An Improved Fastening for a Pocket Knife and Fork Combined.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening for a Pocket Knife and Fork Combined.
I JOSEPH CLARKSON of 34 Dawson Street Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Phonograph Expert, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The ordinary method of fastening a combined knife and fork together is by
means of rivets in one part of the handle which fit into slides in the other part of
the handle the said slides being enlarged at one end so that the rivet heads can
pass through them but when the rivets have been moved along to the other end of
the slides the knife and fork are held together, the action being reversed of course
for separating the knife and fork.
My improvement is to combine the pocket knife and fork by a notch cut gut in
the spring to clip the rivet head above named in the slide, and so to secure it (the
combined knife and fork) together.
It will be seen from the above description that the spring holds the knife and
fork together but when pushed back as usual when that part to which the spring is
attached (the fork say) has been partially opened the other part can be separated
therefrom as the spring will no longer clip the rivet.
It will also be evident that the spring may be otherwise equivalently formed to
clip the rivet head in'its slide.
Dated this 24th day of August 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Fastening for a Pocket Knife and Fork Combined.
I JOSEPH CLARKSON, of 34 Dawson Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Phonograph Expert, 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 :-
The ordinary method of fastening a combined knife and fork together is by
means of rivets in one part of the handle which fit into slides in the other part of
the handle the said slides being enlarged at one end so that the rivet heads can
pass through them but when the rivets have been moved along to the other end of
the slides the knife and fork are held together, the action being reversed of course
for separating the knife and fork.
My improvement is to combine the pocket knife and fork by a notch cut out in
the spring to clip the rivet head above named in the slide, and so to secure it (the
combined knife and fork) together.
It will be seen from the above description that the spring holds the knife and
fork together but when pushed back as usual when that part to which the spring is
attached (the fork say) has been partially opened the other part can be separated
therefrom as the spring will no longer clip the rivet.

page_text: It will also be evident that the spring may be otherwise equivalently formed to
clip the rivet head in its slide.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings illustrating the following description thereof.
Fig. 1 is an edge view of a pocket knife and fork combined.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof in section at the line A A on Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a similar view but with the inner side plate of the fork part of the
combination cut away and the fork partly opened as hereafter described.
From Fig. it will be seen that the combination is made in a well known
imanner that is to say the knife a and the fork b are each contained in a separable
haft, the inner side plate a¹ of the knife haft being connected to the inner side
plate of the fork haft by headed rivets a 2 projecting from the former and
engaging in slotted holes 62 in the latter, so formed that the rivets a 2 can be
passed through the opening at one end of the slots 62 (see dotted lines Fig. 3)
and on pushing back the knife-haft, the rivets a 2 will pass to the other end of the
slots 62, as seen at Figs. 1 and 2 and will hold the two hafts together.
According to my invention I cut away the end of the spring c c as shown at
Figs. 2 and 3 so as to form a clip or projection c 2, which, when the fork 6 is closed
(as seen at Figs. 1 and 2), will clip or hold the rivet head a 2 and secure the knife
and fork hafts together, but when the fork is half opened (see Fig. 3) the end c 2
of the spring c c will be depressed as usual and the rivet head a 2 can be slid into
the position seen at Fig. 3 so that the knife haft can be disengaged from the
fork haft.
It will be evident that the rivets can be fixed to the fork haft and the slotted
slide and clipping spring be applied to the knife haft if desired, but I prefer the
construction shewn on the drawings.
Also the spring may be otherwise formed with a clip at the free end thereof
without departing from the principle of the invention.
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 improved fastener for a pocket knife and fork combined consisting of a
notch cut in (or equivalent formation of) the spring in the haft or handle of one
part clipping the rivet head on the haft or handle of the other part to secure
the said rivet in its slide substantially as described and illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
Dated' this 12th day of October 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant..