Improvements in the Means of Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles to Saucepans and other Culinary Utensils.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles
to Saucepans and other Culinary Utensils.
We, CHARLES FREDERICK CLARK, of the Firm of T. and C. Clark and
Company, of Shakespeare Foundry, Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford,
Hollow-ware Manufacturers and General Ironfounders, JONAH SANDERS, of
53 Hawthorne Road, Blakenhall, near Wolverhampton, aforesaid, Pattern Maker,
and JOSEPH WEBSTER, of West End Cottage, Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton,
aforesaid, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object simple and reliable means of fixing sheet metal
tubular handles within the handle sockets of saucepans and other culinary utensils,
which admit of the handles being readily and securely fixed in place within the
sockets by unskilled labour so that they may be fixed in place on arriving at the
depôt from which they are to be distributed to retail dealers, or from which they
are to be sold direct to customers.
The special advantage which results from the invention (and which is not itself
novel, as it has been attained in other ways) is that the handles and saucepans or other
utensils can be packed for transport while separate from one another, whereby the
bulk to be carried is much reduced, compared with saucepans or other utensils
packed with fixed handles, and the cost of transport thus greatly lessened, and
whereby risk of breakage is avoided or reduced to a minimum.
A sheet metal tubular handle is fixed to a saucepan, or other culinary utensil,
according to this invention, by means of a pin screwed through one side (preferably
the underside) of the usual cast metal socket with its point or inner end passing
through a hole formed therefor in the handle. The inner end of the pin is formed
of a conical shape tapering smaller towards the extreme end. and the hole in the
handle is formed partly in one edge of the slit down the handle and partly in the
other and is somewhat smaller in diameter from side to side than the base of
the conical end of the pin. As the pin is screwed in, the conical portion presses
against the opposite sides of the hole in the handle and thus opens out or expands
the handle within the socket and consequently firmly tightens it therein. The screwed
part of the pin may be made long enough, if desired, so that the inner end of such
portion may enter the hole in the handle and still further open out or expand the
handle within the socket, or the handle may be expanded within the socket
entirely by such portion of the pin.
In lieu of utilizing the pin for the purpose of expanding the handle within the
socket, it may be made long enough to press against the inner face of the opposite
side of the handle when screwed up within the hole in the socket, and in such
case the pin when tighily screwed up will grip the opposite side of the handle
tightly between itself and the corresponding side of the socket. A modification
of this arrangement may be employed for the purpose of preventing the necessity
of removing the pin from the socket in order to enable the handle to, be inserted
therein, and which admits therefore, without inconvenience, of the utensils being
packed with the pins screwed into the sockets and the risk thus avoided or
rendered very slight of their not being found in association with the utensils
when the handles are to be fixed. Such modification consists in forming from the

page_text: inner end of the handle a slotted opening with a sideway notch. The edges of
the slotted opening pass along opposite sides of the pin as the bandle is pushed
into the socket, and the handle is then turned axially to engage the notch with the
pin before the pin is tightened up against the inside of the handle, the pin thus
forming with the slot and notch a kind of bayonet joint. The slot may be formed
in the upper side of the handle, if desired, that is on the opposite side to the slit,
and in such cases the pin is screwed through the upper side of the socket.
In the above cases the pin, by passing through the hole or notch in the handle,
securely keys the handle in place, independently of the hold caused by the
expansion of the handle within the socket, or the grip of the handle between the
end of the pin and one side of the socket; and a cruder form of the invention
than those above described consists in simply screwing the pin through the side of
the socket with its inner end simply passing through a hole in the handle without
expanding the handle within the socket, and without pressing against the opposite
side of the handle to grip it between itself and the corresponding side of the
socket.
Dated this 13th day of December 1894.
STEPHEN WATKINS;
Wolverhampton, Aġent for the Applicants.
VUMILIE DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Fixing Sheet Metal Tubular Handles
to Saucepans and other Culinary Utensils.
We, CHARLES FREDERICK CLARK, of the Firm of T. and C. Clark and
Company, of Shakespeare Foundry, Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford,
Hollow-ware Manufacturers and General Ironfounders, JONAH SANDERS, of
53 Hawthorne Road, Blakenhall near Wolverhampton, aforesaid, Pattern Maker,
and JOSEPH WEBSTER, of West End Cottage, Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton,
aforesaid, Clerk, 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:-
This invention has for its object simple and reliable means of fixing sheet metal
tubular handles within the handle sockets of saucepans and other culinary utensils,
which admit of the handles being readily and securely fixed in place within the
sockets by unskilled labour so that they may be fixed in place on arriving at the
depôt from which they are to be distributed to retail dealers, or from which they
are to be sold direct to customers.
The special advantage which results from the invention (and which is not itself
novel, as it has been attained in other ways) is that the handles and saucepans or
other utensils can be packed for transport while separate from one another, whereby
the bulk to be carried is much reduced, compared with saucepans or other utensils
packed with fixed handles, and the cost of transport thus greatly lessened, and
whereby risk of breakage is avoided or reduced to a minimum.
A sheet metal tubular handle is fixed to a saucepan, or other culinary utensil,
according to one part of this invention, by means of a pin which is passed through
one side (preferably the underside) of the usual cast metal socket and is formed
with a tapering portion which is passed through a hole which is formed partly in
one edge of the slit or open joint down the handle and partly in the other (or it mayr
be formed in from one edge only) and is smaller in diameter from side to side than
the diameter of the base of the tapering portion of the pin. The pin is forced into
the hole and, pressing against opposite sides thereof, opens out or expands the
handle within the socket and consequently firmly tightens it therein.

page_text: In order that this part of the invention may be clearly understood, we have
illustrated (by way of example) a convenient method of its application for the
purpose of fixing a sheet metal tubular handle within the handle socket of a cast
metal saucepan.
Figure 1 shews, in vertical section, the connection of the handle with the socket,
aud
Figure 2 is a view shewing the underside of the inner end of the handle previously
to its being inserted and expanded within the socket.
The socket A of the saucepan B is of the usual character of the sockets cast with
such utensils, and the sheet metal tubular handle C is of the usual character also
except that, as shewn by Figure 2, an opening c is formed through the underside of
the portion which is within the socket when the handle is placed therein, and this
opening is formed partly in one edge of the slit or open joint a down the handle and
partly in the other edge. When the inner end of the handle has been placed
within the socket A, a pin D is screwed up through the underside of the socket A
and its inner end thus passed through the opening c in the handle. The inner
end d of the pin D is formed tapered, as shewn, and the screw thread is, preferably,
formed up to the end thereof. The opening c in the underside of the handle is
narrower across than the base of the tapered portion of the pin, and thus as the piu
is screwed up into place it opens out the sides of the opening c and the inner end of
the slit or open joint a, and thus expands the inner end of the handle within the
socket A and tightens it therein. The formation of the thread along the tapered
portion of the pin enables such portion to be forced within the opening c without
risk of the sheet metal surrounding such opening being bent inwards, as the thread
bites into the edges of the metal and thus screws itself through the opening as the
pin is turned. This opening is formed of an elongated shape, as shewn, to
facilitate bringing it opposite the pin hole through the underside of the socket;.
but it is, of course, necessary also that the opening e shall be originally larger
lengthways of the handle than transversely, to admit of the tapered portion of the
pin being forced sufficiently within the opening to expand the handle within the
socket.
'
The pin D, by passing through the opening c in the handle, securely prevents the
handle from being drawn out of the socket, independently of the hold caused by
the expansion of the handle within the socket.
It will be obvious that the opening c may be cut in entirely from one edge only
of the slit or open joint a, instead of being cut partly in one edge and partly in
the other.
According to a further part of this invention, a slot is formed in from the inner
end of the handle and a sideway notch is formed out from such slot.
A pin
screwed through the side of the handle socket and passes through the notch in the
handle, and is long enough so that when screwed up its inner end will press tightly
against the inner face of the side of the handle which is opposite to the side of the
socket through which the pin is screwed, and thus when the pin is tightly screwed
up it will grip the side of the handle against which it presses tightly between itself
and the corresponding side of the socket and firmly hold the handle from turning,
while the sideway notch prevents the handle from moving end ways. The portion
of the pin, or the greater length thereof, which is within the handle when the pin
is screwed up may be plain or unscrewed and of a diameter which permits of its
being pushed endways through the screwed hole in the socket. The handle is
pushed into the socket before the pin is screwed up tight; and as the handle is
pushed in the edges of the slot formed in from the inner end of the handle pass
along the opposite sides of the pin. The handle is turned axially within the socket
to engage the notch with the pin, and the pin is then tightened up against the
inside of the handle. The pin forms with the slot and notch, as will be seen, a
kind of bayonet joint.
This part of the invention is illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings
herewith, of which Figure 3 shews, in vertical section, the connection of the handle

page_text: with the socket, and Figure 4 is a view shewing the upper side of the inner end of
the handle previously to its being inserted within the socket. A slot e is formed
up the inner end of the handle, as shewn, and a sideway notch f is formed out from
the slot. The pin D is screwed through one side (in the illustration it is shewn as
screwed through the upper side) of the socket A. Previously to its being quite
screwed up, the handle is inserted down the socket and the sides of the slot e
pass along opposite sides of the pin; and when the socket has been pushed home it
is turned axially to engage the notch with the pin D, and then the pin is
tightened up so that its inner end tightly grips the opposite side of the handle.
between itself and the corresponding side of the socket. The inner end of the
handle is square with the axis of the handle, to enable the handle to be turned
when pushed up within the socket, previously to the pin being tightened up.
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. For the purpose of fixing a sheet metal tubular handle within the handle
socket of a saucepan or other culinary utensil, the combination of a pin having a
tapered portion, with means by which such tapered portion may be moved, in
a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle, to open out the slit or
open joint of the handle and thus expand the handle within the socket, substantially
as described.
2. For the purpose of fixing a sheet metal tubular handle within the handle
socket of a saucepan or other culinary utensil, the combination of a pin which may
be screwed through one side of the handle socket to grip the metal of the opposite
side of the handle between the inner end of the pin and the corresponding side of
the socket, with a slot. formed in from the inner end of the handle and with a
sideway notch from such slot, substantially as described.
3. The means of fixing a sheet metal tubular handle to a saucepan or other
culinary utensil, substantially as described and shewn by the drawings herewith.
Dated this 12th day of September 1895.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.