IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING AND ORNAMENTING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Andrew, of Sheffield, in the.
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING
AND ORNAMENTING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER ARTICLES.”
Sealed the 28th June 1872, and dated the 19th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry
Andrew at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th January 1872.
I, WILLIAM HENRY ANDREW, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SECURING AND ORNAMENTING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a simple and effective mode of securing the
handles of table cutlery, carving knives, bread knives, bowie knives or
daggers, dirks, fish carvers, dessert knives, and butchers' knives, and
other like articles to their holding tangs.

page_text: According to this Invention a peculiar fastener is employed which
the Inventor proposes to designate the "Albert Patent Guard Fastener,”
consisting of a bent piece of metal of any suitable kind, such for example
as silver, German silver, or plated metal, which is made to fit over the
end of the handle next the bolster, and also to extend along one or both
the opposite sides or back and front of the handle in the form of a tongue
or tongues more or less ornamented, and lying upon the surface or sunk
or inlaid therein. Or the guard may be made out of the solid, or a single
tongue may be rivetted on to the boister. A hole is made through the
cross part of the guard for the passage of the tang which also enters the
handle, and in order to ensure the perfect security of the handle on the
tang one or more pins or rivets are passed transversely through the
tongue or tongues of the guard, through the material of the handle, and
through the tang itself.
If preferred the tang may be made much shorter than usual, and the
pins or rivets pass only through the guard and handle, thus leaving a
larger proportion of the handle solid, and thereby preserving the
uniformity of its tint.
In some cases the cross part of the guard may assume the form of a
cap or ferrule, and fit over or on to the end of the handle. The extra
weight of the guard or fastener on the handle side of the bolster of a
table knife assists in "balancing " the knife.
Ivory or other handles may obviously be fastened to teapots and other
vessels by the use of the same kind of guard fastener.
The use of the guard above described adds considerably to the orna-
mental character of the article, and this is particularly the case in table
knives where the guard or tongue pieces may be ornamented by engraving
or chasing designs thereon, or made of any appropriate form or
design.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters 30
Patent, filed by the said William Henry Andrew in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 9th July 1872.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Henry Andrew
Her special license that I, the said William Henry Andrew, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Henry Andrew, my executors, administrators, or 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING AND ORNAMENTING THE HANDLES
OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Henry Andrew, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW. YE, that I, the said William Henry Andrew, 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 following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a simple and effective mode of securing
the handles of table cutlery, carving knives, bread knives, bowie knives'
or daggers, dirks, fish carvers, dessert knives, butchers' knives, and other
like articles to their holding tangs.
According to this Invention a peculiar fastener is employed which I
designate the "Albert Patent Guard Fastener," consisting of a bent
piece of metal of any suitable kind, such for example as silver, German
silver, or plated metal, which is made to fit over the end of the handle
next the bolster, and also to extend along one or both the opposite sides'
or back and front of the handle in the form of a tongue or tongues more
or less ornamented, and lying upon the surface or sunk or inlaid therein.
Or the guard may be made out of the solid, or a single tongue may be

page_text: rivetted on to the bolster. A hole is made through the cross part of the
guard for the passage of the tang which also enters the handle, and in
order to ensure the perfect security of the handle on the tang one or
more pins or rivets are passed transversely through the tongue or tongues
of the guard, through the material of the handle, and through the tang
itself.
If preferred the tang may be made much shorter than usual, and
secured to the cross piece of the guard, the pins or rivets pass only
through the guard and handle, thus leaving a larger proportion of the
handle solid, and thereby preserving the uniformity of its tint.
In some cases the cross part of the guard may assume the form of a
cap or ferrule, and fit over or on to the end of the handle. The extra
weight of the guard or fastener on the handle side of the bolster of a
table knife assists in balancing the knife.
Ivory or other bandles may obviously be fastened to teapots and other
vessels by the use of the same kind of guard fastener.
The use of the guard above described adds considerably to the orna-
mental character of the article, and this is particularly the case in table
knives where the guard or tongue pieces may be ornamented by engraving
or chasing designs thercon, or made of any appropriate form or
design.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose
shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings
(which illustrates the application of my Invention to table cutlery as an
example), the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in
all the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a sectional view of a table knife
with the guard A (made with one tongue a only) applied thereto, and
having a rivet b passing through the tang c of the blade; Figure 2
represents the same guard detached.
Figure 3 represents a sectional view of a table knife to which a
guard A. (having two tongues a and a' is applied, two rivets band b¹ being
also shown passing in this case through the tongues and handle alone,
the tang c being made short and secured to the guard A, whereby the
handle is less liable to become discolored.

page_text: Figure 4 represents the application of a guard having the tongues
disposed along each side of the handle in lieu of along the back and
front, as in Figure 3.
Figure 5 represents a finished knife with an ornamental guard, the
single ornamental tongue a being disposed along the back of the
handle.
Figure 6 represents the application of the guard to a fish cating knife
wherein a ferrule is generally used; and Figures 7 and 8 are views of
the combined ferrule and tongue detached.
The part A consists of a metal ferrule or cap fitted on to the end of
the handle, and having one or by preference two tongues a, a', formed
thereon or brazed thereto extending on the back or back and front of the
handle, as shewn clearly in the Drawing, the tang c being secured in
the handle by one or a pair of rivets 6 passing through the tongue or
tongues, and through the handle and tang, as shown by the dotted
lines.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The application and use to and in the securing of the blades of
table cutlery and other knives and daggers to their handles; also to and
in the securing of the handles of teapots and other vessels of a metal
guard piece, consisting of a piece of metal bent or otherwise so shaped
as to fit over the end of the handle to be secured, and to extend in the
form of one or two tongues partially along the handle, to which tongue
or tongues rivets or pins are passed transversely through the handle
and tang, or through the handle alone, substantially as herein-before
described.
Second. The securing of the handles of knives to the blades by the use
of a guard made out of a solid, or by means of a single tongue rivited
to the bolster, such tongue extending partly along the handle and being
secured thereto by one or more transverse pins or rivets, as herein-before
described.
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page_text: specified, made in the form of a cap or a ferrule fitting over or on to the
end of the handle, and provided with one or two tongues, substantially
as herein-before described.
Fourth. The mode of ornamenting table cutlery and other articles
having handles secured by the peculiar guard herein referred to, by
chasing or otherwise ornamenting the tongue or tongues of the said
guard, as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Andrew, have
to this my Specification set my hand and seal, the Fifth day of
July One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
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WILLIAM HENRY ANDREW. (L.S.)