Improvements in Knife-handles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knife-handles.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents,
of 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by John
Jacob Eberhard, of Fremont, Sandusky County, State of Ohio, United States
of America, Mechanic, 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 handles more especially adapted for
bread and cake knives, the object being to provide a light, simple, convenient,
efficient, and comparatively inexpensive handle.
With this object in view, the invention consists in certain features of con-
struction, and in combination of parts, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the
claims.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved handle.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section.
Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line 4-4, Fig. 1, looking in the direction
of the arrow.
The improved handle is preferably made of malleable iron, and comprises
preferably a loop-shaped grip A, that is provided with ridges, or alternating
depressions and elevations, on its outer surface, as at a, thus rendering impossible
the slipping of the handle when in the hand.
At the forward end, the handle is divided longitudinally, as at R', forming
members B B that constitute a clip adapted to receive the shank of the knife (not
shown). Members B B are perforated, as at B, for the reception of rivets or pins.
for securing the knife to the handle. By means of the peculiar construction of clip
just described, members B B of the clip will be sufficiently yielding that when
rivetted to the knife they can be made to so closely embrace the shauk of the knife
as to securely hold the latter in place within the clip.
But to still more positively hold the knife blade to the handle, the clip, internally,
at the rear thereof, is chambered or recessed as at 6', said chamber or recess being
adapted to receive a corresponding projecting member of the shank of the knife..
It will be observed that recess or chamber & affords additional bearing surface for
the knife, viz. top and bottom, as at 6, and together with the rivetting and
peculiar construction of clip aforesaid, constitutes a very effectual and substantial
means of fastening the handle to the knife and preventing the latter from becoming
loose and displaced.
:
The entire handle is preferably made of a single piece of material, and when
thus made of malleable iron, constitutes not only an exceedingly cheap and
substantial handle, but one that is light, and susceptible of receiving almost any
finish desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A knife-handle comprising a single malleable-iron casting and terminating at
its forward end in a clip adapted to closely embrace the shank of the knife, the
clip being perforated for the reception of rivets or other securing devices and being

page_text: to embrace a corresponding member of the knife, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
2. As an article of manufacture, a knife-handle terminating at its forward end in
a clip comprising a pair of jaws formed by splitting the end of the handle, the
crotch of the split-end having a recess formed therein and shoulders 2 adjacent
to the ends of the recess, the members of the clip terminating in two projections
extending substantially at right angles to each other and triangularly arranged
relative to the recess, said projections having holes formed therein adapted to
receive screws, nails or rivets for securing the clip to the blade held by them,
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 1st day of November 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.