Improvements in the Manufacture of Spoons and Forks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Spoons and Forks.
We, JOHN MAXFIELD, of the Bole Hills, Crookes, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manufacturer, and ALICE STANIFORTH of 221 Upperthorpe, Sheffield
aforesaid do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to a method of dressing the edges of silver, nickel-silver,
or brass spoon and fork blanks after the same have been stamped. In the stamping
process a "fash," or "spue," is left all round the shanks and handles of these various
articles. The ordinary method of dressing off this "fash is by filing, a process
well understood in the trade. Our improved method consists in the use of a milling
tool made to closely follow the outline of the particular pattern blank for which it
is intended. This is fixed and rotated in a machine with which is combined a
method of holding the blanks, either singly or in quantities, and in such a manner
that they may be gradually moved up to the rotating tool which cuts away the,
"fash" from one edge. The blank, or blanks, are then reversed and their other
edge similarly dealt with.
We do not claim either the milling tool or the machiue in which it is fixed as parts
of our invention except in so far as their adaptation and combination relates to the,
particular kind of work described, the process being in this respect entirely new.
Dated this 8th day of December 1894.
JOHN MAXFIELD.
ALICE STANIFORTH.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Spoons and Forks.
We, JOHN MAXFIELD of the Bole Hills, Crookes, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manufacturer, and ALICE STANIFORTH of 221 Upperthorpe, Sheffield,
aforesaid, Married Woman 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 :—
Our invention relates to a method of dressing the edges of silver, nickel-silver,
or brass spoon and fork blanks after the same have been stamped. In the stamping
"fash
process a
or "spue" is left all round the shanks and handles of these
various articles.
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The ordinary method of dressing off this "fash is by filing, a process well
understood in the trade.
Our improved method consists in the use of a milling tool made to closely
follow the outline of the particular pattern blank for which it is intended.
This is fixed and rotated in a machine with which is combined a method of
holding the blauks either singly or in quantities, and in such a manner that they may
be gradually moved up to the rotating tool which cuts away the fash from
one edge. The blank or blanks are then turned and their other edge similarly
dealt with.

page_text: We do not claim either the milling tool or the machine in which it is fixed as
parts of our invention except in so far as their adaptation and combination relate
to the particular kind of work described, the process being in this respect
entirely new.
Reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters represent like
parts, will more fully explain the nature of our invention.
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of the machine in which the milling tool is fixed and
rotated, Fig. II being a ground plan of the same.
It will be seen that in construction the machine closely follows on the lines of an
ordinary turning-lathe with fast and loose pulleys, A. A¹ mounted ou the spindle,
and with a slide rest, B. capable of being moved, by means of the wheel C, at
right-angles to the spindle.
M. Figs. 1, and II shews the milling tool mounted in position on the spindle.
M. Fig. III being a half section of the same, drawn full size, and of a shape
suitable for dressing the fork blanks D, and Di Figs. 4, and 5, D shewing the
blank before dressing, and D' the same after being dressed; D2 Figs.
and II,
shews the same blank, on the reduced scale, as fixed in the slide rest, B, ready to be
operated on.
The rest B is so arranged that on pressure being applied to the handle E the
blank is firmly gripped and held in the required position.
Now it will readily be seen that when the milling tool is rotated by means of an
ordinary belt being applied to the pulley A, and the blank moved up to the milling
tool by means of the rest B, the fash is entirely, and cleanly, cut away from the
blank, and the correct outline of the pattern preserved.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
A milling tool, made to dress spoon and fork blanks, rotated on a spindle, and in
combination with a slide rest, made to hold the blanks while being operated upon,
both being used for the purpose, and in the manner herein particularly described
and ascertained.
Dated this
day of September 1895
JOHN MAXFIELD.
ALICE STANIFORTH.