Improvements in Table Cutlery.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1891-A.cepted, 23rd May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Cutlery.
I LUDWIG SCHEIBE of 68 Crookes Moor Road Sheffield in the County of York
Manufacturers' Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in table cutlery and consists in forming
the handles in a special manner out of rolled iron or steel and in means for
securing said handles to the blades forks or bolsters of the said cutlery and also in
the enamelling of said handles.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and so that it may be
readily carried into effect I hereunto attach a sheet of drawings and will proceed
to describe the said invention by their aid.
Fig. 1 represents the two halves of my improved handle when stamped out of
one piece of rolled iron or steel and
Fig. 14 is a cross sectional plan of said handle when bent and brazed.
Fig. 2 represents one half of said handle when stamped in two separate halves
from sheet iron or steel.
Fig. 3 represents the said halves bent over and brazed together.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of a knife complete fitted with my improvements.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of the same and
Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of a table knife illustrative of a modification of
my said invention.
Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view. The
thickness of the iron or steel from which I stamp the handles for table knifes or
forks is about 22 gauge and for carvers about two gauges stronger and for dessert
knifes and forkes about one gauge thinner than for table knives. The handle H
may be stamped from the said iron or steel either in two separate halves such as
shown at Fig. 2 or they may be stamped out of one piece of metal complete such
as shown at Figs. 1 and 14 with reference to the latter the halves are bent over
after placing a metal nut J between the same at the upper end thereof, and the
said halves are then hard soldered or brazed. The nut J has a threaded hole m
formed through its centre as shown at Fig. 3. Each blade B is made with a
tang 6' which has a screw thread corresponding to the thread formed in the
hole m of nut J.
The underside of the bolster 6 and the top of the nut J and top edges of
handle H are machine turned to ensure the exact fitting of the blade B to the
handle H as shown at Figs. 4 & 5. In some cases the whole of the handle H
may be made in one hollow casting of hard metal as shown at Fig. 6, by which
means, it will be obvious that soldering or brazing will not be required.
After constructing my improved handles for table cutlery in the manner herein
before described they are enamelled by being placed in a furnace at white heat
and being covered with any desired colour of enamell in a similar manner to the
ordinary manufacture of enamelled plates.
When desired each handle may be partly plated such as represented at h' and h³
and enamelled at h³ Fig. 5. Where the handles H are required to balance the
blade B a piece of iron or other metal 7 of the necessary weight is placed inside
the bottom of the handle H and rivetted thereto as shown at Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it
understood that I make no claim to handles for table cutlery which are stamped
Price Bd.1

page_text: in fancy patterns out of thin brass or German silver sheets but I declare that
what I claim is.
1. Constructing table cutlery with handles stamped out of iron or steel or cast
hollow in hard metal substantially as described.
2. In combination with a metal handle H the use of a nut J and threaded
tang b¹ for securing the said handle H to the bolster 63 substantially as described.
3. The ename .ng in the manner described of the handles of table cutlery when
constructed of iron or steel or hard metal, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 1st do 1001
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Sheffield, Barnsley, and London, Agent.