be locked
thereto substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 12th day of September 1890.
INGALL, PARSONS, CLIVE & Co., LIMITED,
Roland H. Parry, Secretary.
SAMUEL WOOD