US7981A

US7981A - Trunk-handle

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Publication number: US7981A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1851-03-11
Anticipated expiration: 1868-03-11

Description

. UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

E. A..ANDREWS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

TRUNK-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 7,981,"dated March 18, 1851.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ELIJAH A. ANDREWS, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, havefinvented a new and useful `Improvement `in Lifting- Handlesfor Trunks and other Articles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full clear, and eXact description of the construction and operation of the same,`reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make a part of this specification, in whichn Y Figure l, is a perspective view of one of the lifting handles, complete, showing the movable part as it hangs down by its own weight.. .Figa 2, is a perspective View ofthel same, showing the movable part turned up, as when lifting by it. `F ig. 3, `is a perspective View of the plate, or stationary part, showing the spaces in which the journals of the movable" parts are" inserted and held. Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the movable part., showing the journals &`c.

My improvement consists; in casting the lifting handle in two part, complete,`so that when taken from the mold themovable part may be slipped into the spaces inthe plate,

or stationary part, and immediately attached to any pieceof furniture, for use, without any riveting, or otherwise fastening the parts together.` l

'I make thestationary part, A, Figs. 3, 2, and 1, of cast iron, or other suitable metal, of any desired shape, (ornamental orplaim) with two raised, and hollow4 parts, Band B', Fig. 3, &c., to receive the ends, orjournals, of the movable part, C, as seen in Figs. 1, and 2. Under, or behind, these projections, B, andBQare slots, or spaces, openthrough the plate, A, as seen at w, and Fig. 3. These projections are so shaped that they will hold the journal of the movable 4part in the proper position for use, as seen 1n Fig. 2, or at rest, as seen in Fig. l, while the handle is attached to the trunk, lor other piece of furniture, &c., but when the handle is not attached to any article, the movable part, C, may be `attached j to, or detached from, the stationary part., A, at pleasure.

I make the movable part, C, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, of cast iron, or other metal, in the ordinary shape, with journals. on the ends, as seen at and b, Fig. 4. Having thus :cast the two parts, I insert the end,`? of lthe movable part, Fig. 4, through the slot,

or space, a, Fig. 3, a suilicient distance to allow the end, to fall into the slot, or

space, a, when by drawing back the end, b,

all other methods, consist in casting the n two parts in such shape that they may be put together, at once, by the hands, without anyalteration of either of the parts, or the use of any tools whatever, (unless it be de- 4siredto nish the parts for orna1nent,) so

`that the parts may be taken from the mold, put together, attached to a trunk, and used, before the metal has had time to get cold.

l/Vhat I 4claim as `my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Casting the article in two parts in such a form that they may be put together without any alteration of the parts, and so that they `can not get out of place when the handle is attached to a trunk or other article, when the whole is constructed substantially, as herein described.

ELIJAH A. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

J. D. WiLLARD, R. FITZGERALD.