US1427603A - Casket handle - Google Patents

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' F. 1.1 KALLMEYER.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1919.

1,427,603, I Patented Aug. 29, 1922.

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FRANK J. KALLMEYEE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CRANE & BREED TvIANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO,

GASKET HANDLE.

negates.

Application filed April 7,

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it know n that I, FRANK J. KALLMnmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket Handles, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide new and improved means for connecting the bar with the arm of a casket handle, my invention consisting in novel means whereby the handle-bar is firmly secured in the openings of the arms of the casket handle by pressing a portion of the metal of the wall of the opening of the arm, and especially of the reenforce-bar in the arm, into the surface of the bar, so as to firmly secure the bar and arms together and prevent relative longitudinal movement and also turning movement between the bar and the arms.

The invention will be further readily understood from the following description and claims, and from the drawings, in which latter:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a caskethandle,emb0dying my invention, the caskethandle being partly broken away.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the same, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, showing the bar and arm in raised position in full lines, and in lowered position in dotted lines.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section detail, takenon a line corresponding to the line 14 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, showing a detail of the handle, and showing the arm thereof as being secured to the bar; and,

Fig. 6 is a detail of the punching tool.

11 represents the lug of the casket handle. The lug is attached to the casket, a portion of the wall of which is exemplified at 12, in any suitable manner, as by means of screws 13. The lug may be of suitable material and is usually constructed of metal,'either being formed up out of sheet metal, or as'a casting out of socalled white metal, which is comparatively sc-ft metal adapted to be conveniently cast into the various ornate forms of lugs of this character.

Arms 15 are pivoted to the lug, as by means of pivot-pins 16 extending through holes in said arms and in wings 17 extending from the lug 11 at the respective sides of said arms. Th arms are exemplified as re- Patented Aug. 29, 1922.

1919. Serial No. 288,105.

spectvely comprising a body 20 cast out of a suitable relatively soft metal, usually known as white metal, adapted to be conveniently cast for receiving the proper contours and shapes in which arms of this character are usually formed. The arms are sub- JGCCGCl to great stresses when carrying the casket and its contents, and I preferably provide a reenforce-plate 21, preferably of sheet-steel, which is imbedded in the cast metalof the arm.

The arm is provided with an opening 2a in which the bar 25 is received. This openmg 1s formed by the wall of the relatively soft metal of the casting, in which the wall of the reenforce-plate is imbedded. These walls surround the bar. The reenforceplate is preferably a more ductile metal than the soft metal, which latter is more brittle.

The bar is preferably formed by a sheetmetal shell 31, inwhich there is a core 32, for instance of wood. The bar may be provided with suitable tips 33, suitably secured to the ends of the bar.

The rear or bottom stretches 35, 36, of the walls of the openings in the casting and reenforce-plate. of the arm, are preferably so arranged that the inner faces of said stretches are exposed to the bar. These stretches are the rear stretches when the arms and bar are in normal depending relation, and the bottom stretches-when the arms and bar are laterally extended for carrying the casket.

It is essential in casket handle construction, that a firm connection be provided between the bar and the arms, for the reason that the weight of the casket and its contents is often very great, and a safe carrying of F or this purpose I bend the metal of the wall of the opening in the arm, into the surface of the bar, accomplished, in the present instance, by punching a portion or portions of the rear or under stretch of the wall of the opening in the reenforce plate into the bar in said opening, so that the inner face of said portion or portions of said stretch will be imbedded in the bar, or pressed into the outer surface of the bar, so as to extend below or into the normal plane of said surface.

This may be accomplished means of a suitable punching tool 41, having a punclr ing or indenting surface as, which is rouglr ened or preferably ribbed as shown at 43, for preventing slippage between said tool and the metal of the stretch, the said indenting surface being suficiently long to extend entirely across the rear or under stretch 36 of the wall of the opening in the reenforceplate. The punching may be accomplished by holding the punching tool over said stretch while the other side of the arm and bar is suitably supported so as not to injure the finish or surface of said arm or bar, as on a support a l, cushioned by a suitable pad 45, the tool being struck a blow of suflicient force, as by a hammer, indicated at 46, for forcing the metal of the tretch of the wall of the opening of the reenforceplate into the sheet metal of the bar, and thereby indenting the latter, for having a protuberance or protuberances 47 in the said inner stretch formed by the blow received in an indentation or indentations ther by made in the metal of the bar, the inner surface of the sheet metal of the bar thereby simultaneously forming a protuberance or protuberances 48, indented and received into an indentation or indentations 4-9 formed simultaneously by said blow in the core of the bar. The punching may be accomplished in a suitable press. The protuberances and indentations form walls by displacements of material, and these walls coact to prevent movements in all directions between the wall of the opening in the arm and the bar, including its shell and core, especially length wise of the bar as shown in Figs. and 5, and crosswise of the bar as shown in Figs. 3 and 5.

The indenting of the stretch of the reenforce-plate is preferably accomplished, in the present exemplification, in such manner as to force the metal of said stretch 36 inwardly relatively to the metal of the rear or bottom stretch 35 of the comparatively soft-metal cas ing, accomplished by providing said wall 35 of the comparatively softm-etal casting with holes 51, through which the punching end of the punching tool is received against the stretch 36, the inner surface of the sheet-metal stretch being pre sented to the bar for the purpose of indent ing the latter.

The sheet-metal shell of the bar is preferably provided with longitudinal outer grooves 53, forming inwardly extending longitudinal beads. The beads are preferably received in longitudinal groovesee in the 1 ,ee'neoe core. The protuberances a l, .6, are preferably received in these grooves.

By means of my invention the arm, sheetietal shell of the bar, and the core of the bar are simultaneously fixed together so as to prevent movements between the bar and its core and the arms of the handle in directions lengthwise of the bar, and also about the axis of the bar, the employment of additional attaching means is avoided, and a pleasing appearance is presented.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a casket handle, the combination of a pivoted arm, said arm having an opening, and a bar received in said opening, a p r tion of the wall of said opening indent inwardly into said bar by pressure to form a protuberance at the inner face of said portion, and an indentation at the outer face of said bar with the wall of said indentation surrounding said protuberance.

2. In a casket handle, the combination of a pivoted arm having an opening, and a bar comprising a core and asheet-metal shell surrounding said core, said bar located in said opening, a portion of the wall of said opening indented inwardly into said shell by pressure and a coincident portion of said shell indented inwardly into said core by pressure to form a protuberance at the inner face of said portion of said arm and an indentation the outer face and a protuberance at the inner face of said shell and an. indentation at the outer face of said core, with the walls of said respective indentations surrounding said protuberances respectively.

, 3. In a casket handle, the combination of a pivoted arm comprising a reenforce-plate of relatively hard metal and a casting of relatively soft metal about said reenforceplate, said rcenforceplxte and said castinghaving an opening therein with said reen force-plate having an integral wall completely surrounding said opening, and a bar received in said opening, a portion of said wall provided with an inwardly extending protuberance extending inwardly into said bar to form an indentation in said bar, and said casting provided with a recess at said protuberance outwardly from said protuberance, with the wall of said indentation surrounding; said protuberance whereby to fixsaid bar in said arm.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK' J. KALLMEYER.

\Vitnesses:

Gnonon S. HAwKn, THERESA M. Sirens.

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