Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Handles for Knives, Forks, and other Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Handles for Knives,
Forks, and other Articles.
I GEORGE IRELAND of No. 249 Birchfield Road Handsworth in the County of
Stafford Silversmith do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
:―
In the ordinary method of manufacturing metallic handles for knives and forks
and other articles each of the said handles is made from two or more pieces of sheet
metal soldered together.
In manufacturing the said handles according to my invention I employ but one
piece of metal for each handle which piece of metal I operate upon by the process or
combination of processes herein after described so as to bring it into the required
shape and ornament it in the desired manner.
In making one of the said handles according to my invention I take a circular disc
of the ductile metal or alloy from which the metallic handle is to he made and by the
operation of tools worked either in a press or stamp I give the said disc a cup like
figure. I then operate upon the metallic cup by means of tools worked in a press so
as to bring the said cup into the figure of a tube closed at one end. The process by
which this tube closed at one end is made is commonly known as
"the drawing
through" process. By means of other dies and tools worked in a press or by means
of the drawing process or by the process of spinning in a lathe I taper the tube from
its closed end to its open end and where required so change its figure that in cross
section it is elliptical. The handle may be ornamented by the use of ornamental
pressing tools.
The tang of the knife fork or article extends to the closed bottom of the handle and
may be fixed by soldering or otherwise and the open end of the handle is compressed
and closed upon the bolster of the knife or other article by means of closing tools.
Dated this 6th day of November 1888.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Handles for Knives,
Forks, and other Articles.
I GEORGE IRELAND of No. 249 Birchfield Road Handsworth in the County of
Stafford Silversmith do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
In the ordinary method of manufacturing metallic handles for knives and forks and
other articles each of the said handles is inade from two or more pieces of sheet metal
soldered together.
In manufacturing the said handles according to my invention 1 employ but one
piece of metal for each handle which piece of metal I operate upon by the process or
combination of processes hereinafter described so as to bring it into the required shape
and ornament it in the desired manner.
In making one of the said handles according to my invention I take a circular
disc of the ductile metal or alloy from which the metallic handle is to be made and
by the operation of tools worked either in a press or stamp I give the said disc a cup

page_text: like figure. I then operate upon the metallic cup by means of tools worked in a
press so as to bring the said cup into the figure of a tube closed at one end. The
process by which this tube closed at one end is made is commonly known as "the
drawing through" process. "By means of other dies and tools worked in a press or
by means of the drawing process or by the process of spinning in a lathe
the tube from its closed end to its open end and where. required so change its figure
that in cross section it is elliptical. The handle may be ornamented by the use of
ornamental pressing tools.
taper
The tang of the knife fork or article extends to the closed bottom of the handle and
may be fixed by soldering or otherwise and the open end of the handle is compressed
and closed upon the bolster of knife or other article by means of closing tools or by
the process of spinning in a lathe.
In making a metallic handle according to my invention I take the circular disc or
blank of German silver or other ductile metal or alloy represented..in: Figure 1 and
by the use of a pair of dies worked in a stamp or press I give to the said disc the cup
like form represented in Figure 2. By the ordinary drawing through, process I
operate upon the said cup Figure 2 so as to give it in succession the forms represented
in Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 and thereby bring the said cup into the form of a cylindrical
tube closed at one end as represented in Figure 6. The tube Figure 6 is next
operated upon by dies and tools worked in a press or by means of a drawing process
or by the process of spinning in a lathe so as to give the said tube Figure 6 the taper
form represented in Figure 7 that is tapering from its closed wide end to its open
narrow end. A taper metallic handle closed at one end is thereby made from one
piece of sheet metal without soldering and the said handle may be finished by being
ornamented by the use of ornamental pressing rolls or otherwise.
Or the taper metallic handle Figure 7 may be flattened or made elliptical in cross
section as represented in Figure 8 by the operation of a pair of dies and finally
ornamented if desired by the use of ornamental pressing tools or dies or otherwise.
I prefer to fix the tang of the knife fork or other article to the metallic handle
made according to my invention in either of the ways illustrated with respect to the
tang of a knife.in Figures 9, 10 and 11.
In the arrangement Figure 9 the tang a of the blade is made solid.therewith and
extends to the closed bottom c of the handle and is fixed. therein by soldering the
solder filling the closed end being marked d. To effect this soldering granulated
solder is passed into the handle through the open end before the tang is placed in it
and after the tang has been introduced into the handle the closed end of the handle
is heated by a blow pipe flamo and the solder fused so as to solder the tang to the
closed end of the handle. The open end of the handle may also be fixed to the bolster e
by soldering.
Or the tang may be enlarged at near the bolster the said enlarged part fitting
closely in the open end of the handle and being fixed thereto by soldering as illustrated
in Figure 10.
Or a short and broad tang gas represented in Figure 11 may be used which tangg
fits in the open end of the handle and is fixed therein by soldering and the open end
of the handle may be so shaped that it may be compressed and closed upon the short
and broad tang g of the knife by a pair of closing tools or by the process of spinning
in a lathe.
I do not limit myself to the methods described and represented for fixing the
handles made according to my invention to..the blades or bodies of the knives or
other articles.
"Having now particularly' described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of metallic handles for knives forks
and other articles":―
Making the said metallic handles each from a single piece of ductile sheet metal

page_text: or alloy without soldering by the process or combination of processes substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated the Twenty second day of July 1889.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.