Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM FORD STANLEY of Cumberlow South Norwood Surrey Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:—
For a mode of fixing the blade of a knife more firmly into its handle and of
attaching to the blade an additional part which enables it also to shear or cut.
To carry out this invention as regards the fixing of the knife to its bandle. For
this purpose I form a lug upon the lower edge of the bolster. I set this at an
angle to the bolster so that it projects in the direction of the tang. The lug forms
a part of the bolster and is forged or pressed out of the solid or bent over at the
time the bolster is made and not formed of a separate piece or guard or ferrule
this lug may be either pressed into or countersunk in the handle or preferably it
may be secured to the handle by a screw passing through it to the handle, or the
lug may have a very small projection from the bolster, and have no separate fixing.
The lug may be made of any convenient form. The object of the lug is to resist
pressure upon the blade by nearly the whole section of the handle and not to
depend upon the tang. This lug is always used in combination with a tang and is
not intended to supersede this necessary part in securing the handle firmly. Having
secured the handle firmly I make a scissor joint upon the blade near the bolster
and this carries a blade shorter than the knife blade. This additional scissor blade
or shear will be generally placed at the back of the ordinary knife, or it may be
placed near the handle in front of it. The joint may be exactly similar to that of
a pair of shears but generally (and particularly for poultry carving knives) I carry
a plate on each side of the ordinary blade or carry the shear blade through a
mortice in the ordinary blade, so as to make it look uniform. The extra blade
may shear or meet to cut in the centre of the back of the knife. The shear handle
which will be generally formed as a small steel bar will be carried under the
ordinary handle and be kept open, to be ready for shearing, by a spring. It will
be secured close to the handle by a clip when out of use. The shear blade may be
curved or have a claw to hold a bone or other object to be cut,
One object of this invention is to make a poultry carving knife with the
additional short shear blade to cut small bones and hard parts the blade being held
firmly for this purpose, but the same form of attachment of the blade to the handle

page_text: described as a part of this invention would be carried out in dinner knives
generally as well as in the carvers. The additional shear blade is proposed also to
be used upon pruning knives and for other purposes to which it is adapted, in
which case the handle of it may be entirely steel in one piece.
The details of this invention are shewn in the drawings.
Fig. 1, a poultry carver in elevation. The handle is shewn in section. The
drawing shows a lug attachment to the handle at top and bottom (the bottom is
the essential lug).
Fig. 2, shows a plan of the same looking upon the back of the knife.
Fig. 3, shows a pruning knife according to this, invention; the handle in this
case would be entirely of steel and would therefore need no attachment.
Figs. 4. 5. 6 show different forms of making of the shear blade-Fig. 5 is
of 1. 2. Poultry carver-Fig. 6 is of Fig. 3 pruner.
Figs. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13 and 14 show modifications of the lug attachment.―
7. 8 a very short lug or spur.-9. 10 a lug to be secured by pressing it into a
countersink in the handle.-11. 12, the same principle but the lug is formed by
bending over the handle a prolonged part of the bolster and would be of the whole
width of the handle or wider. 13. 14, the lug is secured by a screw into the
handle; this is the best form and will be that generally employed..
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:-
1. Mode of attachment of a knife to its handle by a lug formed. as a part of the
bolster such lug being attached to the handle below the tang.
2. The forming a shear blade upon the back of a knife.
The parts of the invention described I claim to uso separately.. They would bo
used in the poultry carver with ivory handle. But in some cases the shear only
might be used or the attachment only as a part of this invention.