IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING HANDLES TO TABLE KNIVES, AND TO OTHER ANALAGOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHARLES WINGFIELD of Asline Road Sheffield in the County of York Cutler
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
SECURING HANDLES TO TABLE KNIVES, AND TO OTHER ANALAGOUS ARTICLES to
be as follows:-
My improved method of securing handles is especially applicable to Table
cutlery, but it may also be applied to securing the handles of other similar articles
and tools.
In carrying out my invention to secure a handle upon the blade of a Table
Knife (for example), I take a solid handle and bore a hole in it for the tang;
I then form a groove completely round the handle and preferably about a quarter
of an inch from the top, or blade end; and I cut a slot or sawgate across the end of
the handle, down to the groove before mentioned. I cut or punch the blade out
of flat steel leaving a bolster piece between the blade and the tang, provided with
a shoulder next the tang to rest upon the bottom of the slot or sawgate, and
arranged to project from the handle sufficient for the depth of the bolster. It is
reduced in width in the centre, that is, between the blade and the tang, in order
to secure the bolster.
When the blade is placed in position with the tang in the handle, the handle is
put in a prepared mould, and suitable molten metal is poured in so as to fill up
the groove round the handle, and to form the bolster round the top part of the
bolster piece; these two cast parts are connected and, coupled together, by straps
of the same continuous metal, which ran into and filled the edges of the sawgate
or slot, at the time of casting and the narrow part or waste of the bolster piece.
The handle and the blade are thus firmly secured together, and the bolster formed,
at one operation.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I CHARLES WINGFIELD of Asline Road Sheffield in the County of York Outler
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING
HANDLES TO TABLE KNIVES AND TO OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement that is to say :-
My invention of improvements in the method of securing the handles of table
cutlery and other analogous articles, is to economise labour, and improve the
appearance of the article, and it consists in a novel mode of casting the bolster
upon the blade in combination with one or more collars or rings embedded in the
handle, in such a manner as to firmly bind all the parts together.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood I annex a sheet of
drawings illustrating the process.
Fig. 1, represents a blade prepared to be placed in the handle.
Fig. 2, represents the handle.
Fig. 3, edge view of same.
Fig. 4, shows the position of the blade in the handle ready to be placed in the
: mould.
Fig. 5, the completed knife.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in any of the figures.
In carrying my invention into practice, I prepare a blade by cutting or punching
it out of sheet steel to the shape shown in Fig 1, or thereabouts, the part A, upon
which the bolster is to be cast being necked, or made narrower than the
shoulder B, B. The tang C may be of any suitable length.
The handle shown in Figs 2 & 3 is bored to a suitable depth for the tang and
has a slot or sawgate D cut across its end to receive the shoulders B, B, as shown in
Fig, 4. An annular groove E is made round the handle at a short distance from
the end, and is connected with the neck F, by the slot D.
When the blade is placed in the handle as shown in Fig. 4, the shoulders B, B,
rest upon the bottom of the slot D, on each side of the hole for the tang.
The handle and blade are placed in this position in a suitable mould and molten
.metal is poured in, this process being well understood. The metal so poured in
fills up all the open spaces to which it finds access, forming the bolster G, the
space round the tang, the annular groove E and the open parts of the slot D.
The metal in the slot D forms a connecting strap between the bolster and the
ring of metal H, and the bolster being cast upon the neck A, and the broad-
shoulders B, B, it follows that the various parts are all bound firmly together, and
when polished or otherwise finished, present a handsome appearance. In some
cases I make one or more holes through the tang or neck, for the metal to run
through to give additional security.
Grooves may be made in the bottom part of the handle and metal run into them
to form a cap, in a similar way to that above described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The method of securing the handles of Table Knives and other analogous
articles, in the manner as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
ROBT F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.