Improvements in or relating to Forks.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1900
I, CHARLES FREDERICK MARRIOTT, 247, Lawley Street, Birmingham, India
Rubber Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in or relating to forks, the object
being to enable the fork to be folded when required, in order to enable same to
be carried with safety so as to guard the prongs of the fork.
In carrying out my invention I provide what I term a spring or elastic handle,
formed of any suitable material and design. Between the spring ends of this
handle, what may be termed the fork proper, is carried through the medium of
pins or projections upon said part of the fork, having prongs which engage in
apertures formed in the spring ends of the handle, being so shaped as to clip
part of the fork carrying the prongs in its open or closed position.
Datad this 11th dor of Cantanti 1000
C. F. MARRIOTT.
Per E: Eaton,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Forks.
I, CHARLES. FREDERICK MARRIOTT, of 18, Sandy Lane, Aston, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Rubber Moulder, late of 247, Lawley Street, Birming-
ham aforesaid, 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:.
1
My invention has for its object an improved fork which can be folded into a
small compass for the pocket with the points completely guarded to prevent any
possibility of damaging or becoming entangled with the pocket or other articles
contained therein. My fork can be manufactured to sell at a sufficiently low
price to render it particularly applicable for the use of workmen.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
fully illustrated the nature of my said invention together with the mode of and
means for carrying the same into effect.
Figure 1 is a view of one of my folding forks when open.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through Figure 1.
Figure 3 i a cross sention of Figura 1 on the line 1 2

page_text: Figure 4 is a view of the fork when closed.
In carrying my invention into effect I bend or otherwise form the handle A
to a shape such as shewn from a length of wire of suitable section while the
prong end B of the fork is stamped or cut from sheet metal of the required
thickness for stability.
The ends a¹ of the handle are provided with grooves a² which may be carried
around the whole of the handle for cheapness of manufacture i.e. the wire may
be drawn to that section and portions a³ of the side of the groove filed away at
the point at where the shank 61 of the prong end B is pivoted to hinge the said
shank b¹ being rounded at the edges to fit within the groove a² on each side when
open or closed the pin at being arranged for the ends a¹ to have sufficient lateral
freedom to open out against the resistance of the natural spring of the handle A
and thus allow the fork prong B to be turned on its pivot while small notches a³
are provided for receiving the extreme points 62 of the prong end B.
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
A fork having the handle A and prongs B connected by a spring folding joint
substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of February 1900
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.