Improvements in Appliances for Manipulating Butter.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Manipulating Butter.
I, JAMES CLARKSON of 40, Ford Street, Briercliffe Road, Burnley, in the County
of Lancaster, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved butter knife and dish.
The knife may be made entirely of cast malleable iron, including the handle, and
afterwards coated with enamelled pot or it may be constructed in a similar way of
sheet steel or cast steel, or other metal capable of enamelling.
Instead of the handle being formed with the blade in one piece of metal, the
handle may be of any suitable material made separate, and then attached by rivets
or other means.
The butter dish for holding firkins of butter is made with a flange running
internally inside the dish to receive a perforated plate, upon which the butter is
placed. There are slots formed at intervals between the flange and the edge of the
dish to allow of salt brine from the butter to subside to the bottom of the dish.
The dish and its perforated tray or false bottom may be made of any suitable
material, but are preferably constructed of enamelled iron or steel.
Dated this 29th day of October 1896.
F. RICHMOND,
12 Standish Street, Burnley, Agent for the Applicant.
I JAMES CLARKSON of 40 Ford Street, Briercliffe Road, Burnley, in the County of
Lancaster, Grocer, 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 an improved butter knife and dish.
The knife may be made entirely of cast malleable iron, including the handle, and
afterwards coated with enamelled pot or it may be constructed in a similar way
sheet steel or cast steel, or other metal capable of enamelling.
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Instead of the handle being formed with the blade in one piece of metal, the
handle may be of any suitable material made separate, and then attached by rivets or
other means.
The butter dish for holding firkins of butter is made with a perforated plate or
false bottom having a flange or rim, which rests on the bottom of the butter dish,

page_text: and on this perforated plate or false bottom the butter is placed. This arrangement
is a slight modification of that described in my Provisional Specification. This false
bottom is made somewhat sinaller in diameter than the butter dish, and the
intervening space between the flange and the edge of the dish allows the salt brine
from the butter to subside to the bottom of the dish.
The dish and its perforated tray or false bottom may be made of any suitable
material, but are preferably constructed of enamelled iron or steel.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved false bottom for butter dish provided
with a rim or flange B and perforations C.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the butter dish.
Fig. 3 is a section of batter dish and false bottom placed together.
The firkin of butter rests on the top of false bottom D, and the salt brine from the
butter subsides through the perforations C or between external sides of flange B and
butter dish E.
My improved perforated tray or false bottom and butter dish is made of metal and
coated with enamelled pot.
The arrangement is slightly modified to that described in my Provisional
Specification but it serves the same purpose the flange being formed with the tray
instead of with the butter dish.
My improved butter knife is represented in Fig. 4. It is made entirely of sheet
steel the handle being rivetted to the plate as shewn and then the whole is coated
with enamelled pot, or it may be made or malleable iron or cast steel in a similar
way or any metal capable of enamelling.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of ny said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The improved arrangement and construction of butter dish or holder E provided
with some such perforated tray or false bottom as D for holding the butter,
substantially as described and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 for the purpose set
forth.
2. Constructing butter knives of metal and coating them with enamelled pot,
substantially as described and illustrated in Fig. 4.
Datad this 20th day of Jule 1897
F. RICHMOND,
12 Standish Street, Burnley, Agent for the Applicant.