AN IMPROVED BEAN SLICER
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Batkin, of No. 19, Dunstable. Villas, Rich-
mond, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BEAN
SLICER."
Sealed the 3rd March 1865, and dated the 13th October 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Batkin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th October 1864.
I, JOSEPH BATKIN, of 19, Dunstable Villas, Richmond, in the County
of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED BEAN SLICER," to be as follows:-
I make a handle of wood, into which I screw or fix a small block of brass
or other suitable material, which I make nearly square, and in it form a
receptacle or groove of sufficient depth and size to contain the ends or shoulders
of any number of small blades fastened together through the side of the block
by a screw to keep them tightly together. The blades have a shoulder
attached of the width required. I make the blades separate for the convenience
of sharpening.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Batkin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BATKIN, of No. 19, Dunstable Villas, Richmond, in the County of Surrey;
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Batkin, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Batkin, executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Batkin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED BEAN SLICER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
I said Joseph Batkin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed; and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Batkin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement :-
.:
This Invention has for its object the better and more expeditious mode of
cutting or slicing beans, and consists of a handle of wood a, with a ferrule at
the bottom, into which I screw or fix a small block 6 of zinc, brass, or any
other suitable material, which I make nearly square, and in it form a
receptacle or groove c of sufficient depth and size to contain the shoulders d of
any number of blades e fastened together through the side of the block by a
screw g to keep them tightly together. I make the blades separate, with
either one or two edges as may be desired, and with a shoulder to each of any

page_text: width that may be most convenient. The blades being separate they can be
more readily replaced or sharpened. I prefer to make the blades of the
shape shewn at Fig. 2; Fig. 3 shews the shoulder attached to each blade.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Batkin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.
JOSEPH BATKIN. (L.S.)