US107212A - Improvement in coffin-handles - Google Patents

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ALONZO B.' BAILEY, OF COBALT, CONNECTICUT. l

Letters Patent No. 107,212, dated September 1,3, 1870.

IMPRovnMENT IN corrmAHANnLEs.

The Schedule refer-ratito in these Letters Patent nd making paxt o the same vlo all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALONZO B.' BAILEY, of 0obalt, in the county Of Middlesex'and State of 00nnecticut, have invented a new and'usei'ul Improvef ment in Coffin-Handles; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others. skilled in the art to make and. use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specieation, in which the figure is a side viewof my iniproved coCin-handle,pa1t of One end being broken.

vaway to show the construction.

My invention-relates to coffin-handles, fand consists in doing away with the central bolt, and screwing the tubular handle piece directly into the lug socket.

A is the body Or hand piece of -the handle, which is made in the form of a tube, and has a screw; `thread eut upon each end, which screws into the screw-thread formed in the inner surfaceof the sockets b1, which are formed in the inner sides of the lugs B, the other endsof which lugs are pivoted to eyes attached to the sides of the coiin in the Ordinary manner.

The knob or Other ornament b2 is cast solid in One piece withlthe lng.

The handle is thus formed of only three pieces,

and` is put .together by simply screwing the ends of l the tube A into the sockets b1 of the'lugs B, produeing a neat, simple, and convenient ihandle, and one easily and cheaply manufactured.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim astnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'f 1. The tnbnlarhand piece A, having screw-threads Y formed upon its ends, to adapt. it for being screwed into the sockets b 'of the lugs B, substantially as herein shown and described. I

2. An improvedleoiiin-handle, formed byscrewing` vthe ends of the tubular hand piece'A into the screwsockets b1 of the solid lugs B b b2, substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose set forth.

ALONZO B. BAILEY. 'Witnesses HENRY C.. WILLIAMS,

F. lA'. RICH.

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