AN IMPROVED MODE OF FASTENING CERTAIN KINDS OF HORN AND HOOP HANDLES TO THE INSTRUMENTS REQUIRING THE SAME
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
ROBERTS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Merchant, send grecting..
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of June, in the third year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said. James
Roberts, Her especial licence, that I, the said James Roberts, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Roberts, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
FASTENING CERTAIN KINDS OF HORN AND HOOP HANDLES TO THE INSTRUMENTS
REQUIRING THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said James Roberts, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six callendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Roberts, do hereby declare that the certain. kinds of horu and hoof

page_text: handles herein-before alluded to are such as are made from horns and hoofs of
animals, which are capable of being softened so as to receive the necessary
impress herein-after described, and that the instruments herein-before alluded
to are knives and forks, and that the nature of my said Invention consists in
fastening the said handles to knives and forks by pressing the said handles
over and into studs, projections, cavities, or indentations, through, on, or in
the tangs of the same, when the said handles are in a softened state, and thus
causing them firmly to adhere to the said knives and forks; and in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said James Roberts, do hereby
describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing annexed, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, similar letters being used to
denote similar parts wherever they occur in all the Figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an ordinary pincer mould, open, for moulding the two scales
which are to form one handle. a, a, are two projections to form a long.
cavity in each scale.. Figures 2 and 3 are two scales made in such a mould,
but drawn of a larger size. Figure 4 is a fork with a tang, prepared accord--
ing to my said Invention, 6 being one of two dovetails rivetted one to each
side of the tang. Figure 5 represents the two scales in their softened state,
placed in their position on the tang, ready to be inserted in the pincers.
Figure 6 is the same fork, drawn of a smaller size, inserted in the pincers,
which it will be observed are provided with a cavity on purpose, to receive the
bolster. These pincers being closed and pressed in a vice, in the manner shown
at Figure 7, the fork will have its handle immoveably fastened to it, as shown
at. Figure 8, where the handle part is represented in section, the more clearly to
explain the mode by which it has been fastened. Figures 9 and 10-represent
a knife handled in the same manner, and Figure 11 is a section taken across
the knife handle, to shew the dovetail. Figure 12 is a pincer for the knife handle,
and provided with a cavity for the bolster of the requisite form, and differing of
course from that provided for the forks. Figure 13 represents the knife. pincer
closed, and Figure 7 the knife pincer in the vice. Figure 14 represents a knife
tang with three holes bored through it, through which holes three double headed
studs c, c, c, are passed, in order to fasten the scales which are to form the handle..
On these kinds of studs the scales should be drilled, with three corresponding
cavities, as shewn at Figure 15, the scales being then placed as shewn at
Figure 14, and pressed in the pincers with the vice when in a softened state,
will become irremoveably fastened to the knife, as shewn at Figure 16. The

page_text: foregoing representations of knives and forks have reference only to those
with scale handles, but Figures 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21, represent knives and
forks with solid handles, drawn in section, and to fasten which according to
my said Invention requires only that the solid handle should be bored
and softened, the tang d cut with notches placed in the bore, as shown at.
Figure 19, and then pressed in the moulds by the vice, as before described,
when they will be immediately fastened to the knives and forks, as shown at
Figures 17, 18, 20, and 21. Now whereas it is evident that the parti-
cular kind of dovetail, stud, projection, or cavity formed on or in any way
applied to the tang of the knife or fork, and over, or round, or into which the
softened scale or handle is pressed, may be varied at pleasure, what I claim as
my Invention being the fastening of softened horn and hoof handles, whether
in the form of scales or solid, to knives and forks, by pressing the said softened
horn or hoof over, round, or into projections or cavities formed on or in or in
any way applied to the tang, or any part answering the purpose of what is
now called the tang of knives and forks, which mode of fastening horn and
hoof handles to knives and forks is more durable than any plan heretofore
adopted, and supersedes the use of rosin, and thus the said knives and forks
are enabled to be washed in hot water without their bandles coming off or
becoming loose. And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said
Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
Her said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
this my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without
reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive
right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Roberts, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forte
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped) by the within-
named James Roberts, in the pre-
JAMES (L.S.) ROBERTS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid James Roberts came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein. contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
a to the tonen of the Statute made for that purpose