US522398A - Martin bersted - Google Patents

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M. 'BERSTBD. SHEET METAL HANDLE.

No. 522,398. Patented July 3, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE'G MARTIN BERSTED, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CHICAGO STAMPING COMPANY, or SAME'PLACE.

SH EET-METAL HAN DLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,398, dated rui s, 1894'.

. Application filed December 29,1893. Serial No. 495,074:- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN BERSTED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Handles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which 'are made a part hereof, and in which-- Figure 1 is a view showing the improved handle partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section, on the line 1-'1, Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a view thereof partly in elevation (from the under side) and partly in longi tudinal section, on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sections on the lines 3-3 and 4-4, respectively.

.The object of the present invention is to provide a sheet-metal handle of such construction that it will be of greater strength,

have fewer obtrusive angles and corners and have a more finished appearance than sheetmetal handles as heretofore constructed, and to these ends the invention consists in the features of novelty that are particularly pointed out inthe claims hereinafter.

Theimproved handle is formed of a single blank having a portion that is bent into the form of a tube to form the grip A and other portions that are bent to form the arms B, B, which project downward from the grip and have at their extremities ears I) that. are adapted to be secured to a can, tub, or other article. In the completed article the arms are extremities of the top longitudinal half of the grip, and thence toward and past the lower half, so that they completely close the ends of the grip and present. curved shoulders at C.

By bending the blank so that the flanges of the arms (or, in other words, their concave surfaces) are presented inward,"and joining the arms to a portion of the grip that is curved laterally in the same direction-or, in other words, by making the arms and the portion of the grip from which they proceed convex ontheir outer surfaces-the completed handle has much greater strength at the shoulders C than it would have if these portions were concave on their outer surfaces. This is because it allows the use of arms which, where they join the grip, may extend laterally through half the circumference of the grip, and it"also allows a greater amount of lateral curvature.

Preferably the margins of the metal of which the grip is formed are made to simply abut against each other, but if desired-they may be secured together in any suitable way.

The grip may if desired have a wooden core which completely fills it, as shown at D in Fig. 3.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-= 1. As a new article of manufacture, a sheetmetal handle having a hollow tubular grip convex on its top surface, and hollow arms of curved shape in cross-section proceeding centrally from the extremities of the top longi* tudinal half of the grip and thence toward and past the other half, closing the ends of the grip, the outer surfaces of the arms being convex and merging with the surface of the top of the grip in rounded shoulders whose outer surfacesare convex, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new'article of manufacture, a sheetfilling the grip and arms proceeding from the extremities of the top longitudinal half of.

the grip and thence toward and past the other half, closing the ends of the grip, and preventing the core from slipping out endwise, substantially as set forth.

MARTIN BERSTED. Witnesses:

N. C(GRIDLEY,

, J. B. HALPENNY.

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