IMPROVEMENTS IN KNIFE CLEANING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Mortimer Job, of the City of London,
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KNIFE CLEANING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Mortimer Job
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 31st March 1873.
I, ALFRED MORTIMER JOB, of the City of London, Merchant, do
5 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
KNIFE CLEANING BOARDS, AND IN PARTS TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION THERE-
WITH," to be as follows
My Invention relates to the knife boards employed in the cleaning
of table and other knives, and has for its object to render such boards
more effective, and also to facilitate their use.
i Tumaution into affect T

page_text: or fabric composed of hair, or of woolen, or vegetable, or silk fibre, or
cover the above materials with kamptulicon.
In some or in all cases I may saturate this fabric or material with tar
or with size.
The knife board so formed is in some cases provided with a shallow 5
tray or trough of a size suitable to the said board. The polishing
powder is to be placed in the said tray, and the board to be placed
therein with one of its coated or covered sides downwards, and the said
board may then be used in the ordinary manner.
Whenever desirable the board is to be reversed, that is to say, it is 1
to be placed with the surface which has last been used downwards.
The surface which is then uppermost will have taken up a supply of
polishing powder from the tray, and the board is thus immediately ready
for use.
The said tray may also be employed in connection with a board 1
covered on one or both sides with any suitable or ordinary substance or
material.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Alfred
Mortimer Job in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th October
1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
MORTIMER JOB, of the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, 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 lawfully 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.

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IN KNIFE CLEANING BOARDS, AND IN PARTS TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH," upon the condition, (amongst others), that I, the said Alfred
Mortimer Job, executors or administrators, 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
on or before the Fourteenth day of October One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to
say:―
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My Invention relates to the knife boards employed in the cleaning
of table and other knives, and has for its object to render such boards
more effective, and also to facilitate their use.
When carrying my said Invention into effect I cover or coat one side,
or preferably both sides, of a suitable board or foundation with a felt
or fabric composed of hair, or of woolen, or vegetable, or silk fibre, or
cover the above materials with kamptulicon.
The knife board so formed is in some cases provided with a shallow.
tray or trough of a size suitable to the said board. The polishing
powder is to be placed in the said tray, and the board to be placed
therein with one of its coated or covered sides downwards, and the said
board may then be used in the ordinary manner..
Whenever desirable the board is to be reversed, that is to say, it is
to be placed with the surface which has last been used downwards.
The surface which is then uppermost will have taken up a supply of
polishing powder from the tray, and the board is thus immediately ready
▸ for use again.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I will
now refer to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1
represents a side or edge view of short knife board provided with a
tray which is represented in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the said
5 board.
In the said Figures a is the foundation board; b, b, is the felt with
which both sides of the said board are covered; and c is the shallow

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