Improvements in Pocket Knives and similar Instruments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Knives and similar Instruments.
I, WALTER WILLIAM PELLETT of 62 High Holborn in the County of
Middlesex, Cutler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to pocket knives, and to similar articles having instruments
or blades closing or folding in the manner of a pocket knife blade.
As at present constructed the blades or instruments in these have a nick or
groove thereon to enable the blade to be raised by the thumb or finger nail.
In place of this nick or groove I propose to place on the back of the blade a
projection, knob, or short bar, which will enable the blade to be more readily
grasped by the fingers, the sides of the handle being preferably cut away to allow
the projection to seat therein. The projection may be formed so as to engage with
a ridge or groove in the back of the blade and be loose thereon, so that it can be
placed on the blade before the latter is inserted in the handle and remain loose
thereon, when it will fall back out of the way when the blade is opened, and held
in an erect position.
Dated this 22d day of March 1892.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Knives and similar Instruments.
1, WALTER WILLIAM PELLETT of 62 High Holborn in the County of
Middlesex, Cutler, 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:-
My invention relates to pocket knives, and to similar articles having instruments
tools or blades closing or folding in the manner of a pocket knife blade.
As at present constructed the blades or instruments in these have a nick or
groove thereon to enable them to be raised by the thumb or finger nail.
In place of this nick or groove place on the back of the blade a projection,
knob, or short bar which enables the blade to be more readily grasped by the
fingers, the sides of the handle being preferably cut away to allow the projection
to seat therein.
To clearly explain my invention reference is made to the accompanying drawing
in which is shewn a two bladed pocket knife constructed according to one form of
my invention and in which a a are the knobs or projections applied to the blades
and bb the cut away portions of the knife handle in which the projections seat.
The knobs a may be of metal or other suitable material and are affixed to the back
of the blade, tool or the like in any convenient way. Instead of the knobs being
fixed to the blade tool or the like they may be formed so as to engage with a ridge
or ridges or a groove or grooves in the back of sane such as the groove formed for
the thumb nail in some classes of knives and be loose thereon so that when the
blade or the like is opened and held upright or approximately so the knob will fall
back so as to be out of the way.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In pocket knives and similar instruments a knob or projection carried by the
blade, tool, or the like substantially as shown and for the purpose described.
2. The improvements in pocket knives and similar instruments substantially as
described.
Dated this 7th day of December 1892.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.