GB554243A - Improvements in handles for portable and other articles - Google Patents

Abstract

554,243. Handles. LEE, A., and BARROW HEPBURN & GALE, Ltd. Dec. 24, 1941, No. 16642. [Class 133] In a handle of the kind provided with a blade spring connected at one or each end to end links slidable in guides and adapted to lie flat against the article when not in use for carrying, means are provided to constrain the end link or links to move as a unit with the handle when assuming the flattened position, in such a manner that the connection does not shorten the effective length of the spring. In the construction shown in Fig. 5 the spring 1 is formed with extensions 9 which are looped at 8 around the near ends of the curved links 3, the folded-back extensions meeting or nearly so or even over-lapping on the upper or under face of the spring, tongues 10 integral with the links being disposed between the extensions and the spring proper with a thrust bar 11 of leather or like material disposed between them and abutting their inner ends. To prevent lateral displacement of the spring and the links tongues 15 integral with the handle covering 14 are bent around the near ends of the Tinks. Alternatively this is effected by seating the spring in grooves in the links or by forming the spring with lateral projections embracing the near ends of the links. Fig. 9 shows a construction in which the single tongue ds replaced by a pair of tongues 20 engaged between the packing strips of the handle; in this form the spring may have closed end-eyes, the folded-back extensions 9 being omitted. Specifications 292,680 and 307,287, [both in Class 133]. are referred to.