Improvements in Cheese Cutting Wire Handles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
Improvements in Cheese Cutting Wire Handles.
RICHARD LORD and ARTHUR ROBERT MILLER, Gentlemen, of 17, High Street,
Swindon, in the County of Wilts, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved method of securing cheese cutting wires
in their handles, so that the wire can be readily detached from the handle, or the
connection be again readily made.
In carrying out the invention we construct the handle in two parts, and arranged
to be connected together by a male and female screwed joint, the male portion of
the screwed joint has a hole passing through it, a slot or slots cut lengthwise
through the screwed portion so as to admit of the cheese cutting wire passing down
the slot. The cheese cutting wire has a loop or similar form on the end, made by
curling the end of the wire by an ordinary round or flat nose pliers, or by the fingers
of the person who is, or intends, to use the cheese cutting wires in their handles.
In placing the wire so as to be secured on the handle, the loop passes into the tube
or hollow portion of the connecting tube of the handle, and the other part down
the slot. The two portions of the handle are then screwed up together, and the
wire kept from being pulled out of the handle by the loop or similar part on the
end bearing against the inner portion or face of the slot. In case a plain loop
is only formed with the side of the loop parallel with the wire, the loop may
possibly slip through the slot. It would then be caught by bearing against the
inner face of the female portion of the handle.
In the accompanying drawings are shewn methods of carrying out this, our,
invention.
The first method of construction shewn is illustrated by the elevation of the
handle in Fig. 2, and the end elevations Figs. 1 & 3 in which the handle is made
from two pieces of tubing, a, and, b, connected together by a smaller piece of
tubing, c; the cheese cutting wire, f, is shewn protruding from the joint of the
tubes, a, and, b, and is held in the connecting tube by the loop g. In Fig. 5
is shewn a section of Fig. 2 taken on the line B, B, the male & female portions
of the handle being made of tubing, as herein before described, internally screw
threaded so that they can be connected by the externally screw threaded tube, c;
the tube, c, has a right and left handed screw thread cut thereon, the portions
of the tube, a, and, b, forming the handle being threaded to coincide with the
aforesaid connecting tube, c, this is essential so as to prevent the male portion from
being disconnected from the connecting tube, when it is desirable to remove the
female portion to change the wire; the same result may be arrived at by solder-
ing, brazing or otherwise securing the connecting tube to the male portion of
the handle. The tube, c, have the slots or slot, d, cut therein so that the wire
is passed down the slot, the loop, g, on the end thereof passes down the hole of
the tube, this loop, g, will then on any tension being put on the wire bear against
the inner face of the tube, c, and thus prevent it from being drawn out of the

page_text: handle, as shewn in Fig. 6; when the two parts of the handle are connected
together by their screw threads, it would be evident that in case the loop on the end
of the wire should slip through the slot, d, it would then take its bearing against
the internal face or surface of the female portion, b, of the handle, Fig. 4 is an end
elevation of Fig. 5.
In Fig. 14 is shewn an elevation of the same arrangement as Fig. 2, the two
portions of the handle are shewn partly unscrewed, Fig. 13 is an end elevation
of same Fig. 11 a section of same taken on line, E, E of Fig. 13, Figs. 10 & 12
are end elevations of same; shewing each portion of the handle a', b₁ as made from
solid metal with the connecting piece, c, of the male portion screw threaded.
The wire is secured in the same manner as hereinbefore described.
In Fig. 8 is shewn a slight modification wherein a slot, e, is cut so that the
loop on the end of the wire may be passed into the hollow portion of the connecting
piece or tube without the necessity of wholly disconnecting the portions of the
handle, as would be the case in the other methods shewn. The loop on the end
of the wire would take its bearing as hereinbefore described. In adopting this
or the other methods of construction, I sometimes slightly expand or twist the
end of the connecting portion, c, so that it would have a tendency to slightly grip
the female portion of the handle and have a tendency also to lock the portions
together. It should be understood that the twisting or. expansion of the con-
necting portion should not be attempted if a brittle cast metal is used.
On the male portion of the handle, on the abutting face thereof, a slight groove
is some times made so that the faces of the portions of the handles would meet
as shewn in the drawings and would not then grip the wire but this groove is
not absolutely necessary as the wire could be gripped between the abutting faces
in addition to the method of securing it as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is; :-
1. The hereinabove described improvements, in cheese cutting wire handles,
consisting of a hollow slotted connecting piece or tube for holding the wire by
the loop, (on the end thereon) bearing against the inside of the connecting tube,
or against the inner edge of the female portion of the handle, substantially as
herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings and for the purpose
specified.
2. In cheese cutting wire handles as specified in Claim 1, a slot cut in the
connecting portion of the handle so as to enable the loop at the end of the wire
to be passed into the connecting portion of the handle, without the necessity of
wholly disconnecting the portions of the handle substantially as described with
reference to Figs, 8 & 9 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved cheese cutting wire handles substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1898.
RICHARD LORD.
ARTHUR ROBERT MILLER.