Improvements in Securing Handles to Cutlery and similar Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Handles to Cutlery and similar Articles.
We WILLIAM BARKER HATFIELD of Livingstone Road, Manager, and CHARLES
WINGFIELD, of Abbeydale Road Cutler, both of Sheffield in the County of York-do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates particularly to a novel method of securing the handles of
knives, forks, and other like articles in a simple and effective manner.
In carrying out our invention (which applies to articles having scale tangs) in
securing the handle of a table knife for example. We make a sawgate down the
handle for about half its length but instead of forming the bottom end of the gale
flat, or at right angles with the sides of the handle, we make it fish tailed, thus
leaving a solid central point.
We shape the end of the scale-tang to correspond with the shape of this saw-
gate having its end cut out to fit upon the solid central point before mentioned.
The end of the handle next the blade is suitably shaped to receive a bolster, and
a pin hole is made through the handle and the tang to receive a pin, which is
passed through them both.
We cast the bolster upon the end of the handle, and shoulder of the blade, and
may further secure it by a portion of the metal connected with the bolster, being
made to fill an ornamental design or recess formed in the handle.
Although we have mentioned that the end of the slot in the handle is made with
a solid central point, such shape being very convenient, we may otherwise form or
shape it so that it shall engage with the end of the blade tang, which would be
shaped to correspond with it.
Dated the 19th don of Nambo 1000
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Handles to Cutlery and similar Articles.
We WILLIAM BARKER HATFIELD of Livingstone Road, Manager, and CHARLES
WINGFIELD, of Abbeydale Road Cutler, both of Sheffield, in the County of York 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:-
Our invention relates to a novel method of securing the handles of knives, forks,
and other like articles, in a simple and effective manner; and in order that our in-
vention may be clearly understood, we have annexed a sheet of drawings illustrating
how it is carried into effect, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar
parts in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, represents the flat side and back of a table knife blade, prepared according to
our invention.
Fig. 2, section of a handle prepared to receive the blade shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, edge view of the entire handle showing the slot to receive the blade.
Fig. 4, shows the finished knife.
In carrying out our invention (which refers more particularly to cutlery and
other like articles having scale-tangs) in securing the handle of a table knife, for
example, and which we have shown in the sheet of drawings annexed; we take a
solid handle of wood or of any other suitable material A and make a sawgate B
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page_text: down the centre for about half its length, but instead of forming the bottom end of
the sawgate flat, or at right angles with the sides of the handle, we make it fishtailed,
and thus leave a solid point C, in the centre.
We shape the end of the scale-tang (of the blade) D, to correspond with the shape
of this sawgate, having its extreme end cut out to fit over or upon the solid central
point C in the handle, as before described.
The end of the handle next to the blade is suitably shaped, either by being set
down as shown at E, or having grooves cut round it, or otherwise shaped to receive
a bolster, F, and a pin hole G is also made through the handle and the tang to receive
a pin which is passed through them both.
We cast the bolster F, upon the end of the handle, and the shoulder of the blade,
when they are pinned together; and we may further secure the parts together by
forming an ornamental recess in the handle, (preferably covering the pin before
mentioned) and filling it with the same metal as the bolster, such as shown at H.
Although in our description and drawings we have described and shown the part C,
as a "point," we do not confine ourselves to such shape as it will be evident that
other forms or shapes may be substituted, the end of the tang being made to corre-
spond therewith, but we prefer to use the shape that would naturally be left by the
circular saw used to cut the slot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The method of securing the handles of Table Knives, Forks, and other like
articles requiring handles, by the means hereinbefore described, and shown in the
drawings.
2. In securing the handles of Knives, forks, and other like articles requiring
handles; shaping the lower end of the tang of the article to fit upon, over, or into, a
correspondingly shaped part of the handle, at the bottom of the slot for the tang,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated the 22nd day of July 1980.
ROBT. F. DRURY, Fel. Ins. P.A.,
George Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicants.