Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 11th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
I WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS of No. 13 Cosmo Place Russell Square in the County
of Middlesex Book Keeper do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
I claim for my invention the novelty of being able to score pork or any other meat
by fitting any number of knives into a block or piece of wood made of any thickness
or shape so that several incisions are made at one and the same time according to the
number of knives fitted into the block of wood or other material-the knives are
screwed together and the under or lower part of the scorer will slope from the handle
of the scorer towards the knives and thus cause the knives to cut less deep into the
meat as may be desired The scorer can be made to be taken to pieces in order to
replace any knife that may be broken.

page_text: I WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS of 13 Cosmo Place Queen Square Bloomsbury in the
County of Middlesex Book-keeper 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 :-
I take a small block or piece of Mahogany, Box or other hard wood, and work it up
into an oblong shape of three or four inches by two or three inches with a handle
(similar to the frame of an ordinary brush for the head) the Mahogany Box, or other
wood being three quarters of an inch thick at one end and sloping towards the handle
to one inch I then make three four or any other number of incisions or grooves
near the end of the piece of mahogany any distance apart sufficiently wide to take a
small steel blade or knife each blade or knife being about an inch in length-I then drive
each blade or knife into the incisions or grooves so that each blade or knife is driven
through to the under side of the piece of mahogany or other wood. The points of
the blades or knives thus shewing in a straight even line to half or three quarters of
an inch and forming a row of knives at equal distances apart as shewn in
Figure 1 a, a, a, a. When the knives are all driven in I screw a thin piece of
mahogany, Box or other wood as a top plate on the top side by which means the
knives are kept firmly in the incisions or grooves as shewn in Figure 2.
I also claim as my invention the cutting of skins of thin leather or cardboard or
other similar substances into strips. I place a skin of leather or sheet of cardboard
upon a flat wooden surface-then take the scorer in the right hand and press the
points of the blades clean through the leather or cardboard and draw the blades
straight down thus cutting the same into strips of any size according to the number
of blades inserted in the mahogany or other hard wood.
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. The novelty of an appliance for Scoring Pork or other meat in regular and
straight lines at equal distances apart at one time-instead of the old method of scoring
with a single ordinary knife in irregular and crooked lines one at a time.
2. The novelty of cutting thin leather or cardboard or any similar substance into
strips in regular and straight lines wide or narrow as may be desired with any number
of knives.
This 11th dove of Ianuary 1800
WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS,
13, Cosmo Place, Bloomsbury, W.C.