IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: We, CHARLES FREDERICK BARNES, Manager, and THOMAS NOWILL BATT Silver
Plate Manufacturer, both of N° 17 Sycamore Street, Sheffield in the County of
York do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ATTACHING THE HANDLES OF TABLE CUTLERY AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES"
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 annexed
Sheet of Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates to improvements in attaching and firmly securing the
handles of table cutlery and of other similar or analogous articles, and refers more
particularly to plated dessert knives and forks, fish eaters, fish carvers, and similar
articles having ferrules upon the handles; the object being to dispense with the use
of tangs, and therefore with the necessity of boring a hole down the centre of the
handle, which is thus kept of a more uniform colour, and is not disfigured by
the dark line caused by the tang showing through transparent material such as
ivory.
And in order that our Invention may be fully and clearly understood we shall
refer in the following description to the annexed Sheet of Drawings and to the
various Figures illustrating our Invention, the same letters of reference indicating
the same parts in any of the Figures.
Fig. 1 represents a fisheating knife, as an example, with the handle attached
.according to our improved method.
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A is the blade, B the bolster, C the ferrule D the handle.
Fig. 2, represents the various parts of the same knife, separated.
Fig. 3, represents the same parts seen from the back or edge.
Fig. 4 represents the handle ready to receive the blade.
We make the blade A of the knife, as illustrated, without a tang; and where
the tang would have been, in the centre of the bolster B, we bore a hole, and tap it
with a screw thread, to receive a short screw F, provided with a corresponding thread,
which is formed on the top of an oblong block E, which terminates underneath in
a dovetailed piece G. The part E may vary as it is made to correspond with the
top part H of the handle D, which is also generally reduced in size to receive the
ferrule C.
Through the end of the handle D, we make an undercut slot I, to receive the
Jabal of the block R

page_text: To put the parts together and complete the knife; the dovetailed part G, is
inserted into the slot I, of the handle D, and the ferrule C, is passed over them, and
pressed down upon the shoulder, as shown in Fig. 4.
The blade A is then screwed upon the projecting screw F, until it bears firmly
against the block E, and it may be, if desirable, further secured by soldering
between the faces of the bolster B, and the block E, or by means of a screw or pin
passed through the bolster, and screw F, or by other equivalent means.
The slot 1, may be made through the flat side of the handle D, instead of the
edge, in which case the dovetailed part G, would be made to correspond.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The method of attaching handles to table cutlery, dessert knives, forks, fish
eaters, fish carvers, and to other analogous articles, in the manner substantially as
hereiubefore described and illustrated.