Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 14th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th May, 1887.
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1, DAVID DRYSDALE AUSTIN, of 101 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This Invention which relates to a Mango Fork has for its object to provide a fork
especially adapted for holding the Mango while being caton.
The Invention consists in a fork having a tine of about the ordinary length for
insertion in the hole in the Mango stone and provided with one or more short lateral
tines for engaging the sides of the stone, or the pulp of the mango to prevent the
turning of the stone on the longer tine of the fork
The Fork is formed of a handle of ordinary shape which carries the tines.
It is a well known fact that eating mangous from the hand is disagreeable, and a
difficult operation owing to the size of the stone of the mango and the juicy and
slippery nature of the pulp.
It has been discovered by the Inventor that in the end of the stone of a mango
there is an opening of sufficient size to receive the tine of a fork. The Tines of an
ordinary fork could not be inserted in this opening, as the other tines, owing to their
lengih, would interfere.
D. DRYSDALE AUSTIN,
101, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

page_text: I, DAVID DRYNDALE AUSTIN of 101 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Patent Agent, 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:
This Invention which relates to a mango fork has for its object to provide a fork
especially adapted for holding the mango while being eaten.
The Invention consists in a fork having a tine of about the ordinany length for
insertion in the hole of the mango stone, and provided with one or more short lateral
tines for engaging the sides of the stone, or the pulp of the mango to prevent the
turning of the stone on the longer tine of the fork.
The fork is formed of a handle of ordinary shape which carries the tines.
It is a well known fact that eating mangoes from the hand is disagreeable and a
difficult operation owing to the size of the stone of the mango and the juicy and
slippery nature of the pulp.
It has been discovered by the Inventor that in the end of the stone of a mango,
there is an opening of sufficient size to receive the tino of a fork. The tines of an
ordinary fork could not be inserted in this opening, as the other tines owing to their
length would interfore.
In order that my said Invention, may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1, is a perspective view.
Figure 2 is a plan or front view of my fork in use.
The mango fork constructed in accordance with this Invention consists in having a
tine A, of about the ordinary length for insertion in the hole in the mango stone S,
and provided with one or more short latoral tines B, for engaging the sides of the
stone S, or the pulp P, of the mango, to prevent the turning of the stone S, on the
longer tine A of the fork.
The fork is formed of a handle H of ordinary shape, which carries the tines A, B, B,
-The central tine A, is longer than the lateral tines B, and is adapted to be received in
the hole in the end of the mango stone S, while the shorter tines B, enter the pulp P
of the mango, and engago the sides of the stone S.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Invention
I declare that what I claim is.-
As un article of manufacture, a fork for holding mangoes, formed of a handle H, a
long central tine A, and one or more short lateral tines B, substantially as and for the
purposes herein before set forth with reference to the annexed drawing.
Dated this 13th day of April 1887.