Improvements in Metal Handles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 6th July, 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Sept., 1887
Improvements in Metal Handles.
CHARLES EDWIN CLIVE and JOSEPH RONALD CLIVE irading as Hickman & Clive
manufacturers of metal goods William Street North Birminghain do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The fixing of what is known as the "arm" of a handle into what is known as the
"back plate." The back plate" is made for fastening to wood or any other
substance and retains the arm to which the handle or grip is attached.
The invention is the fixing of this "arm" to the "back plate."
The back plate is cast or pressed in one piece with a raised part in the centre, in
this raised part is made an aperture for the arm to be put through. One end of this
arm is fixed (that is so that it will not pull out but work up and down) into the back
plate after having been put through the aperture; to effect this a pin is casi or
placed in the arm at right angles to it, and at the end that is put through the aperture
in the back plate.
On the rear side of the back plate there are four projecting pins or pieces of
metal two on either side of the aperture. When the arm with A pin in it is put
through the aperture (the pin projecting on either side of the arm) it will fall
between the raised pieces of metal or pins on the rear side of the back plate;
these raised pieces of metal or pins are then hammered or otherwise forced over
the projecting part of the pin in the arm which will keep it in its place.
Dated ilin 1th Manah 1987
CHARLES EDWIN CLIVE.
JOSEPH RONALD CLIVE.

page_text: Improvements in Metal Handles.
We, CHARLES EDWIN CLIVE and JOSEPH RONALD CLIVE, trading as Hickman &
Clive, Manufacturers, William Street North, Birmingham, 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:-
Our invention of improvements in metal handles consists in an improved method
of fixing what is known as the arm of a handle into the back plate, which is
fastened to the wood or other substance, and which retains the arin to which the
handle or grip is attached.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig. 1 represents in front elevation part
of a metal handle hinged into a back plate according to our invention Fig. 2 is
a sectional side view and Fig. 3 is a back view of the same; Fig. 4 shews a
sectional side view of the back plate separately and Fig. 5 is a part front view
of the same; Fig. 6 represents in side and front elevation one of the arms of the
handle separately; Fig. 7 represents in front elevation on a smaller scale the
complete handle and back plate. Fig. 8 shows our invention applied to a single
handle; Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 represent modifications of our invention as herein-
after described.
Similar letters indicate similar parts in all the Figures.
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Referring firstly to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 it will be seen that the back
plate a is cast or pressed in one piece with a raised part 6 in the centre having an
aperture for one end of the arm d of the handle to pass through, which end is
hinged or jointed to the back plate by means of a pine cast or placed in the
arm dat right angles thereto and projecting on each side thereof. On the hind
or back side of the back platea are four projecting pieces of metal "AL
two on either side of the aperture c. When the armd with the pin e in it is pui
through the aperture the projecting ends of the pine will fall between the raised
pieces of metal "", two on either side, which latter are then hammered or
otherwise forced over the pius thus keeping the arm d in its place but allowing it to
turn freely up or down in the aperture c. In the particular handle shewn by
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 the arm d has to be threaded through the aperture c from
the back side of the back plate before the handle or grip pari g is attached thereto.
It will be evident that a handle having a single arm as shewn for instance by Fig. 8
may be attached to a back plate in a similar manner to that above described with
reference to a handle having two arms.
Although we prefer for the pin e to project on both sides of the arm still it will be
evident that a pin projecting on one side of the arm only (see Fig. 10) will answer the
same purpose and in this case we dispense with one of the two pairs of projecting
pieces of metal on the back plate for the pin to take into.
We sometimes for convenience of polishing the back plate a make the central
raised part b separate from the back plate as indicated by Fig. 9 where a
a

page_text: projecting ring and flange 61 is provided on the raised part b which ring fits into
a central hole in the back plate a and is secured to the wood or other substance
by the screws which fix the handle passing through the holes h, h, h.
Although we prefer to close the projecting pieces of metal
over the
pin e so as to maintain the arm in position in the back plate as above described
still this is not absolutely necessary as if the back plate be made so shallow, as
shewn in Figs. 11 and 12 that the wood or other substance to which the handle
is secured touches the end d¹ of the arm d that will prevent the joint pin e
working out of position without closing ovor the projecting pieces of
metal.
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:
The improvements in securing or jointing the arms of metal handles into their
back plates substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.