An Improved Cheese Cutter.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cheese Cutter.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE DRAKE of 132 Bevan Street in the Borough of
Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk England, Grocer and Provision Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Improvement relating to the cutting of cheese and the like.
That it consists of a dove-tailed frame of white-wood about 16 inches by 14
by 2, the top being of the same or similar material and is made up of two
pieces 16 x 7 × leaving a small aperture in the centre for the purpose of
allowing the wire or cutter to pass up and down.
The cutting apparatus is composed of a length of fine steel wire well secured to
the frame inside by means of a strong hook ring and eye so arranged as to allow
the wire to be shortened or lengthened at will. The wire then passes through the
aperture to the top side and is held in position by means of a specially made hook.
The handle attached to the outer end of the wire is specially constructed and well
made principally of box-wood in two parts the meeting ends being bound by wide
rings of brass drawn tightly together by means of a dowel screw the end of the
wire is bent so as to form an acute angle and is inserted into a small hole in one of
the inside ends of the handle and is held firmly in position by means of the two ends
being screwed tightly together.
To the inside end of the wire is attached a small strong ring of iron secured to
the upper inside end of the frame by means of an ordinary screw hook and stretches
diagonally across the inside and passes through a screw ring or eye directly
underneath the aperture it then stretches straight across the frame to the upper
end again through the aperture to the specially made hook afore mentioned the
ring on the end of the wire inside not being allowed to pass through the screw ring
thereby holds the wire in position when being used at full length.
The whole complete goes to form the invention in respect of which a Patent is
applied for.
Dated this 22nd day of Febru 1902
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cheese Cutter.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE DRAKE of 132 Bevan Street in the Borough of
Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk England, Grocer and Provision Merchant 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:-
Improvement relating to the cutting of cheese and the like.
The invention consists of an oblong stand A. A' B. B' Fig. 2 of convenient
size made of suitable material, the frame work being well fitted together and
covered by two pieces of wood or other material about half inch in thickness,
having a narrow slit C. Fig. 2 down the centre from H to H¹ for the purpose of
allowing the cutting wire to pass up and down, the edges of slit and corners of
stand being protected by metal if required.
A piece of thin steel wire of convenient length, is affixed by a ring F, to a hook E
placed inside the frame on the upper end B Fig. 1. about one eighth the distance
from the side A. This wire passes through a screw ring G screwed into the top,
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page_text: on the inside of the frame and situate immediately in front of the block D Fig. 1.
and a little to the left of the slit C, it then passes round the block D. and through
the slit C. to the outside at H1, Fig. 2.
The wire is there held in position, when not in use, by a specially made hook I.
Fig. 2.
To the outside end of the wire is attached a handle J. Fig. 3 made principally of
hard wood in two parts, the meeting ends being bound by metal; a small hole K
is made in one end of one part into which the end of the wire is inserted; the two
parts of the handle are then screwed tightly together by means of a dowel screw
which holds the wire firmly in position.
The wire can be lengthened by simply detaching the ring F from the hook E
and allowing it to run through to the screw ring G. Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
The apparatus herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
WM. G. DRAKE..