An Improved Handle for Hand Wheels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
An Improved Handle for Hand Wheels.
We SAMUEL SKERRITT of 63 Randall Street. Sheffield in the County of York
-Ironworker and JOHN WILLIAM OGDEN of 33 Fir Street Walkley Sheffield
aforesaid Steel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
What we claim for the invention is a handle made in the wood portion in the
ordinary way but the end of the shaft that goes through the wood portion is made
with a male and female joint commonly known as a knuckle joint. At one end of
the knuckle joint it is rounded down to about the diameter of half an inch and
3 inches in length at the end of which there is a nut. The nut is then taken off
and a spiral spring is placed upon the round part of the end of the joint. A boss
is then made or fixed on each side of any fly wheel and then bored from the back
portion of the fly wheel 3 parts of the way through the boss (say ths). The
remainder part of the boss is bored half an inch. The joint is then placed in the
boss and the spring is put into the back portion (say ths). To place it in action
the handle is pulled forwards and bent down in a perpendicular position. When
required for use the handle is lifted up and springs back into its ordinary
position.
Dated this 24th day of May 1894.
SAMUEL SKERRITT.
JOHN WILLIAM OGDEN.
WHOIS.
We SAMUEL SKERRITT, of 63, Randall Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Ironworker, and JOHN WILLIAM OGDEN, of 33, Fir Street, Walkiey,
Sheffield aforesaid, Steel 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:-
What we claim for the invention is, a handle made in the wood portion in the
ordinary way, but the end of the shaft that goes through the wood portion is made
with a male and female joint, commonly known as a "knuckle joint." At one end
of the knuckle joint it is rounded down to about the diameter of half an inch aud
three inches in length, at the end of which there is a nut. The nut is then taken
off and a spiral spring is placed upon the round part of the end of the joint.
A boss is then made or fixed on each side of any fly wheel, and then bored from
the back portion of the fly wheel three parts of the way through the boss,
(say ths). The remaining part of the boss is bored half an inch. The joint is
then placed in the boss, and the spring is put into the back portion (say ths).
To place the handle in action, it is pulled forwards, and bent down in a
perpendicular position. When required for use, the handle is lifted up, and then
springs back into its ordinary position.

page_text: - This handle is adapted for washing and wringing machines, chaff cutters, or any
other hand power machine.
At the end of the shaft that carries the bottom roller, (referring to washing,
wringing and mangling machines) there is, in the ordinary way, a tinch hole
drilled, which receives a split cotter to hold on the fly wheel-but instead of a
split cotter, we place a split ring say one and a half inches in diameter, so that
when handle is bent down, the ring can be lifted up, and thus the handle is
locked.
Fig. I. shows the handle in position for working.
Fig. II. shows the handle when out of use, and also in locked position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. A handle made in the ordinary way, but with a "knuckle joint."
2. A spiral spring inserted in the boss.
3. A ring for locking the handle.
Dated this Fifteenth day of January 1895.
SAMUEL SKERRITT.
J. W. OGDEN.