Improvements in Table Knives.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
TRUVIDIUNAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Knives.
I ERNEST NOWILL of Ranmoor Rosendale Road West Dulwich in the County
of Surrey Manufacturing Cutler do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to improvements in table knives.
Table knives as heretofore constructed have been formed with a blade of
considerable length and with a handle shorter than the blade and generally formed
of ivory, bone, or the like but sometimes of metal and always approximately of a
given form and which is well known.
Now I have observed that the great length of blade usually employed is to a
large extent useless as only that part of the blade near to the point is employed in
actual use and one of the objects of my present invention is to modify the
dimensions of the blade and to give to the same a neater less clumsy and more.
practical form.
For this purpose in lieu of forming the knife blade which is of steel of con-
siderably greater length than the handle I reduce the length thereof by about one
half and I sometimes shape the blade in such manner that its greatest width is
near to its point and I there form it to a suitable curve and gradually reduce its
width towards the handle.
Another object of my invention is to provide a table knife with a handle better
adapted to be comfortably held in the hand and which at the same time will
have an appearance more uniform with the spoons forks and like articles for the
table.
For this purpose I form the handle of increased length to compensate for the
reduced length of the blade and in lieu of forming it of ivory bone or the like I
construct it of metal such as silver nickel German silver electroplated or the like
firmly united with the blade by hard soldering and I shape it to the form of a spoon
handle so that it will lie comfortably upon the table the outer end being spread
out and curved after the manner of a spoon handle and arranged so as to fit the
palm of the hand.
By the means hereinbefore described I obtain a knife which is neater in
appearance stronger more convenient in use which can be immersed in hot water
without injury and which generally is better adapted to the requirements of the
table than heretofore and the handle of which can be made to match any of the
different and well known patterns given to the spoons and forks and such as "Old
English," Fiddle," "Kings ""Queens
""Bead" "Thread" and the like.
Dated this 30th day of March 1893.
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WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Argento.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Knives.
I ERNEST NOWILL of Ranmoor Rosendale Road West Dulwich in the County
of Surrey Manufacturing Cutler, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in table knives.

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"Queens "Bead" "Thread and the like so.that the knives forks and spoons
employed upon a dinner table may be uniformly all of the same design.
By the means hereinbefore described a knife is obtained which is neater in
appearance stronger more convenient in use which can be immersed in hot water
without injury and which generally is better adapted to the requirements of the
table than heretofore.
I am aware that butter and fish knives have previously to my invention been
made with spoon handles but the blade and bandle have both been formed of nickel
or the like that is to say the blade has not been a cutting blade whilst instead of
arranging the handle to fit the palm of the hand as proposed by me the position
thereof has been reversed with relation to the face or edge of the blade so that it
would not fit the palm of the hand nor was it intended to do so but it was designed
to be held and used somewhat after the manner of a spoon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A table knife formed with a short cutting blade of steel and a long spoon
handle of a suitable metal or alloy such handle being so arranged and shaped as to
fit the palm of the hand when the knife is held in its cutting position all in manner
substantially as herein shown and described and for the purposes stated.
2. A table knife formed with a spoon handle so arranged and shaped as to fit the
palm of the hand when the knife is held in its cutting position substantially as
herein shown and described.
3. A table knife formed with a short cutting blade and a long spoon handle
substantially as herein shown and described.
4. A table knife formed substantially as represented in the drawings,
Dated this 1st day of January 1894
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.