AN IMPROVED HANDLE FOR POCKET OUTLERY
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 12th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th June, 1887.
I, THOMAS HODDER HEARD of 3 Victoria Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
merchant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED
HANDLE FOR POCKET OUTLERY" to be as follows:-
The chief feature of this invention consists in the construction of handles for
pocket cutlery and consists. of a piece of flat wire of a required length, breadth, and
thickness bent or twisted to form a skeleton outline of a handle for pocket cutlery.
For pocket knives I bend the wire forming the sides of the handle and bring the
two ends together and fold the two sides onto each other.
The two ends as described form the spring or springs necessary in a pocket knife
and are solid with the handle, or the same handle may be constructed in two or more
parts and afterwards riveted and fastened together as desired and springs inserted.
Hafts of any required material may be riveted or fastened to the skeleton frame in
the ordinary manner.
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page_text: I, THOMAS HODDER HEARD of 3 Victoria Street, Sheffield, in the County of York
merchant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED
HANDLE FOR POCKET CUTLERY" and in what manner the same is to be perforined to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
:-
The chief feature of this invention consists in the construction of cheap handles
for pocket cutlery and consists of a piece of flat wire of a required length, breadth,
and thickness bent or twisted to form a skeleton outline of a handle for pocket
cutlery.
For pocket knives I bend the wire forming the sides of the handle and bring the
two ends together and fold the two sides onto each other.
The two ends as described form the spring or springs necessary in a pocket knife
and are solid with the handle, or, the same handle may be constructed in two or
more parts and afterwards riveted and fastened together as desired, any number of
articles may be inserted in the skeleton frame as in ordinary pocket cutlery.
Or the whole skeleton frame may be flied out of steel, iron, brass, or any other
suitable metal and in one or more pieces as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.
Hafts of any required material inay be rivetted or fastened to the skeleton frame in
the ordinary manner.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. 1 is a plan shewing the form of the wire when bent before the two sides are
folded onto each other, pieces A forming the spring, this skeleton frame may be flied
out of steel or any other suitable metal and folded as above described.
Fig. 2 is a plan shewing the skeleton frame in two parts as flied out, and the
position of the springs A.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the skeleton frame, as shewn in fig. 1, when folded, and
the blades attached.
Fig. 4 is a side view of fig. 2 shewing the two sides rivetted together.
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 :
Firstly. Improvements in handles for pocket cutlery made from a piece of wire c
a required length, breadth, or section and bent to form a skeleton outline of a handle
Secondly. In the construction of handles for pocket cutlery and similar articles b
flying out of steel, iron, brass or other suitable metal the skeleton frame in one.
more pieces riveted together.
Thirdly. In the construction of handles for pocket and similar articles as first
and secondly claimed, specified, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.