IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HANDLES AND A
Year: 1873

page_text: ·LETTERS PATENT to John Kilner and Samuel Charles Friston, both
of Albion Works, Sheffield, in the County of York, Cutlery Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HANDLES AND
A "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Kilner and
Samuel Charles Friston at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 25th March 1873.
We, JOHN KILNER and SAMUEL CHARLES FRISTON, both of Sheffield,
in the County of York, Cutlery Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HANDLES AND
SCALES OF BUTCHERS' AND DAGGER KNIVES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be
as follows:-
Our improvements consist in the application of japanning and in the
ornamentation of handles & scales made from wood or papier mache,
for butchers' knives, bowie and dagger knives, razors, and other similar
articles in the same or similar manner to that employed in japanning

page_text: and in the ornamentation of papier mache and other trays. In in first
place we take a piece of wood or papier mache, and cut or block out of
the same handles or scales of the required size. We then, by means of
filing, or turning, or other method get the required shape or form of.
handle or scale required. We then japan and ornament the same in the 5
same or similar manner as that employed in the japanning of papier
mache trays or other similar goods, or by any other known or con-
venient method.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Kilner and Samuel Charles Friston in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Joun
KILNER and SAMUEL CHARLES FRISTON, both of Sheffield, in the County
of York, Cutlery Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Kilner and Samuel Charles Friston, Her
special licence that we, the said John Kilner and Samuel Charles Friston,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
John Kilner and Samuel Charles Friston, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HANDLES AND
SCALES OF BUTCHERS' AND DAGGER KNIVES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Kilner and Samuel
Charles Friston, our executors, or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Kilner and Samuel Charles
Friston do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention of improvements in the handles and scales of butchers'
and dagger knives, and other similar articles, consists in the application
of japanning and in the ornamentation of handles and scales made from
wood or papier mache for butchers' knives, bowie and dagger knives,
razors, and other similar articles in the same or similar manner to that
employed in japanning and in the ornamentation of papier mache and
other trays. In the first place we take a piece of wood or papier mache,
and cut or block out of the same handles or scales of the required size.
We then, by means of filing, or turning, or other method get the
required shape or form of handle or scale required. We then japan and
ornament the same in the same or similar manner as that employed in
the japanning of paper mache trays or other similar goods, or by any
other known or convenient method.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, we declare
that what we claim and desire to be secured to us by the hercin-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the improvements in the handles and
scales of butchers' and dagger knives, and other similar articles, by the
application of japanning and ornamentation, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Kilner and Samuel Charles
Friston, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.