US1496435A - sobeng - Google Patents

Description

Patented June 3, 1924.

UN STA T? E3 PATENT oFFicE.

EDGAR M. S ORENG, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNO B TO BRIGGS & STRATTON COMPANY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

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Application filed April 6,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l EDGAR M. Somme, a citizen of the United States. and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door Handles, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which are a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a coach-door handle, particularly de-' signed for use on higher grade automobiles, but capable of various other uses.

One object of the invention is to provide the ornamental color finish for the handle in the form of a thin metal inlay which may be readily provided with the desired finish and then permanently inserted in the recess of the handle face without marring the finish and thus avoid the necessity for the usual long and tedious operation of building up a color finish by means of var nishes and colors applied directly to the recess.

Another object of the invention is to simplify the construction of the handle and particularly in the manner of its attachment to the base for taking the pull stress.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the door handle and the method of ornamenting it as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like characters of reference indicate the same parts in different views,

Figure 1 is a central sectional View of a door handle constructed in accordance with this invention; 7

Fig. 2 is a front view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a rear view thereof, the extreme position of the handle on being turned shown in dotted lines;

Figs. 4 and 5, and Figs. 6 and 7 are longitudinal and transverse sectional views of the handle member showing the finished plate before and after it is forced into place;

Fig. 8 is a sectional view through the base showing the engagement of the handle member therewith, and

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the base.

In these drawings 10 indicates the usual square shank uponwhich the handle member 11 is die-cast or otherwise secured. The reduced stem of the handle member is rotatably mounted in the base 12, which is se- 1922. Serial No. 550,136.

cured to the front of the door by screws passing through screw-holes 18 as usual, but instead of a thrust ring detachably clamped on the handle engaging the back of the base plate, the handle is provided with opposite lugs 14 properly spaced from its thrust shoulder 15 for the base plate to neatly fit therebetween, as is shown in Fig. 8. The shape of the opening in the base plate 12 is such that these lugs 14 may passtherethrough freely when the handle is in a position at right angles to its normal position. The handle, however, is incapable of moving to this position after it is mounted in the door because of stop mechanism in the latch itself, which is not shown but which is of usual construction. At most the handle may be moved to the angle shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3,which isinsuiticient to permit of the withdrawal of the lugs 14 from the recesses of the opening through which they pass in assembling the handle and baseplate. It will thus be seen that when the.

handle and base-plate are assembled and the handle is inserted in'thelatch it only requires the turning of the base-plate-to its proper position and the placing of the attaching screws through the openings 13 to securely-lock the handle against removal and the end thrust of the handle will be taken by the shoulder 15 bearing against the front of the base-plate while the pull thrust will be taken by the lugs 14 bearing against thewith repeated applications of coach varnish I and color with rubbing. much in the same manner as the finish of the body itself, and obviously requires a great deal of time and careful hand work.

With the present invention a neater appearance is obtained and a great saving made in the time and cost of manufacture by applying this color finish in the form of an inlay of sheet metal, preferably brass,

which has had the finish applied to it while separate either as an individual piece or when joined with others to form a strip or sheet for convenience in the finishing operation. The finish may be applied to the separate inlay strip Without materially delaying the manufacture of the handles and at a much lower cost than when it is worked into the recess of the handle itself.

As shown, the inlay strip 16 having the finish 17 applied to its face is slightly bowed or convexed both longitudinally and transversely and in such shape it is of a size to just fit within the recess 18 of the handle face. When so fitted pressure is applied thereto to force it to lie flat against the flat bottom of the recess and, in so doing, the edges of the insert strip are forced into the metal forming the edges of the recess and, as the material of which the strip is made is not resilient, it retains its flattened shape and remains securely embedded around its entire edge within the walls of the recess so as to be permanently united therewith. This operation may be performed without mar-ring or in any way injuring the finish on the strip. Other metals may be adapted for this purpose, so I do not confine myself to the use of brass for the inlay strip, nor to the use of a die-casting for the handle member, though in practice these are found highly suitable for the purpose.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A metal door handle having a recess in its face, and a means for giving a color finish to the door handle consisting of a metal plate having a color finish thereon and fitting within the recess with its edges embedded in the walls of the recess.

2-. The method of providing metal doorhandles with a color finish which consists in providing the door-handle with a recess in its face, fitting an arched or bowed color finished plate within said recess, and then forcing the plate to a flattened condition causing its edges to become embedded in the walls of the recess.

3. The method of providing elongated metal door-handles with a color finish which consists in forming a recess in the face of the door-handle in the desired location of the color finish, providing a color finish on a plate of thin metal arched or bowed longitudinally and transversely and of a size to just fit within the recess in such arched or bowed condition, and then fitting the plate within the recess and flattening it by pressure thereon causing its edges to expand and force their way into the walls of the recess.

In testimony whereof, I afiix mysignature.

EDGAR M. SORENG.

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