Improvements in Carving Fork Guards.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Lelt, 27th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carving Fork Guards.
THOMAS CROOKES, HERBERT CROOKES and WILLIS CROOKES of the
Atlantic Works Sheffield in the County of York Cutlery Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To obtain these improvements we cast fly or forge a guard in iron steel or other
suitable material, of the required shape viz. somewhat in the shape of the frame of
a chair, with back sides and front legs, the said legs being sufficiently wide apart
to allow the same to be placed across the shank of the fork and screw'd or rivetted
thereto on the outside thereof and the end of each leg being made round and
tapp'd to form a screw on each of which is screw'd a ball, or the ends of the legs
may be joined together by a cross bar or left unjoined but with solid feet of
sufficient weight to cause an automatic balance of the guard when lifted to bring it
into position for use, the said balls or cross bar or solid feet acting as a rest for the
fork when not in use.
Dated this 26th day of January 1809
THOMAS CROOKES.
HERBERT CROOKES.
WILLIS CROOKES.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carving Fork Guards.
We THOMAS CROOKES, HERBERT CROOKES and WILLIS CROOKES trading
as Brookes and Crookes, of Atlantic Works, Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers 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:
A guard for a carving fork according to this invention is so made and fitted as to
automatically lift and hold up the guard when the fork is used for carving and to
hold the fork points off the table when the fork is put down so doing away with the
usual fork rest.
To enable this invention to be properly understood we will proceed to describe
the same with aid of the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 side elevation of fork in the angle usually held in use.
Figure 2 shows the fork as laying on table.
Figure 3 detached perspective view of guard according to this invention.
The guard is formed with the guard part A having two arms or legs B forged
or formed on same and arranged for the shauk of the fork to come between and
pivotted to the shank as shown.
The ends of the arms are weighted preferably with balls C so as to counter-
balance the guard when the fork is in the position shown at Figure 1 and to form a
rest for the fork when it is put down on the table as at Figure 2.
We are aware that it has been proposed to weight guards to cause them to
automatically rise when in use, and to this broadly we make no claim.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
we declare that what we claim is :-
A guard for carving forks having two arms attached sufficiently weighted to
overbalance the guard when the same is pivotted to the shank the weighted ends

page_text: being utilized to form a rest for the fork when put down as described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of October 1892.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
1, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicants.