An Improvement in or applicable to Table Knives and Forks and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATIONN.
An Improvement in or applicable to Table Knives and Forks and
the like.
I, GARDINER FREDERIC GUYON, Colonel Commanding Royal Fusiliers, now
stationed at Belfast, Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to
be as follows :-
This invention relates to an improvement in or applicable to dessert, fish and
other table knives and forks of that class in which the blade of the knife or the
prongs of the fork is or are formed with a tang which is let into the handle or
holding part of the article, the object of the improvement being to secure such
parts of the article together in an improved manner which will avoid the loosening
or separation of the parts, which is a common occurrence with such articles the
parts of which are cemented, shellacked or otherwise secured together as
ordinarily.
To this end, the Invention consists in forming the knife-blade or fork-prongs
with an elongated tang, forming the same as long as the handle-part of the article,
and in forming longitudinally of the latter and entirely therethrough a hole
adapted to receive said elongated tang and enlarged at its outer end and adapted
to receive a screw-nut. The end of the said tang is screw-threaded and projects
into said enlargement of the hole through the handle, and is there most efficiently
secured by said screw-nut being screwed thereonto and into said enlargement of
the through-hole, the tang-end and outer face of the screw-nut terminating flush
with the handle-end.
The nut is preferably circular and adapted to fit the recess in the handle-end
and nicked across so as to be turned about the tang end after the manner of driving
a screw, but it need not necessarily be so, and may be otherwise adapted in any
convenient manner.

page_text: 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 improvement in or applicable to dessert, fish and
other table knives and forks of that class in which the blade of the knife or the
prongs of the fork is or are formed with a tang which is let into the handle-part or
holding part of the article, the object of the improvement being to secure such
parts of the article together in an improved manner which will avoid the loosening
or separation of the parts, which is a common occurrence with such articles the
parts of which are cemented, shellacked or otherwise secured together as
ordinarily.
:
On the drawings Figs. 1, and 2, represent sectional elevations, at right angles
to each other, of a knife of the class above mentioned, illustrating the application
of the Invention thereto. And Figs. 3, and 4, represent modifications.
Figs. 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, are under plan views. These figures will equally well serve
to illustrate the application of the Invention to forks of the class aforesaid.
To the end aforesaid, the Invention consists in forming the knife-blade a, or
fork-prongs with an elongated tang a¹, forming the same as long or about as long
as the handle-part b, of the article, and in forming longitudinally of the latter and
entirely therethrough a hole b', adapted to receive said elongated tang and enlarged
at its outer end 2, and adapted to receive a screw-nut c. The end a, of the tang
is screw-threaded and projects into the enlargement 2, of the hole through the
handle, and is there efficiently secured by the screw-nute, being screwed thereonto
and into the enlargement of the through hole, where the tang-end and outer face
of the screw-nut may terminate flush with the handle-end, vide Figs. 1 and 2.
The nut is preferably circular or conical and adapted to fit the recess b², in the
handle-end, and is nicked across as at c, or otherwise equivalently adapted so that
it may readily be turned about the tang-end after the manner of driving a screw,
but it need not necessarily be so adapted and may be otherwise equivalently adapted
in any convenient manner.
The nut may be made as a screw-cap, vide Fig. 3, in which event the tang-end
will not show through, and it may be made with laterally projecting wings &
which, when the nut is screwed into position, may be turned into recesses_b³,
vide Fig. 4, made in the sides of the handle-end, so as to lay flush with the surface
of the handle, and will then serve as locks to the nut and will efficiently prevent
it from becoming unscrewed under any conditions of usage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Securing the parts of table knives and forks together in the improved manner
herein before described.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.