Improvements in Handles for Knives, Tools, or other Instruments for Manual Operation.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Knives, Tools, or other Instruments
for Manual Operation.
I, PHILIP HENRY BRACHER of Pencader, Wincanton, in the County of
Somerset, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object a handle for knives, tools or other implements
for manual operation, which shall be cheap to manufacture and shall, at the 'same
time, offer a good gripping surface for the hand. The handle is applicable (inter
alia) to meal mixers or poultry food mixers.
In carrying out the invention, the handle is formed of a coil of wire, preferably
in the form of a parallel spiral. It is of such a diameter that the operator can
easily grasp the coil by the hand, and the respective rounds of the coil are of such
a pitch that the fingers fit between the coils and obtain such a grip thereof that it
is impossible for the implement to slip out of the hand or be forced out without
very great force.
If desired; the strength and temper of the metal of which the handle is made
may be so adjusted as to allow a slight elasticity in use, and this will have the
effect of absorbing the shocks caused when using a percussion tool, such as a
hammer.
One great advantage of my invention lies in the fact that some tools to which it
has heretofore been usual to affix separate handles may now have their handles
formed in one from the same metal as that of which they are composed.
The handle may be formed by winding the wire round a wooden or other core,
and, if additional strength be desired, the core may be left in place, or any suitable
filling piece may be used. The handle may be finished off in various ways, such'as
by being painted or covered with leather, etcetera, the essential point being, however,
the spiral form.
D
1001
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Knives, Tools, or other Instruments
for Manual Operation.
I, PHILIP HENRY BRACHER, of Pencader, Wincanton, in the County of
Somerset, Engineer, 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 has for its object a handle for knives, tools or other implements
for manual operation, which shall be cheap to manufacture and shall, at the same
time, offer a good gripping surface for the hand.
The handle is formed of a coil of wire, preferably in the form of a parallel
spiral. It is of such a diameter that the operator can easily grasp the coil by the
hand, and the respective rounds of the coil are of such a pitch that the fingers fit
between the coils and obtain such a grip thereof that it is impossible for the
implement to slip out of the hand or be forced out without very great exertion.
If desired, the strength and temper of the metal of which the handle is made

page_text: may be so adjusted as to allow a slight elasticity in use, and this will have the effect
of absorbing the shocks caused when using a percussion tool, such as a hammer.
One great advantage of my invention lies in the fact that some tools to which it
has heretofore been usual to affix separate handles may now have their handles
formed in one therewith and from the same metal as that of which they are
composed.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 shews the improved handle as applied to a tool for mixing purposes.
Figure 2 shews a handle of stronger design.
:
In these A is the coil of wire, B one form of tool to which the handle can be
applied, part of which forms a core round which the wire A. can be coiled. A
strengthening bar C can be supplied if desired. The coil A, core B and bar Care
soldered together at intervals.
The handle may also be formed by winding the wire A round a core of wood or
other material, and, if additional strength be desired, the core may be left in place,
or any suitable filling piece may be used. The handle-may be finished off in
various ways, such as by being painted or covered with leather, etcetera, the essential
point being, however, the spiral form. The handle is applicable (inter alia) to meal
mixers, poultry food mixers, reaping hooks, bill hooks, axes, winches for churns,
pruning scissors, toasting forks, bread forks, confectioners window forks, bacon and
cheese knives, spoons, grocers' and drysalters" scoops, churns, chaff cutters and
similar implements.
Spoons can be so made that, if of metal, the handle shall be spiral, or if of wood,
a coil of wire can be wound around the wooden handle. My invention can also be
applied to pencils or pen holders by placing the wire coil around said articles and
as the pencil gets used up, the wire coil is slipped back or placed on another pencil,
or slipped down to preserve the points of pencils from breaking or pens from
blotting.
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 improvement in handles which consists in forming them of a coil of wire
wound on or secured to a metal or other core forming part of the tool or other
article itself, or made separate and fastened thereto, the said coil being of such a
diameter and pitch as to offer a good gripping surface for the hand substantially as
described.
2. The herein described handle or holder for knives, tools or other instruments
for manual operation substantially as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of October 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.