US570186A

US570186A - Handle

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Publication number: US570186A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1913-10-27

Description

(-No Model.)

F. C. ROGKWBLL. HANDLE.

Patented Oct. 27, 1896,

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UNITED STATES ATENT EEICE.

FREDERICK CfROOIVELL, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,186, dated October 27, 1896.

Application led November 2()J 1895. Serial No. 569,501. (No modelJ I To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, FREDERICK C. Rock- WELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles, of which the following is la specification.

The invention relates to the construction of the handles of that class that are made of a soft material, such as cork; and the object is to provide such a construction that desirable, soft, pleasant-feeling handles can be employed without danger of their splitting, cracking, or breaking up and that can be finished with tips or ends that are very strong, are of an attractive and pleasing appearance, and of a color harmonizing with 'the trimmings of the machine or implement upon which the handles are to be used.

To this end the invention resides in ahandle that may be formed of a body of molded and compressed material, such as pulverized or broken cork and rubber, shellac, or a similar binding-gum, which material forms acomfortable and desirable grip-section for the handle, with tips at the ends of the molded and compressed body, which tips are formed with an exterior surface of molded and compressed composition, such as rubber or shellac with suitable lling, or similar compounds artistically colored and shaped, and an inner lining of metal, whereby the molded and compressed body material having the very comfortable and desirable characteristics and qualities can be employed without danger that the bodies will split,` crack, or break when in use, and whereby there can be used tips having an exterior of a molded and compressed compound which can be made very 'attractive in appearance, design, and color, but which in itself has proved to be too brittle, the two dierent molded and compressed materials or compositions, that ofthe body having a comparatively weak texture and that of the tips, which is friable and brittle, being firmly held in the construction of this invention by the light metallic lining of the tips, so that each part of the molded and compressed material will be prevented from breaking under the strains and knocks to which it is liable to be subjected.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side View of one of the handles. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same.. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectionof the tip used at one end, and Fig. 4 is a similar section of the tip used at the other end.

In the views, l indicates the body of the ortube 3, upon which the handle is to be l placed and cemented.` The dies may be shaped to conform closely to the desired finished outline of the handle, and shoulders 4 may be left near the tapering ends 5, upon which the tips are driven, or these tapering ends may be cut down, leaving the shoulders when the body is finished, as by sand-papering, filing, or bufng after being removed from the dies.

The tips are formed of interior metallic sleeves or thimbles and exterior molded and compressed factitious -compound. The thimble of the tip 6 consists of a straight tubular portion 7 open at both ends, the inner walls of which are parallel and made to fit the bar, rod, or tube to which the handle is to be applied and that passes entirely through this thimble, and a tapering tubular portion 8, the inner walls of which are larger than the straight tubular portion and are formed to fit the thin tapering inner end ofthe body part of the handle. The thimble of the tip 9 consists of a straight tubular portion 10, the inner Walls of which are parallel and made to it the bar, rod, or tube to which the handle is to be applied, with one end closed, because such bar, rod, or tube need not pass entirely through this tip. This thimble also has the tapering tubular portion' 11 larger than the straight portion, adapted to it the thin tapering outer end of the body of the handle. These thimbles may be preferably stamped or drawn to shape in dies from thin metal, as steel, and perforations may be formed through their Walls. The thimbles, after being formed, are

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placed in suitable dies and upon them is molded and compressed the exterior compound 12, which forms the contour to the proper shape and gives the desired finish of the proper color, this material iiowing through the perforations in the Walls of the thimbles when made plastic under the heat and pressure to which it is subjected, so that it is securely held in place against any chance of breaking 01T. The tips thus formed are driven upon the tapering ends of the body portion of the handle up to the shoulders, so that the entire outline of the handle is smooth, and are there cemented. Then the handle thus formed is cemented and driven upon the rod, tube, or bar of the implement or machine with which it is to be used.

Handles constructed in this manner are very simple, cheap, and strong. They have a very desirable nish, are neat and attractive in appearance, and can be trimmed to harmonize with the trimmings of the machine or implement to which they are to be applied.

This construction permits the use of alight body formed of material having a comparatively Weak texture, such as cork, but which has a very desirable gripping-surface, for the strong metallic thimbles tightly encircle the bar, rod, or tube upon which the handles are to be applied at both ends and thus take all of the strain, relieving the body of the handle from any strains tending to split it, and the thimbles also bind and hold the thin Weak ends of the body and prevent them from cracking or breaking away. At the same time the thin strong thimbles are light in Weight and they retain the molded and compressed i'actitious compound applied to their exterior in such a lnanner that this compound will not crack and break away, which material possesses very desirable characteristics in that it finishes with a beautiful luster of any desired color and which does not affect the hands that grasp the handle as does metal, which factitious compound could not previously be successfully used, because it is so brittle and easily breaks when subjected to knocks and bruises and which does not alone give strength to the body of the handle.

lVith the tips formed in the manner herein described the small metal thimbles take all the strain and strengthen both the soft composition of the body of the handle and also the tips of brittle factitious material.

I claim as my invention- A bicycle-handle consisting of a hollow grasping body of molded and compressed broken particles of cork and shellac, perforated metallic sleeves encircling the outside of the ends of the body, and tips of molded and compressed plastic compound, that incase the metallic sleeves and extend through the perforations thereof, substantially as specified.

FREDERICK C. ROCK WELL.

lVitn esses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, E. J. HYDE.