Year: 1898

page_text: I, ELIZABETH BALLANTYNE SMALL or SIBBALD, residing at 7, Great George Street,
Hillhead, in the County of the City of Glasgow, North Britain, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention relates to an egg-cutter and egg-cup, the cutter being combined
with the cup and thus forming, in combination, an article for domestic and other
uses or purposes.
My combination egg-cutter and egg-cup are composed of an invertible egg-cup
attached or fixed to which there is a movable and easily adjustable metallic arm with
dagger or lancet-blade fixed or screwed on, thereto. The use of my combination
cutter and cup is to slice off one of the ends of an egg in the bottom portion, and,
that done, the upper portion of cup is used as an ordinary egg-cup the bottom cup or
portion thereof acting as a stand therefor.
The top or sharp point of the egg as well as the bottom of same can be cut by my
adjustable lancet-blade. Assuming that the top and not the bottom of the egg is to
be cut, I place the top of the egg into the bottom portion of the cup and the lancet-
arm by reason of its flexibility is rendered self-adjustable, permitting the egg-top to
securely rest in the recess, after which a circular movement preferably from left to
right slices off the top of the shell after which the egg is placed, bottom down, in the
top portion of the egg cup. These egg-cups can be made of wood but are preferably
made of aluminium or of any other suitable metal. They can also be made in skeleton
with three or more legs for the bottom portion and with three or more arms for the
top portion.
In order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying same
into practice may be understood, I have hereunto appended one sheet of drawings in
which the same letters and numerals are used to designate the respective parts in all
the figures where shewn.
Figure 1 is an erection sectional view of an invertible egg-cup.
Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1, shewing the application of my adjustable lancet-arm
and lancet in combination with said invertible egg-cup.
Fig. 3 is the same as Fig. 2 shewing modification in the action of lancet-arm, there
being no slot A5, the blade, D, being adjustable only at the bottom. The dotted lines
shew the lateral action of the lancet-arm.
Fig. 4 is an erection front view of Figs. 2 and 5 shewing the outside of our com-
bination egg-cutter and cup.

page_text: Fig. 5 is an erection view same as Fig. 2 shewing by dotted lines the action of the
lancet-arms up and down instead of from left to right, in contradistinction to that as
shewn in Fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is a view of the lancet-arın as seen in Figs. 2 and 5.
Fig. 7 is a view of the lancet-arm as seen in Fig. 4.
In Figure 1 there is given a sectional view of a convertible egg-cup with my
lancet-blade tablet attached which, in combination with the other parts, forms the
basis of my invention.
The cup is divided into top and bottom portions, the dagger-slot being in the
latter. T is the top portion of the egg-cup and B, the bottom portion of saine. I,
for descriptive purposes, is herein called the left-hand of the egg-cup while, R, for the
same reason is, herein, called the right-hand side of same. T is the lancet-blade
tablet and A3, the dagger-slot made, therein D is the dagger unattached to lancet-
arm.
Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1 shewing application of lancet-arm. D is the dagger
or lancet-blade. This blade is made of the finest tempered steel and may be either
double-edged or single-edged but is preferably made with one edge and dagger-shaped
or lancet-pointed, the sharp edge being so placed that the circle-cut is made from left
to right though, of course, the blade can also be placed so as to give a circle-cut from
right to left as exigency demands. A is the arm of lancet or lancet-arm on to which
is screwed, or otherwise fixed, the lancet-blade or dagger.
This arm is made of the finest tempered steel and is rendered perfectly pliable
from the slot, sufficiently far down, as to be permissive of yield with the slightest
pressure on the insertion of the egg-end to be cut. A¹ is a screw nail, or nail, upon
which the lancet-arm is pivoted. A is a nut or other suitable fixture holding the
lancet-arm on to the tablet. This nut can either be an ordinary hexagon but is
preferably a "bee's-wing nut as technically or commercially known. A³ is the
dagger-slot or aperture through which the dagger or lancet-blade passes, the pro-
truding points of which makes an incissive cut in the egg-shell.
"
In making this incission deep or light according to the adjustment of the blade the
bottom portion, with egg incerted, is preferably held in the left-hand and with the
right-hand one complete circular cut is made by moving the cup around from left to
right or from right to left as the case may be all as already specifically described.
T is the top of the egg-cup; B, bottom of same; L, left-hand side and R, right-
hand side of egg-cup, while T is the lancet-blade tablet.
Fig. 3 shews a modification in the action of lancet-arm.
T is the top of egg-cup with B, bottom of same. L is left-hand side and R,
right-hand side of same; D, the dagger or lancet-blade; A', the lancet-arm screw;
A, the lancet-arm; A³, the dagger-slot; T', the lancet-blade tablet.
Fig. 4 shews the outside of cutter and cup. Herein the lancet-arm and lance as
shewn in Fig. 7 is shewn in combination with invertible egg-cup. T is the tablet
upon which the lancet-arm rests and through which the lancet-blade passes. In this
tablet as well as in the wall of B, the slot, A³, is made and thus the tablet is rendered
adjustable whereby the protrusion of the lancet-blade is increased or diminished, at
will, thus making the incission in the egg-shell deep or shallow as may be desired.
To accomplish this, the lancet-tablet is wedged at the bottom or other con-
venient portion, thereof.
Rendered adjustable at the bottom, I use a wedge moved up and down by some
well known mechanical means but preferably by means of a regulable screw.
Another means of regulating the incissive cut of the lancet is by indiarubber buffers
screwed on or otherwise fixed. T is the egg-cup top with, B, the bottom of same
and, R, the right-hand side of cup which, herein, is the only side shewn and which is
designated the right-band side solely for descriptive purposes all as already specifically
described in Fig. 1. A² is the lancet-arm nut; D, the dagger and A5 is the
adjustable slot in the lancet-arm while A is the lancet-arm and A3, the dagger slot.
Fig. 5 shews the action of the lancet-arm fitted with the flexible, instead of rigid,

page_text: arm as shewn in Figs. 6 and 7 and thus in contradistinction to that shewn in Fig. 3
the arm of which being rigid and movable from left to right. T is the egg-cup top
with B the egg-cup bottom. L is the left-hand side of egg-cup while R is the
right-hand side of same.
D is the lancet-blade; A¹, the screw of lancet-arm; A2, the lancet-arın nut;
A3, the dagger-slot and T', the lancet-blade tablet while A is the lancet-arm.
Fig. 6 is a side view of the lancet-arm with blade. A is the thread or worm at
the bottom of the lancet-arm extending from the tip to a convenient distance up said
arm. On this arm the dagger is screwed or otherwise fixed. Two adjustments to
said dagger can be made, one being at A' while the other can be similtaneously
made at A whereby the slice to be taken off the egg-top can be either increased or
diminished, at will. A is the lancet-arm; A', the lancet-arm screw; A2, the lancet-
arm nut and D, the dagger.
Fig. 7 is a front view of the laneet-arm with blade. A is the slot made in the top
or flexile portion of the lancet-arm through which the screw, A¹, passes and thereby
the arm is rendered immovably fixed (excepting, of course, the flexibility in the arm)
by means of the nut, A2. It will now be seen that two adjustments, increasing or
diminishing the egg-top slice, can be effected, on the lancet-arm, one at A+ and the
other at A5 all as already described in Fig. 6 while another adjustment increasing or
diminishing the depth of the incission in the egg-shell as already described in Fig. 4
is the third adjustment obtainable in my egg-cutter in combination with invertible
egg-cup all as already specifically described. A is the lancet-arm; A2, the lancet-arm
nut; A, the thread or worm of lancet-arm while D is the dagger or lancet-
blade.
The adjustment of the lancet-blade tablet, T, already described in Fig. 4 and
also in this figure is as already stated the third adjustment belonging to my
combination egg-cutter and egg-cup. This adjustment can be effected by means of
wedge adjustments or by rubber buffers but is preferably done by means of a screw
nail and nut similar to the screw-nail, A¹, of lancet-arm and the lancet-arm nut, A²,
which, in this case, are placed at the bottom and conveniently between the dagger-
slot, A³, and the very bottom of the tablet, T¹, and in the same manner as A¹ and A2
but, with this distinction, the nut is, in this case, placed between the wall, B, of
egg-cup and the adjustable tablet, T¹, and, thus, to render the incissive cut light,
the tablet, T, is driven outwards by screwing the nut out, and, conversely, the
incissive cut is rendered deep by screwing the nut in, and, therewith, the adjustable
tablet. The said tablet is perforated to receive the screw nail in the same manner as
it is to receive the nail, A¹, at the top and, as a further safe-guard, a pair of nuts
may be used, one nut as already stated between the wall of the egg-cup and
on the inner side of the adjustable tablet, while the other nut can be placed on the
outer side of said adjustable tablet and, thus, the incissive cut can be regulated to
the minimum or to the maximum as desired.
Either of the two adjustments, or both similtaneously can be effected at A and
at A³ on the lancet-arm whereby a larger or a lesser slice of the egg-end can be taken
off which is, herein, called the slice-cut adjustment and by shifting the adjustable
tablet, T, the depth or shallowness of cut is, in like manner, obtained in my incissive-
cut adjustment.
As a modification of my knife or daggar we also use a circular cutter or cutters,
or, in other words, either one or two circular-knives or wheel-shaped cutters, or, one
spur-wheel by itself, or, in conjunction with one wheel-shaped knife or circular
cutter. In the case of using one wheel-shaped cutter instead of the dagger, I obtain
a disc and bore it in the centre, sharpen the periphery and have it put on to the arm
or lancet-arin with a nut on either side of it to prevent it from shifting either up or
down. Instead of this wheel-shaped cutter, I use another kind of wheel with a
jagged or indented periphery which is, herein, called the spur-wheel, it resembling
the wheel of an ordinary spur having prickles in like manner and with a modification
of these spikes or jags it has indentations and thus resembling a circular saw in
minature.

page_text: In using the spur wheel alone, the indentations are, with circular motion of my
combined cutter, made all around the top (or bottom) of the egg-shell, and thus
rendering it easier to be cut by means of a table-knife. But, again, this spur wheel
for first indentation is, with another arrangement, followed by a disc with sharpened
periphery as already stated and coming in the wake of the spur-wheel effectually
severs the top (or bottom) as the case may be, and, thus forming, in combination, all
as already specifically described, an egg-opener or egg-cutter in combination with an
invertible egg-cup.
DIECIFICATION,
A Combined Egg-opener and Egg-cup for Domestic and other
Purposes.
ELIZABETH BALLANTYNE SMALL or SIBBALD, of 7, Great George Street, Hillhead, in
the City of the County of Glasgow, 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:-
The said invention relates to an egg-cutter and egg-cup, the cutter, otherwise
known herein as the dagger or lancet-blade being combined with the cup and thus
forming in combination an article for domestic and other purposes. My combination
egg-cutter and egg-cup are composed of an invertible egg-cup attached to which is
a movable adjustable metallic arm with dagger or lancet-blade affixed, thereto.
The use of my combination cutter and cup is to slice off one of the ends of the
egg (töp or bottom as the case may be) and, that done, the upper portion of the
egg-cup is used as an ordinary egg-cup for the reception of the top or bottom portion
of the egg as the case may be while the bottom portion of said egg-cup is utilized
as a stand or pedestal. Either end of the egg, that is to say, the top or bottom can
be cut by means of my adjustable lancet-blade.
Assuming the top portion of the egg to be cut, I place that portion into the
bottom of the cup and the lancet-arm by reason of its flexibility is rendered self-
adjustable permitting the egg-top to securely rest in the recess, after which the
circular movement preferably from left to right slices off the top of the egg-shell
after which the egg with its top slice taken off is of course placed bottom down in
the top portion of the egg-cup.
These egg-cups can be made of wood but are preferably made of aluminium or of
some other suitable metal and embellished. They can also be made in skeleton with
three or more legs forming the bottom portion and with three or more arms forming
the top portion.
In order that my invention and the manner of performing or carrying same into
practice may be understood, have, hereunto, appended one sheet of drawings in
which the same letters and numerals are used to designate the respective parts in
all the Figs. where shewn.
Fig. 1 is an elevation front view of my combination egg-cutter and cup.
Fig. 2 is an erection side view of Fig. 1 shewing left and right sides of egg-
cutter and cup.
Fig. 3 is an erection side view of egg-cutter and cup shewing modification in

page_text: the action of the fancet-arm there being no slot, A³, the blade, D, being adjustable
only at the bottom.
The dotted lines shew the lateral action of the lancet-arm.
Fig. 4 is the right-hand side of Fig. 2 shewing adjustment of the lancet-blade
5 tablet.
Fig. 5 is a side view of the lancet-arm with adjustable dagger as shewn in Figs. 2.
and 4.
Fig. 6 is a front view of the lancet-arm with adjustable dagger as shewn in
Fig. 1.
Fig. 7 is the same as Fig. 5 but with permanently fixed dagger.
Fig. 8 is the same as Fig. 6 but with permanently fixed dagger.
The descriptive account is as follows:-
Fig. 1 is an erection front view of my combination egg-cutter and cup.
R is the right-hand side of the egg-cup as shewn in Fig. 2. B is the bottom
5 portion of egg-cup or egg-cup bottom. T is the top portion of egg-cup or egg-cup.
top. D is the dagger or lancet-blade; T¹, the lancet-blade tablet upon which the
lancet-arm rests and through which the lancet-blade passes; A2, the nut or other
suitable fixture holding the lancet-arm on; A³, the dagger-slot made in the lancet-
blade tablet; A5, the slot made in the top or flexile portion of the lancet-arm through
which the screw, A¹, passes and thereby the arm is rendered immovably fixed
(excepting of course the inherent flexibility in the arm) by means of nut, A².
Fig. 2 is an erection side view of Fig. 1 shewing left and right sides of egg-cutter
and cup.
T is the egg-cup top; T", the lancet-blade tablet; B, egg-cup bottom; L, left-
hand side of egg-cup; R, right-hand side of egg-cup; D, dagger or lancet-blade ;
A, lancet-arm; A¹, lancet-arm screw-nail; A2, lancet-arm-nut; A³, dagger-slot.
Fig. 3 is an erection side view of egg-cutter and cup shewing modification in the
action of the lancet-arm there being no slot, A5, the blade, D, being adjustable only
at the bottom.
The dotted lines shew the lateral action of the lancet-arm.
Tis the egg-cup top; B, the egg-cup bottom; T', lancet-blade tablet; L, left-
hand side of the egg-cup; R, right-hand side of the egg-cup; D, dagger; A, laneet-
arm; A¹, lancet-arm screw-nail; A³, dagger-slot.
Fig. 4 is the right-hand side of Fig. 2 shewing adjustment of the lancet-blade
tablet.
A is the screw-nail adjusting T¹, lancet-blade tablet. This screw-nail is fitted
with bee's-wing catch and by screwing one way or the other adjusts the lancet-blade
tablet. This is the third adjustment, the other two adjustments being A* as shewn
in Figs. 5 and 6 and A5 as shewn in Figs. 6 and 8.
T is the egg-cup top; B, the egg-cup bottom; T', the lancet-blade tablet; R, the
right-hand side of the egg-cup; D, dagger; A, lancet-arm; A¹, lancet-arm screw-
nail; A2, lancet-arm-nut; A³, dagger-slot.
The tablet is perforated to receive the screw-nail, A6, in the same manner as it is
to receive the screw-nail, A¹, at the top and as a further safeguard a pair of nuts may
be used as already stated between the wall of the egg-cup and the inner side of the
adjustable tablet wall, the other nut can be placed on the outer side of the adjustable
tablet and thus the incissive cut can be regulated to the minimum as desired.
Either of the two adjustments or both similtaneously can be effected at A4 on the
lancet-arm whereby a larger or lesser slice of the egg can be taken off which is
herein called the slice adjustment and by the shifting of the adjustable tablet, T",
by means of A* the depth or shallowness of the cut is in like manner obtained in my
incissive-cut-adjustment. A is herein known as the third adjustment as already
stated.
Fig. 5 is a side view of the lancet-arm with adjustable dagger as shewn in Figs. 2
and 4.
A is the lancet-arm; A¹, the lancet-arm screw-nail; A², lancet-arm-nut; A*, the

page_text: thread or worm at the bottom of the lancet-arm extending from the point to a
convenient distance up the said arm and which is, herein, known as the first adjust-
ment. D is the dagger.
Fig. 6 is a front view of the lancet-arm with adjustable dagger as shewn
in Fig. 1.
As is a slot made in the top or flexile portion of the lancet-arm through which
the screw,
A¹, passes and thereby the arm is rendered immovably fixed (excepting
of course the inherent flexibility in the arm) by means of nut, A². A5 is, herein,
known as the second adjustment. A is the lancet-arm; A, the lancet-arm-nut;
A', the thread or worm at the bottom of the lancet-arm extending from the point
to a convenient distance up said arm and which is known herein as the first adjust-
ment, as already stated. D) is the dagger.
Fig. 7 is the same as Fig. 5 but with permanently fixed dagger.
A is the lancet-arm; A¹, the lancet-arm screw-nail; A2, the lancet-arm-nut; D¹,
the permanently fixed dagger or lancet-blade permanently fixed; D2, the bulb on
bottom of A keeping dagger permanently fixed.
Fig. 8 is the same as Fig. 6 but with permanently fixed dagger.
A is the lancet-arm; A2, the lancet-arm-nut; A5, the slot made in the top or
flexile portion of the lancet-arm. D¹ is the permanently fixed dagger or lancet-blade
permanently fixed. D2 is the bulb on bottom of A keeping dagger permanently
fixed.
As a modification of dagger, D, a spur-wheel can be substituted therefor and in
which case said spur-wheel with saw-like indentations or little spikes revolves in the
self-same manner as the spur-wheel of an ordinary spur cutting by means of said
indentations the egg-shell.
As already stated, the egg-cup when finished is embellished in various ways. Made
in aluminum, it is silver-plated, and, made in other hard metals, it can either be
silver-plated or enamelled, in various colours.
The letter, R, is not a member but, for descriptive purposes, simply means the
right-hand side of the egg-cup contra-distinguishing it from L, which is the left-hand
side of the egg-cup, and, in Fig. 1, it will be seen that R is shewn facing to the front
instead of to the right (vid. Figs. 6 and 8). Figs. 2, 3, and 4 shew R at the right-
hand side and in Figs. 5 and 7, D, or its equivalent D¹, is correspondingly shewn.
It will thus be seen that R is the right-hand side of the egg-cup; A is the lancet-arm
whereon there is fixed D, the dagger or lancet-blade while D¹ is shewn in Figs. 7 and
8 as the permanently-fixed dagger or lancet-blade permanently fixed. This per-
manently-fixed dagger or lancet-blade can be made in one piece with A, the lancet-
the two being composed of one piece of ribbon-steel.
arm,
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 :-
First The method of manufacturing or constructing an egg-cup and egg-cutter
in combination, therewith.
Second-The lancet-blade in combination with egg-cup all as, herein, described in
reference to and shewn in Fig. 3.
Third: The lancet-blade as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6 in combination with egg-cup,
as herein described in reference to and shewn in said combination in Figs. 1, 2
and 4 hereof.
:
Fourth The lancet-blade, as shewn in Figs. 7 and 8, in combination with egg-
cup, as per third claim, hereof.
Fifth-The screw-nail, A, adjusting T₁, lancet-blade tablet, as herein described
in reference to and shewn in Fig. 4, hereof.
:-
Sixth The lancet-blade tablet, T¹, as shewn in Fig. 3, adjusted by means of
screw-nail, A6, as per 5th claim, hereof.
Seventh: A combination egg-cup and egg-cutter with adjustment consisting

page_text: of A', a thread or worin at the bottom of the lancet-arm, as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6,
and with second adjustment consisting of A³, a slot in the top or flexile portion of
the lancet-arm, as shewn in Figs. 6 and 8, and with third adjustment consisting
of A, a screw-nail, as shewn in Fig. 4, all as, herein, described in reference to and
shewn in the accompanying drawings.