IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO CUTLERY, TEAPOTS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES AND IN SECURING FERRULES TO HANDLES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Brooke and John Brooke both of Sheffield in the
County of York for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES
TO CUTLERY, TEAPOTS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES AND IN SECURING
FERRULES TO HANDLES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Brooke and John
Brooke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1882.
THOMAS BROOKE and JOHN BROOKE, both of Sheffield in the County of York.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO CUTLERY, TEAPOTS, AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN SECURING FERRULES TO HANDLES."
Our Invention relates to improvements in attaching handles to Cutlery, Teapots,.
and to other analagous articles, but more especially in attaching the handles of
Table Cutlery, and particularly those of plated dessert knives and forks, without
the use of pins, resin or other cement, and preferably. to blades or forks having no
tangs, in a simple, firm and endurable manner, and so that it will be impossible for
the blade to become loose or separate from the handle, by the action of hot water,
or from any other cause, except breakage
The advantage of a firm attachment of the two parts, namely the blade and the
handle, and the avoidance of the disfiguring dark line produced in the handle by
the use of a tang, which is most apparent in the best or transparent quality of
ivory bandles will be readily understood.
In carrying out our invention as applied to an oval ivory handled plated dessert
knife, without tang (for example) we secure by soldering or other analagous
process, to the bolster of the blade, a plain oval ferrule corresponding in size to the
end of the ivory handle to which it is to be secured-During the formation of the
handle, grooves or indentations are formed round or upon that part on which
the ferrule is to be fitted and the ferrule (with the attached blade) being placed in
the desired position on the handle, it is compressed by spinning, cramping, or is by
other means imbedded in the grooves or indentations formed in the ivory handle-
Thus the parts are securely attached together, and the ferrule is also considerably
hardened and stiffened by the operations it has passed through. Ferrules may be
also attached to blades having tangs and secured to the handles in a similar.
manner to that described Ferrules without the blades may be secured to handles
by the herein before described process of being pressed or imbedded into grooves or
indentations formed in the handle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Brooke & John Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th December 1882.
THOMAS BROOKE and JOHN BROOKE, both of Sheffield in the County of York
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO CUTLERY, TEAPOTS AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN SECURING FERRULES TO HANDLES "
Our Invention relates to improvements in attaching handles by means of ferrules
to steel and plated cutlery, to Teapots and other similar Vessels, and in securing
Ferrules to Handles, without the use of resin or other cement; or pins or rivets,
and preferably to blades without tangs.
In applying our invention to securing the handles of Cutlery, we make the blade
with a short projecting piece under the bolster, of a slightly coned shape, the
smaller end of the cone being next to the bolster, and terminating in a short
central pin. We make the end of the handle of a similar conical shape having a
hole for the reception of the short pin before mentioned, and we insert the coned
ends of the bolster, and of the handle into the opposite ends of a ferrule, of a
length equal to that of both the coned ends before mentioned, and force the short
pin on the bolster into the hole in the handle until the faces of the cones meet;
we then compress each end of the ferrule by means of a suitable tool, or tools, and
thus contract them, or cause them to shrink upon and clasp closely round the cone
shaped end of each part, binding them securely together In some cases the ferrule
may be attached permanently to the bolster of the blade by soldering, and only
compressed over the coneshaped end of the Handle. The parts of a handle,
composed or built up of two or more pieces of material, may be joined together by
a ferrule or ferrules secured to each part by the means before described.
In applying our invention to securing the handles of Teapots or other similar
vessels, we use various modifications of our invention, thus according to one plan
we make the nonconductor with a projecting piece on each side of the central disc,
and form on these projecting pieces, grooves, rings, or indentations; the handle and
the sockets are prepared to receive these pieces and when placed in position, the
metal of the handle and the sockets is compressed by suitable tools, over or into
the rings, grooves, or indentations, thus securing the parts together.
In another arrangement we attach by similar means, to the ends of the non
conductor, short pieces of metallic pipe, and after inserting them into the sockets
and handle, we secure them by soldering.
We will now refer to the annexed sheet of Drawings, which illustrate our
invention, in which the same letters indicate similar parts in all the figures.
Fig. 1 represents a completed knife put together according to our invention; A is
the handle, B the blade, Ċ the ferrule D, the bolster.
Fig. 2 shows the various parts separately E is the coneshaped piece on the
bolster, F, the corresponding piece on the handle, G, the short pin, and H the
corresponding hole in the handle.
Fig. 3 gives a sectional view of the parts when put together.
Fig. 4 represents the handle of a Teapot or other vessel, secured to the socket I,
of the Pot J, by means of the nonconductor K. shown separately in fig 5, having
grooves L into which the metal of the socket I and that of the handle M is
compressed by a suitable tool.
Fig. 6, shows the method of using the two short tubes N herein before described
secured to the nonconductor K, which are inserted into and soldered to the
handle M and the socket I.-Figs. 7 and 8-show a further modification in which
no indication of the method of securing the handle is visible.

page_text: Having now described and fully ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and the manner in which it may be carried into effect, We observe in conclusion
that what we consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the invention
secured to us by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent, is,-
.
First, The method of attaching the handles of steel and plated cutlery by means
of ferrules which are compressed and contracted upon coneshaped pieces formed on
either the handle or the bolster, or on both of them, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated.
Second, Securing ferrules to handles, and the method of joining the parts of
built up handles by means of ferrules, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Third, The method of attaching the handles of Teapots and of other similar
Vessels in the manner substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
In Witness whereof we the said Thomas Brooke and John Brooke have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this fourth day of December, in the year
of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
THO. BROOKE (L.S.)
JOHN
BROOKE (L.S.)