A Unique Tin Handle.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 December 1905, Page 30

A Unique Tin Handle.

Our illustrations depict an exceptionally convenient handle for clamping to metallic or other discarded jam, meat, fish, or other tins. The lefthand figure shows it open and detached from the tin. The right-hand figure shows it applied to the vessel. A better comprehension of the simplicity of this attachment can be formed when it is said that A shows a portion of the can, and B a lever to which are attached two pivot pins, C and D. One of these pivot pins is pivoted to the lower back piece,

E, and the other to the upper back piece, F. The handle, G, and the said back piece are all m one piece. Through a hole at the ivmction of the back piece and the handle slides the extension piece, H, To apply the handle, the lever is placed in the position shown m the left-hand figure. The handle is then placed alongside the tm, and the lever pulled to the position shown in the right-hand figure. This draws the extension piece and the clasps protruding from the top of the handle together, and locks the handle to the said tm. In a modification of the foregoing, the lower back piece may be independent of the handle, and the extension piece be dispensed with. It is an exceedingly cheap and effective device, and the inventors are Messrs. Love & Mcßae.