IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO CUTLERY AND OTHER ARTICLES.
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Thomas Tuke of N° 14 Gloucester Street Sheffield
in the County of York Manager in the Employment of Messieurs William
Hutton and Sons of Sheffield aforesaid Silversmiths for an Invention of
TDARMIMIMA
& PRON ARTISA
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Thomas Tuke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1883.
GEORGE THOMAS TUKE of N° 14 Gloucester Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manager, in the employment of Messieurs William Hutton & Sons of
Sheffield aforesaid, Silversmiths. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO
CUTLERY AND OTHER ARTICLES.
»
My invention relates to the attachment of handles to cutlery and other articles
requiring handles to be similarly attached such as table knives and forks, fish
carvers, fish eaters, dessert knives and forks, and particularly to those articles
when formed, of silver, or electro plated, and has for its object to effect such
attachment in a simple, expeditious, effectual and enduring manner with facility
for withstanding the action of hot water or such like strain without necessitating
any interference with the appearance or solidity of the visible portion of such
handles.
In carrying out my invention, as applied say to a fish eater knife, for instance,
I attach or secure a metal ferrule of ornamental or other character to the shoulder
end of the blade by soldering or such like process
I further form the upper end of the handle to fit the interior of the ferrule, and
I perforate in one or more directions, and groove the part of the handle so fitted
to the ferrule and apply pins or pieces of metal in those perforations so that upon
filling the interior of the ferrule on the blade to the desired extent with molten
metal or solder and pressing therein the handle end prepared as described the
attachment of the blade and its handle will be secured by such solder or metal

page_text: attaching itself to the blade, ferrule, and pins or pieces of metal in the perforations
of the end of the handle and forming a solid, firm, secure, and enduring junction
of the parts.
In place of forming perforations through the ends of the handles fitted to the
interiors of the ferrules on the blades these metal pieces for the solder or molten
metal to attach itself to, may take the form of a ring sunk in a recess, or the pieces
of metal for the solder to attach itself to, may be otherwise applied.
In the case of forks and other articles, to which, handles are desired to be
similarly attached, corresponding means are adopted.
The solder or composition of metals, which I have found best adapted for 1
effecting the junction of the parts above described is composed of equal parts of
Bismuth and Tio.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Thomas Tuke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
September 1883.
GEORGE THOMAS TUKE of No 14 Gloucester Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manager in the Employment of Messieurs William Hutton and Sons of
Sheffield, aforesaid, Silversmiths "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO
CUTLERY AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
My Invention relates to means for effecting the attachment of handles to cutlery
and other articles, requiring handles to be similarly attached, such as table knives
and forks, fish carvers, fish eaters, dessert knives and forks, and particularly to
those articles when formed of silver or other metal, electro-plated or otherwise and
it has for its object to effect such attachment, in a simple expeditious, effectual and
enduring manner, without the necessity for the aid of tangs, heretofore used for
this purpose, and with facility for withstanding the action of hot water or such
like injurious influence and without necessarily interfering with the appearance or
solidity of the visible portion of such handles.
In carrying out my invention, as applied, say to a fish eater, knife for instance,
I attach or securo a metal ferrule of ornamental or other character, to the shoulder
end of the blade, or other article by soldering or such like process.
I further form the upper end of the handle to fit the interior of this ferrule, and
I perforate in one or more directions and groove the part of the handle so fitted to
the ferrule and apply pins or pieces of metal in those perforations so that upon
filling the interior of the ferrule, on the blade, to the desired extent, with molten
metal or solder and pressing therein the handle end, prepared as described, the
attachment of the blade and its handle will be secured by such solder or metal,
attaching itself when in a heated state to the blade-ferrule, and pins, or pieces of
metal, in the perforations of, or on the end of the handle, thereby forming a solid,
firm, secure and enduring junction of the parts.
In place of forming perforations through the ends of the handles, fitted to the
interiors of the ferrules on the blades, these metal pieces for the solder or molten
metal to attach itself to, may take the form of a ring sunk in a recess, or the pieces
of metal, for the solder to attach itself to, may be otherwise applied.
In the case of forks, and other articles, to which handles are desired to be
similarly attached, corresponding means are adopted.
The solder or composition of metals, which I have found, best adapted for
effecting the junction of the parts above described, is composed of equal parts of
bismuth and tin.
But that the invention may be the better understood I will by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying the
same inot effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 shews a side view of a fish-eating-knife, with parts thereof arranged
according to my invention.
The form of this knife with its handle as shown is only of the character

page_text: Figure 2 shews a side view of a blade a (Figure 1) separately but partly in
section and Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 2. Figure 4 shows a side view of
a handle separately. Figure 5 an end view thereof. In these figures the blade a
is provided at its shoulder end a¹ with a metal ferrule b of an ornamental or other
character, the ferrule b is connected to the shoulder a¹ of the blade a by soldering
or such like process and the interior of this ferrule b is corrugated or otherwise
formed the better to receive and hold solder. I also perforate in one or more
directions the neck d of the handle c and I apply pins or pieces of metal d³, by
preference solder or other suitable soft metal in these perforations or I forin grooves
or recesses in the outer surface of such neck d, so that upon filling the interior of
the ferrule b to the desired extent with suitable soft molten metal or solder and
pressing therein the neck d of the handle c and applying at the same time
sufficient heat to the combined parts, the attachment of these parts will be effected
and secure on their cooling, thereby forming a solid, firm and enduring junction
of the parts.
In place of forming perforations through the neck d of the handle for the metal
as described the solder or other soft metal may be applied to such neck in the form
of a ring or series of rings or a ferrule aided by pins d', as indicated by Figures 6
and 7 and the parts connected together by heating them as described.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect I would have it understood that what I claim is the improvements
in attaching handles to cutlery and other articles substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said George Thomas Tuke have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twentieth day of September One thousand eight hundred and
eighty three.