Files and Handles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Files and Handles.
DAVID WILCOX 14 Manchester Road Warrington Lancashire Foreman of File
works do hereby declare the nature of my invention for FILES AND HANDLES to be as
follows:-
A file without a tang, but with a notch cut into edge of same for securing the
file to the handle, and a handle fitted with ferrule and pins, for securing file to same
in such a manner, that, the file can be fixed to handle, or taken out without the use
of any tools, and will admit of the old files being replaced by new ones, to the same
handle.
Description of drawing. Fig. 3 shews handle & file edgewise, Fig. 2, is a section of
handle shewing a portion of file attached. Fig. 1, shews handle & file flatwise, Fig. 4
is a cross section of handle through E, F. Fig. 5, is a cross section through C. D.
Fig. 6 is a cross section through A. B.
a, on Figs. 1. 3 & 4 is a pin driven into handle for securing ferrule, b, on
Figs. 1-3 & 4 is a slot in ferrule to allow same to be moved partly round the handle
c. on Figs. 1-5 & 6 is a notch in ferrule, which, when the ferrule is moved until
opposite the notch in the handle will allow the file to be inserted after which the
ferrule is again moved to prevent the file from being withdrawn. d, on Figs. 2 & 5
is a notch in the edge of the file to fit over pin e, Fig. 2 & 5 driven across the notch
of handle and preventing the file after being inserted from being withdrawn.
Dated this 19th day of August 1889.
DAVID WILCOX.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Files and Handles.
I, DAVID WILCOX 14. Manchester Road Warrington County of Lancaster do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for FILES AND HANDLES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
I will describe in detail a handle embodying my improvement together with a File
constructed to be applied to said Handle. In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is
a side elevation of a File Handle embodying my improvement showing a file secured
thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view taken on the
opposite side to Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross section to the line E E Fig. 1. Fig. 5
is a cross section on the line F F Fig. 2. Fig 6 is a cross section on the line G G
Fig. 3. Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
A designates a handle, which may be of wood, metal or other suitable material.
Projecting radially from this handle is a pin or projection a. This pin or projection
extends loosely through a circumferentially extending slot b, formed in a ferrule B.
which ferrule loosely surrounds a shank C, with which the handle is provided. The
ferrule may be turned freely upon said shank, but is prevented from being moved
off from the same by the pin a. The ferrule is also provided with a slot d, extending
parallel to the axis thereof, but not wholly across the ferrule as shown more clearly
in Fig. 1. The shank C of the handle is provided with a radially extending slot c,
which slot in the example extends wholly across this shank. Near one end thereof
is a projection e. Should the handle and shank be made of metal this projection
may be cast integral with the shank. Should however the shank be made of wood
said projection may consist of a pin driven through the shank and across the said
slot. Files D. to be secured to this handle are provided with a notch f near the

page_text: butts. The ferrule having been rotated into such a position that the slot d will be
opposite the slot in the shank, the butt or heel of the file may be passed inwardly
until the notch therein extends about the projection e. The ferrule is then rotated
until the solid, portion thereof is opposite the slot in the sbank, thus securing the
file to the handle and preventing its accidental displacement.
Having now particularly described and asserted the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same has to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. To have invented a file handle comprising a shank having a radially extending.
slot, a ferrule loosely surrounding said shank, and provided with both a circum
ferentially extending slot, and a slot extending parallel to axis of said shank, a pin
extending from said shank through said circumferentially extending slot, and a pin
or projection extending across the radially extending slot in the shank.
2nd. Also a file without a tang and provided at its butt with a transversely
extending notch, substantially specified by which a very simple and effective means
is provided for securing files to handles, without the use of any tools, and which
.dispenses with the use of tangs upon the file, and admits of the use of files originally
provided with tangs, but from which the tangs have been broken off. All thaat is
necessary to adapt them for use with the handle, is to file or in other way form
in them a notch as described.
Dated this 20th day f August 1889