Improvements in Table Cutlery, Hand Saws, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Cutlery, Hand Saws, and the like.
I, ALFRED HOLMES of 27 Cavendish Street, in the City of Sheffield,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of table cutlery, hand
saws and other similar articles with handles, the object being to make the handles
from the same continuous piece of metal as the blade, and therefore absolutely
secure.
In carrying out my invention I propose to construct the said article of tubing of
any suitable material for the required purpose, but preferably of steel.
In the manufacture of table knives (for example) I take a piece of tubing of the
full length of the combined handle and blade and of the diameter of the finished
handle, the thickness of the metal being the same as the required blade; I then
saw or otherwise cut a slit half way through the tube at the position of the handle
and blade, and divided that part which is to form the blade longitudinally from
the end into one end of the said slit, I then open out and flatten the longitudinally
divided part (which is to form the blade) cutting off any superfluous width and
rounding off the end in the usual manner, it being understood that the flattened
blade is left in the centre of the tubular handle.
At the bolster end of the blade the open end of the semi-divided tube is
compressed against the blade so as to form a kind of bolster, the handle may be
either round, oval or of other cross sectional shape and the end may be plugged up
or otherwise closed and finished.
This method of construction from tubular material may be applied to small saws
and other like implements.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Cutlery, Hand Saws, and the like.
I, ALFRED HOLMES of 27 Cavendish Street, in the City of Sheffield,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of table cutlery, hand
saws and other similar articles with handles, the object being to make the handles
from the same continuous piece of metal as the blade, and therefore absolutely
secure.
In carrying out my invention I propose to construct the said article of tubing of
any suitable material for the required purpose, but preferably of steel.
In the manufacture of table knives (for example) illustrated.. in the annexed
sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1. is a piece of steel tube showing the first operation.
Fio 2. the same showing the second operation.

page_text: Fig. 3. showing the blade piece opened out, and blade indicated.
Figs. 4 & 5. views of the finished knife.
I take a piece of tubing as in Fig. 1 of the full length of the combined handle
and blade and of the diameter of the finished handle, the thickness of the metal
being the same as the required blade; I then saw or otherwise cut a slit A,
halfway (or thereabouts) through the tube at the position of the junction of the
handle and blade, and divide that part which is to form the blade longitudinally as
at B, from the end B', into one end of the said slit A, I then open out and
flatten the longitudinally divided part (which is to form the blade) cutting off any
superfluous width such as C, and rounding off the point end in the usual manner, it
being understood that the flattened blade D, is forced by pressure into the centre
of the tubular handle as in Fig. 4.
At the bolster end of the blade, the open end of the semi-divided tube is
compressed against the blade so as to close it and form with the blade a kind of
bolster E, the handle F, may be either round, oval or of other cross sectional
shape and the end may be plugged up as at G, or otherwise closed and
finished.
This method of construction from tubular material may be applied to small saws
and other like implements as will be understood.
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. The manufacture and construction of table cutlery and other similar articles
with their handles from one continuous piece of metal tube, in the manner
herein before described and illustrated.
2. A table knife or other similar implement with its handle constructed from
one continuous piece of metal tubing substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
Dated the
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.