Improvements in Tools for Scraping and Cleaning Chopping Blocks or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tools for Scraping and Cleaning Chopping Blocks
or the like.
We, SAMUEL SICHEL JOHAN THEODOR KOCH, and JOHANNES BRETSCH, subjects
of the Emperor of Germany, and residing at Offenbach on the Main, German
Empire, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement: —
Our invention has reference to a tool or instrument principally for scraping and
cleaning the chopping blocks and boards of butchers, but it may also be used for
various other purposes, for inst. for scraping off the signatures of wooden boxes
or cases, casks and the like. By using this tool the muscles of the wrist are not
strained nearly as much as by using any other tool heretofore used for this purpose.
In order to make our invention more readily understood we have illustrated it
on the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 & 2 show two styles of
blade or cutter A, the former being provided with two, the latter with four cutting
or scraping edges i. Fig. 3 shows the way of fastening the cutters or blades A to
a handle B. Fig. 4 is a bipartite handle, the two halves of which are screwed
together by means of the screw c, after the cutter or blade A has been placed
between them, the screw e passing through the hole a provided at the centre of the
cutter or blade A.
Double handled tools ready for use are shown in Fig. 5 & 6.
For fastening the cutters or blades to a long, straight handle B such as is shown
in Fig. 3, thumbscrews 6 are inserted through the hole a in the cutter or blade and
screwed into the side of the handle B.
Two cutters or blades are preferably arranged at opposite ends of a long handle,
facing in opposite directions, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1/ In combination a cutter or blade A, having two slightly curved cutting edges i
and a hole a provided and the bipartite handle C, C¹ being screwed together by means
of the screw c, as described.
2/ In combination a cutter or blade A having two slightly curved cutting edges i
and the hole a provided and the long straight handle B to one end of which is
fastened the said cutter or blade A by means of the screw b, as described.
3/ In combination two two-edged cutters or blades A, having a hole a provided
and the long straight handle B, to either end of which is fastened one of the said
cutters or blades A, by means of the screw b, as described.
4 In combination a cutter or blade A, having four slightly curved cutting edges i
and a hole a provided and the bipartite handle C, C¹, being screwed together by
means of the screw c, as described.

page_text: 5/ In combination a cutter or blade A, having four slightly curved cutting edges i
and a hole a provided and the long straight handle B, to one end of which is
fastened the said four edged cutter or blade A by means of the screw b, as described.
6/ In combination two cutters or blades A, each one having four cutting edges i
and a hole a provided and the long straight handle B, to either end of which is
fastened one of the said four edged cutters or blades A by means of the screw b, as
described.