IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING THE HANDLES OR TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Tyzack, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING THE HANDLES
OR TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.
"
Sealed the 18th September 1874, and dated the 21st March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Tyzack at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st March 1874.
I, EDWARD TYZACK, of Sheffield, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for “IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING
THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
د:
This Invention relates to a simple and effective mode of securing the
handles of table cutlery, fish knives, dessert knives, and forks, and other
similar articles to the blades (if knives) or prongs (if forks) when suchí
handles are made of hollow metal, either stamped in halves and soldered
together in the usual way or otherwise manufactured.
.

page_text: In carrying out this Invention the blade of a knife or prong of a fork
(as the case may be) is formed with a short tang-in the usual position
under the bolster, and has a screw thread formed upon it by any usual.
means. A nut of suitable shape and size tapped to receive the tang is
then soldered or otherwise fastened into the open end of the handle or
that end that fits up to the bolster. The handle is then screwed on
the tang tightly up to the bolster and permanently fixed there by
soldering the two parts together if desirable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Tyzack in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
TYZACK, of Sheffield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-first day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Tyzack, Her special licenso
that I, the said Edward Tyzack, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Tyzack, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SECURING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Tyzack, 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.
FATTY
TITANT TH

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a simple and effective mode of securing the
handles of table cutlery, fish knives, dessert knives and forks, and other
similar articles to the blades (if knives) or prongs (if forks) when such
handles are made of hollow metal, either stamped in halves and soldered
together in the usual way, or otherwise manufactured.
It consists in forming the blade of a knife (or the prong. of a fork, as
the case may be), with a screwed fang under the bolster, on to which
fang a corresponding nut fixed into the open end of the handle is screwed
tightly up to the bolster and soldered to the latter if desirable.
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, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the
Figures :—
Figure 1 represents a portion of the blade of a knife to which my
Invention is applied, and Figure 2 a section of a corresponding portion
of the handle of the same.
A represents a portion of the blade of a knife (or the prong of a fork.
as the case may be), which is formed with a short fang a in the usual
position under the bolster b. This fang has a screw thread cut upon it,
as shewn. Into the open end of the handle B or that end which receives
the said blade or prong is soldered or otherwise fastened a nut c, which
is tapped to receive the screwed fang a. The nut c with the handle B is
then screwed on to the fang a tightly up to the bolster b, where it is
permanently fixed by soldering the nut and bolster together if desirable.
This device is applicable to every description of table cutlery, such as
fish knives, dessert knives, and forks, and other similar articles, and
forms a most effective fastening.
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, the application

page_text: and use of a screwed fang to the blade of a knife (or the prong of a fork,
as the case may be), in combination with a nut in the handle of the said
blade or prong, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before
described and illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Tyzack, have to this my 5
Specification set my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of
September, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.