IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE KNIVES
Year: 1852

page_text: in Trade, William Thorne, under the Firm of Thomas Turner
and Company, Merchants and Manufacturers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE KNIVES."
Sealed the 8th January 1853, and dated the 1st October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joshua Smith at.
the office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his petition, on
the 1st October 1852.
I, JOSHUA SMITHI, of Sheffield, in the County of York, carrying on
business along with my partner in trade, William Thorne, under the
firm of Thomas Turner and Company, as Merchants and Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE KNIVES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of fixing sockets on to the blades, and fixing.
the ends of the handles in such sockets by screws or rivets, such
sockets being used with or without tangs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joshua Smith, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 30th March 1853:
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COME, I,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
JOSHUA SMITH, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Merchant, carrying
on business along with my Partner in Trade, William Thorne, under the
firm of Thomas Turner and Company, Merchants' and Manufacturers,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did for Herself; Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joshua Smith, Her special licence that I, the said
Joshua Smith, my exécutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Joshua Smith, my executors, administrators, and 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 law-
fully 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 TABLE KNIVES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joshua Smith, 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 Joshua Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The Invention consists of fixing sockets on to the blades, and fixing
the ends of the handles in such sockets by screws or rivets, such sockets
being used with or without tangs. And in order that my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, may be most

page_text: fully understood,
annexed.
oceed to describe що
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
Which represents a table knife constructed according to my Inven-
tion, there being no tang used; but a tang as well as a socket may be
employed, in which case the socket would be applied to a blade made
with a tang; a, is the blade, b, is the socket which I usually fix by
brazing, but it may be otherwise fixed to the blade; c, is a rivet, or it
may be a screw, which should be beaten down and rivetted at its ends,
and the holes through the socket should be slightly bell-mouthed, in
order that the rivet heads may be within such bell-mouths, and be
made flush with the socket at the outer surfaces, as is shown by the
drawing. Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and
the manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that
the form of the socket which receives the handle, and is affixed to
the end of the blade of a table knife, may be varied without departing
from my Invention; but what I claim is the manufacture of table
knives with sockets fixed thereto, to receive and have fixed therein the
handles as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Smith, have hereunto.set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JOSHUA SMITH. (L.S.)
Witness, JOHN DERBY.