AN IMPROVEMENT OR to be as IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF FLAT TANG CAVALRY SWORDS follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: Tang Cavalry Swords.
I FREDERIC MAJOR MOLE trading as Robert Mole and Sons of Granville Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Sword Cutler and Matchet Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
to be as
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF FLAT TANG CAVALRY SWORDS
follows:-
"
In flat tang cavalry swords as ordinarily mounted the firmness of the grip of
the hand on the handle is somewhat imperfect in consequence of the absence
of any support for the fourth or little finger and the object of my invention is to
improve the mounting of the said swords by the adaptation to the said swords of
an inclined piece or nose at the upper part of the grip somewhat similar to that
in the ordinary wooden grip of a sword mounted with a spike tang.
In the ordinary method of mounting flat tang cavalry swords a plate of thin
sheet steel is rivetted on each side of the tang of the same size and shape as the
tang. These pieces of steel hold down the hilt to the shoulder of the blade after the
latter has been driven bome. In mounting flat tang cavalry swords according to
my invention I shorten these two plates of steel at their upper ends and replace the
removed portions of the said plates by separate pieces rivetted to the tang and
rather broader than the tang and to these two separate plates of steel I affix an
inclined piece or nose either of metal or of some hard non-metallic material. This
inclined piece or nose may when made of metal be brazed to the two separate
pieces. Or instead of attaching the inclined piece or nose to the tang only
also have an attachment to the hilt or the attachment to the tang may be dispensed
with and the said inclined piece or nose may be connected to the hilt only.
may
Flat tang cavalry swords mounted according to my invention are gripped with
inore comfort to the hand than swords mounted in the ordinary way and the grip
is much firmer.

page_text: Tang Cavalry Swords.
I FREDERIC MAJOR Mole trading as Robert Mole and Sons of Granville Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Sword Cutler and Matchet Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF FLAT TANG CAVALRY SWORDS" and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
In flat tang cavalry swords as ordinarily mounted the firmness of the grip of
the hand on the handle is somewhat imperfect in consequence of the absence
of any support for the fourth or little finger and the object of my invention is to
improve the mounting of the said swords by the adaptation to the said swords of
an inclined or curved piece or nose or finger rest at the upper part of the grip
somewhat similar to that in the ordinary wooden grip of a sword mounted with
a spike tang.
In the ordinary method of mounting flat tang cavalry swords a plate of thin
sheet steel is rivetted on each side of the tang of the same size and shape as the
tang. These pieces of steel hold down the hilt to the shoulder of the blade after
the latter has been driven home.
In mounting flat tang cavalry swords according to my invention I shorten these
two plates of steel at their upper ends or remove pieces at the inner sides or edges
and replace the removed portions of the said plates by separate pieces rivetted to
the tang and rather broader than the tang and to these two separate plates of steel
I affix an inclined or curved piece or nose or finger rest. This piece or nose may
either be brazed to the two separate pieces or made in one piece with the plates
carrying it. Or instead of attaching the inclined piece or nose to the tang only it
may also have an attachment to the hilt; or the attachment to the tang may
be dispensed with and the said inclined piece or nose may be connected to the
hilt only.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, a portion of a flat tang cavalry sword
mounted according to my invention and Figure 2 represents an edge view of a
part of the same; Figures 3. 4. 5 and 6 represent the nose piece or finger rest and
its carrying plates detached from the sword, Figure 3 representing a side elevation,
Figure 4 a front elevation, Figure 5 a section and Figure 6 an end elevation of the
said nose piece or finger rest; Figure 7 represents one of the fixing plates by which
the hilt is held to the shoulder of the blade.
The same letters of reference indicate the sane parts in the several Figures of
the Drawings.
a is the nose piece or finger rest having at its front an inclined or curved convex
figure. The said nose piece or finger rest a has brazed to it the two parallel
plates b, b which plates b, b are placed upon or made to embrace the tang cat
the rear part and near the rear part of the hilt d. After the plates b, b have been

page_text: fitted in their place they are fastened to the tang by rivetting. The nose piece or
finger rest a may be attached to the hilt d but I prefer to attach it to the tang as
represented; e, e are the shortened plates of thin sheet steel (one of which is shown
separately in Figure 7) which are rivetted on each side of the tang c for holding
down the hilt d to the shoulder on the blade after the hilt has been driven down
to the said shoulder. One end of each of the shortened plates e, e bears against
the front part of the hilt d and the other end against the plate b attached to the
nose piece or finger rest a and to the tang c. By the use of the nose piece or
finger rest a the angle between the lower edge of the tang and the rear part of
the hilt is filled up and the said nose piece or rest a supports the fourth or little
finger of the hand grasping the sword and hence the firmness of the grip of the
hand on the sword is much improved.
Instead of giving to the bearing face of the nose piece or finger rest a convex
figure a concave figure may be given to it with like effect as shown in the sword
represented in side elevation in Figure 8 and edge view in Figure 9 and in the
separate views of the nose piece or finger rest represented in Figures 10. 11 and 12.
In this modified nose piece or finger rest the plates b, b brazed to it are made
broader than those represented in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 and the side fixing
plates e, e are correspondingly shortened.
Instead of fixing the nose piece or finger rest to carrying plates crossing the
tang from side to side as before described and illustrated, narrow carrying plates
may be used which can be made in one piece with the nose piece or finger rests.
A nose piece or finger rest of this kind is represented in side elevation in Figure 13
and edge view in Figure 14 attached to a sword, and separately in Figures 15. 16
and 17; Figure 18 represents separately one of the fixing plates with which this
modified nose piece or finger rest is used. It will be seen that the plates b, b
carrying the nose piece or finger rest consist of narrow plates fixed longitudinally
near one edge of the tang c, cut away parts e² being made at the inner edges and
near the ends of the fixing plates e, e to receive the said narrow plates b, b. These
carrying plates b, b can be conveniently made solid to or in one piece with the
nose piece or finger rest a as shown in the section Figure 17.
The side plates e, e and the plates b, b of the nose pieces or finger rests of the
several arrangements represented are covered by the ordinary leather grips.
Flat tang cavalry swords mounted according to my invention are gripped with
more comfort to the hand than swords mounted in the ordinary way and the grip
is much firiner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention
Mounting flat tang cavalry swords by the adaptation to the said swords of an
inclined or convex or concave curved piece, nose or finger rest for supporting the
fourth or little finger of the hand grasping the sword, the said piece nose or finger
rest being constructed and applied to the tang substantially as berein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
This fiftonuth dust of Tanu TORR