Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools and Blades.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools and Blades.
I, JOHN WALTER WHITTINGTON, 216 Myrtle Road, Heeley, in the County
of York, File Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of the invention is the construction of an inexpensive but effective
metallic handle, very suitable for files, and other tools requiring such handles, and
for some kinds of blades.
The handle is made in two parts or scales and the file or other article is held
between them at one end, which is shaped to fit round it.
In its application to a reaper file for example I make each scale of similar outer
configuration and recess the interior, but at the end which is to hold the file
I prepare each part so that when put together they fit closely upon the sides and
edges of the file, which thus requires no tang or other special formation, being
simply cut square off the bar of steel from which the file is made. The butt end of
the file is provided with a hole through it, and one of the scales is made with a
strong stud to pass through the hole in the file and through a hole in the opposite
scale, where it is rivetted.
The opposite ends of the scales are secured in a similar manner.
The studs may
be cast solid with the scale, or separate rivets may be used. I prefer that the stud
or rivet that passes through the file should be squared and that the hole in the file
should also be squared, but I do not bind myself to this form.
The part of the scale which fits against the edges of the file or other article, may
be formed entirely upon one of the scales, or be divided, and half be formed upon
each scale.
Dated the 20th I
Amount 1004
Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools and Blades.
I, JOHN WALTER WHITTINGTON 216 Myrtle Road, Heeley in the County of
York, File Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The object of my invention is the construction of an inexpensive and effective
handle for files and other like tools or blades which require to be cheaply handled,
and refers more particularly to “ reaper files" which are used for agricultural
implements.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings, similar letters
referring to similar parts in any of the various figures.
Fig. 1, shows the handle as fixed to a file.
Fig. 2, edge view of same.

page_text: Fig. 4, LWO views of inside of handle.
Fig. 5, fastening pin.
The handle is made in two parts A³, and A2, which are technically called scales,
and the outline or configuration of which may be varied; the one shown is of the
most simple form and is for reaper files.
Each scale is preferably made of the same exterior configuration, each scale
being grooved or recessed upon its inner face at B, in such a manner that when
both scales are put together there will be a longitudinal opening in the end corre-
sponding with the tapering formation of the tang C, shown in the two views of
Fig. 3.
To accomplish this each recess B, must be made deeper at one side than the
other, so that the tang will fit against and be firmly gripped by each scale.
The tang C, may either be simply an uncut termination of the file, or it may be
reduced in width by cutting off a strip at D, so as to form a shoulder at E, and to
enable (in the case of a wood handle) more material to be left on the part F.
One or more holes G, are made through the tang or butt end of the file, and
through one of the scales A', and a pin or rivet H, preferably such as shown in
Fig. 5, is passed through the said holes and its points driven through the opposite
wood scale, and clinched into the wood. Equivalent fastening devices may be used,
such as solid rivets or pins, when metal scales are used, and the complete recess
may be cast in one of the scales instead of half in each scale.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is:
1. The improvements in the construction of handles for files, and the like articles,
as herein before described and shown.
2. A handle for reaper files and the like, consisting of two scales A¹, and A²,
with recesses B, made deeper upon one side to fit the tapering cross sectional form
of the tang of the file, and secured together upon the file in the manner
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated t
UL MY LOMA
BY LON
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.