Year: 1888

page_text: I, WILLIAM BARKER HATFIELD of Livingstone Road, Sheffield in the County of
York, Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of Cutlery and
particularly to the handles of table cutlery.
The object of the invention is to improve the appearance, without increasing the
cost of table cutlery in which the blades or other like parts, are forged solid with the
handles.
In such articles if the handles are made with a central opening for the purpose of
dispensing with objectionable weight of metal, a central ridge of waste metal or "fash"
is usually produced, to cut off which, and bring the uneven surface to a proper finish
considerable time is required which increases the cost
My invention consists in leaving the opening made through the handle in its rough
unfinished state and in enclosing or covering the rough central portion, with (prefer-
ably) another metal of a more malleable or tractable nature.
According to one method of carrying out my invention I cast (for example) a piece
of white metal of such a configuration that it can be placed loosely in the hollow
opening of the handle which it roughly resembles and by the application of force,
applied to both sides by means of dies can be compressed and caused to spread laterally
so as to enclose and firmly grip the central fash, and to receive any ornamental design
that may be cut upon the face of the dies.
Or I may fill up or partly fill up the opening by casting the softer or more easily
worked metal in situ," and finishing it by ordinary means.
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Or I may stamp or otherwise produce suitable plain or ornamental side plates or
scales corresponding with the outline of the said opening and solder or otherwise
secure them, so as to cover up the said opening and afterwards finish the handle by
silver plating or by other desired means.
Dated the 4th day of June 1888.
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, WILLIAM BARKER HATFIELD of Livingstone Road, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manager 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 :-
lhus invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of Cutlery and more
particularly to the handles of Table Cutlery, the object being to improve the appearance,
without increasing the cost of table cutlery in which the blades or other analogous
parts are forged solid with their handles.
Usually such handles are made with a central opening in order to reduce the weight
of the article, and in the process adopted to accomplish this, a "fash" or central ridge
of thin ragged metal is produced, and to cut off this and bring the uneven surface to
a proper finish considerable time is required, which materially increases the cost of this
class of cutlery.
The annexed sheet of drawings illustrates my invention, and like letters of reference
indicate like parts in any of the figures
Fig 1, reprosents the handle of a knife made out of the same continuous piece of
steel as the blade, and is formed on each side with a concave recess A, and an aperture
or central opening B, which is more or less rough on the edges; the concave surface
is also rough-and-being compressed between tools, would of necessity require consider-
ablo time and labour to produce a finished appearance.
According to my invention I leave the unfinished parts A, on both sides of the
handle, and the edge of the central opening B, seen in Fig. 1, and also in the sectional
view shown in Fig. 2, just as they leave the tools in which they are formed.
According to one method, I place the handle so formed in a mould, and I cast a
shape of white metal, or other suitable metal in both concavities the two shapes being
connected by the molten metal passing through the central opening B
I then finish the softer metal by stamping it any desired ornamental design such is
hown in Fig. 3, which represents the finished knite handle, C being the white metal
According to another method I may leave the centre hole of such a shape, that a
piece of soft metal may be placed in position and by the application of uechanical
force the soft metal may be compressed between tools or dies so as to fill up the opening
and any other spaces, and to be spread laterally, receiving any design cut upon the
dies, and being firmly attached to the handle.
For some purposes I may prepare plain or ornamental scales of hard thin metal, and
secure them to the handle by soidering, or by other like means
Handles constructed according to my invention may be finished by electroplating or
by any other suitable process.

page_text: 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 :-
1-The improvements in the construction of handles for cutlery, substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown, and for the purpose specified.
2-In solid handled cutlery, having concave recesses or other like openings such as
hereinhefore described, attaching faces or covering pieces of softer metal, in the
manner and for the purpose specified.
Dated the 5th day of March 1889.
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Bank Buildings,
George Street, Sheffield,
Agent for the Applicant.