US1617493A - Attachment for handles - Google Patents

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Feb. 15,1927. 1,617,493

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HENRY MILLER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 'TO AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ATTACHMENT FOR HANDLES.

Application filed November 28, 1922. Serial No. 603,837.

The hereinafter described invention re lates to an attachment designed more particularly for the securing of handles to .five gallon containers for the holding of oil, gasoline,kerosene,.or any other material wall of a five gallon container.

adapted to be stored within containers and although the invention is more particularly adapted for use in connection with the se- :,to be secured within a grooved retention curing of handles to what is commonly;

known as five gallon containers, the sameis nevertheless equally as well adaptedfor the securing of handles to metallic bodies generally; The usual method of uniting handles to containers, is to first locate the handle plate or clip and then to clinch the clip so as to firmly hind or hold the handle in place within the groove thereof, the clip then being soldered by an operator to the container. :Under this method of uniting the handles to the container the entire operation is required to be performed approximately in the factory where the containers are manufactured and inasmuch as the solder for uniting the clip or retainingplate to the container is applied by hand, there is not a uniform distribution of the solder and as a result the fastening plate or clip is not uniformly united to the container or other metallic body to which the handle-is attached and it oftt-imes happens that in the soldering of the retaining plate or clip to the container top that portions of the said plate or strip do not receive any solderat all, with the result that there is a weak form of union which in many cases is destroyedor rup-' turedwhere the filled container is .of considerable weight and the handle torn therefromandthe weighted container causes injury by falling onto the foot'of the carrier of the package. v 4

The object of the present invention is to provide an attaching means for handles whichwill permit of the handlesbeing assembled in one plant and distributed to other plants for application to thecontainer or other article to which the handle is to be united and so constructed as to carry fusible means by which the handle on application of i heat to said means may be-quickly and easily united to the container or article to which the same isto be attached and unitedthereto by a ,uniform distribution j of the fusible solder relativeto the attaching plate or clip. 1 To comprehend the invention reference should be had to the accompanying sheet of medium of the p to the top end Fig; '2vis a detailed perspective view of the handle applied to the retaining means.

Fig; 3 is a bottom taining means for the handle and is a bottom plan view of the retaining' thereto. 7 r v p In the drawings, the numeral 1 is used to indicate an ordinary conventional "handle adapted to be secured to thetop 2. of an ordinary five gallon container such as is F means with the handle applied view disclosing a plan view of the replaced, on the market for the holdingof oil,

gasoline and kerosene. The inturned flanged end portions of the handle are adapted to he recelved lnto a groove or channel 3 ofa' fastening plate or handle clip a, which plate or clip is struck from a single pieceof metal and provided with laterally extended flange members 5. In the present case each flange member 5 of the fastening plate or handle clip is formed with two spaced notches 6, which form opposing seats adapted to re ceive end portions of a wire solder strip 7 r the ends of said solder strips being. bent or 'flanged'over onto the side wall members of the fastening plate or handle clip 4'. In the present case the solder strips, or what shall hereafter be. referred to as fusiblecleats, are arranged transversely of the fastening plate or handle clip and serve to confine and hold theendportions of the handle within the groove or channel 3 thereof. The handle is'thus loosely held within the said channel or groove ofthe plate handle clip 4, so.

that the parts thus assembled may be shipped from point to point for uniting to the container or metallic structure to which the handle is to be securely attached. Inasmuch, as the fastening plates or handle clips are of uniform size, it is apparentthat two strips of fusibleicle'ats of predetermined length are associated with each fastening plate or clip 4, so that with a given number of handle attachments with the handles secured thereto, only a given amount of solder is employed,as for instance, for each one thousand assembled, handles andtfastening" plates or clips, the ,maximum amount of solder or fusible "material employed is one v the employment of strips or cleats? formedand while preference isgi'ven to arranging pound, where the handle and attaching plate is adapted for use in connection with afive' gallon can or container, as against a minimumquantity of three pounds of solder where the handles are united in a manner heretofore employed. While preference is given to from wire solder, it isapparent that ribbon solder may be utilized as-the fusible cleats for retaining the handle within the groove or channel 3 of the fastening plateor clip 4:

the. fusible cleats 7 transverselyrelative to the fasteningplate or-clip 4-, it'is apparent that thesaid fusible cleats'may be arranged in any other manner relative to the said fastening plate and'held-thereto by flanging the ends-thereof so as toxoverlie the upper surface of the flange section of the handle retaining clipor attaching plate. I p v Whenit is desired to unite or secure'the handle-to the container or nietallicstructure V to which the same is to be secured,.it is only required to properly position the fastening 3 plate or clip i; relative to a fluxedsection'of ,tli'e'saidcontainer, when on the application of' suflicieiit'heat'to melt the fusible handle =retain-ingcleat or cleats, the solder will flow evenly and uniformly relative to the under surface ofthe said retaining clip or attaching-member'and when'cooled or hardened securely-hold'thesame with its held handle 1-'to" 1 the said container orcother metallic structure "to'which the handle is to beapplied? Owing to the uniformity of the flow of the fusible cleats on proper heat being "appliedthereto, the handle is secured-to the container or other receptacle through the medium: of the fastening plate or clip 4 withoutcausing a burning of'the surface of' the memberctowhich the handle is applied 7 and equally so, without causing-a smeared I and uglyrapp'earancetobe given to the sur- 7' "face of'the-container at the point of' union l handle is more firmly united or-held to'the of: the attachingstrip or 4 cle at theretoand the containerathan the'same is held where the i entirely eliminated.

solderingor'uniting of the fastening plate io lip-t the container is dependent-u o the p ation ofsolder thereto by an operator.

"By the describedinvention the operation 'ofclinching, the handle within the attachingplate orclip is eliminated, inasmuch as the fusible strips of solder serve and answer as cleats for retaining the handle in position relativeto the fastening plate or clip 4:, and. j

theuse of thepresent invention; thereis a saving- 0f" not less than one third of the 60,.

solder heretofore required to unite or attach .the handles to the container and the discoloration 'tothe top of the container produced by the means" heretofore resorted to V for uniting" the handles to the containers 1 is An additional important function of the notches in the opposed edges'of' the clip, aside from holding the ends of the fusible cleats as described; rests in providing means" for the ends of the fusible cleatsto flowun der the flanges of the clip when fusion takes place, and thus utilize all of the fusible cleats for uniting the clips to the'container instead of wasting the end portions as would be the case if the fusible cleats were simply bent over the flange edges without the notches. This notched construction results iii aconsiderable-saving of solder, of which the fusiblecleats are inade,-asthe exact amount of solder" necessary for making a properly formed" joint is supplied, While withoutthenotches the extreme' end portions of each fusible cleat would" fuse and lieoii the top of the-flanges'and thus be a total loss 7 because they would not in any manner assist{ in holding the handle to the container;

While a rectangular shaped fastening plate-oi'clip for the handle provided with a longitudinal extended groove or channel is illustrated in the accoii'ipanyin'g' drawing, it

will be understood that such constitutes merely a preferred form, of fastening plateor strip, for the said plate or strip may be circular in cross section or be of any othei'l desired shape, just so long as-r the'same is:

provided with aigrooved or channeled section v for the reception of the terminal end por-Q tionsiof the handle 1 to'be employed for use in connection with the containers or other structures for which thesame is des1gnedforattachment. p v 7 Under the present invention the handle, fastening plate orclip, and fusible cleatsfor the retention of the hallCll'lnty be assembled in onefactory and shipped to otherfactories orto distant points, there to beunitedto containers and this shipment madewith'outifearof the handles becoming detached from-the;

securingclip or fastening plate;

The inventionfills a long felt want rela tive, touthe proper-and securely uniting of-the tening plate or-clip'aiid the containerthan has heretofore been produced and providing forthe attachment of the handle to the said blemi'shing the article without marring or surface thereof.

do not wish, liowev er, to be understood? as details of construction so shown and dea While I- have shown and illustratedthe invention in its preferred embodiment, I

limiting or restricting theinventioni to thescribed, but on the contrary wish to bejun derstood as claiming the invention as broadly-i as thelstate of; the artwilliperinit;

-' Having thus described invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of manufacture, comprising a handle of approximately loop formation, a metallic fastening plate provided with a groove therein adapted to receive the ter-' minal end portions of the said handle, said 7 plate having notches formed in opposing edges thereof, and fusible cleats extended transversely of the groove in said plate and having their ends secured in the notched sections thereof for the retention of the handle relative to the groove of the fastening plate. whereby the said handle, fastening plate and fusible cleats when assembled form a portable unit.

2. An article of manufacture for the attachment of handles to metallic bodies, the same comprising a fastening plate provided with a groove adapted to receive the terminal ends of a loop handle, said plate having formed in the flanged walls thereof opposing notches or cutouts and a plurality of fusible cleats held to the under surface of said plate by having the end portions thereof extended within the notched sections of the fastening plate and flanged inwardly to overlie a section of upper surface thereof 3. The combination with a sheet metal container, of a handle of approximately loop formation, a metallic fastening plate provided with a channelor groove section for the reception of the terminal end portions of the said loop handle, said fastening plate being provided at opposing edges thereof with notches or cutout sections, and fusible cleats extended transversely of the groove 7 V in the fastening plate and having their ends extended within the'notched sections thereof 7 and held to the plate by being flanged inwardly to overlie a portion of the upper sur-' face thereof, said cleats adapted to hold the handle within the groove or channel of the fastening plate and'to unite the said plate to the container by a fusion of the fusible cleats held thereto. i

4. The means for attaching open handles i i to containers or metallic bodies, the same comprising a fastening plate grooved to receive a portion of the said handle, and said fastening plate being provided with opposingccutouts, fusible means secured to the under surface of the fastening plate and hailing portions thereof extended through the cutouts of the said plate and flanged to overhe a portion of the upper surface thereof,

cation of a fusing heat, consisting of the combination of a clipformed with a channel,

a handle having a portion arranged in said channel, and solder crimped to said clip and holding the handle and clip together and adapted when fused to unite said clip with a metallic body, said solder passing across the said channel and the handle portion. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

' HENRY MILLER.

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