An Improved Cutter for Cutting Cheese and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 6th Nov. 1891-Accented 19th Dec.
1801
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cutter for Cutting Cheese and the like.
We, JoHN GIBSON of 21 Old Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Grocer, and JOHN
CAMERON of 8 Wood Street, Partick, Glasgow, Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved cutter for cutting cheese and the like.
The cutter may consist of a wooden or other handle to which are secured two,
preferably, steel arms. The inner ends of these arms may be bent so as to be
inserted into the handle. Where they meet within the handle they may overlap
and be secured in place by a rivet, bolt, screw or equivalent. The ends of the
handle may have metal caps fitted on them. The outer ends of the arms have each
a hole or slot through which is passed a wire. Each end of the wire has, by
preference, a button, knob or catch on it which knobs or catches are larger than
the holes or slots and retain the wire in place. The holes or slots may be so made
as to allow the buttons or knobs to be countersunk. The arms have sufficient
spring in them to always keep the wire stretched taut.
The apparatus may be duplicated or triplicated as desired. Instead of having
two separate arms the arms may be made from one piece of metal secured to or
inserted in the handle. In some cases it might be found advantageous when making
the arms in one piece to thicken the metal at the bent or base-part so as to form a
handle.
Dated this 5th day of February 1891
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cutter for Cutting Cheese and the like.
We. JOHN GIBSON of 21 Old Dumbarton Road Glasgow, Grocer, and JOHN
CAMERON of 8 Wood Street Partick, Glasgow, 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 relates to an improved cutter for cutting cheese and the like.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon:-
Fig. is a plan view of the cutter.
Fig. 2 is a view of the cutting wire.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of the lower end of one of the arms of the
cutter.
The cutter consists of a wooden handle a to which is secured two, preferably,
steel arms b. The arms are bent at r, shown in dotted lines, and inserted into
the ends of the handle a. d, d' are metal ferrules fitted on the ends of the handle
and pins e are passed through these ferrules and the ends of the handle and also
through the bent ends c of the arms so as to retain the said arins firmly and
securely in place. are caps soldered or brazed to the outer ends of the
ferrules d, d. The lower ends of the arms are hooked or bent as shown at g
Fig. 3.
his a wire having on it, at each end, a knob or head i of solder or the like.
The wire is caught and held by the hooky on each arm and as the knobs i are
larger than the hooks g they prevent the wire from coming out of its place when
under tension.

page_text: The arms have sufficient spring in them to always keep the wire / stretched
taut.
In using the cutter it is grasped by the handle a and held sideways, that is, with
the arins vertically above one another; it is then pulled towards the person in such
manner that the wire will cut through the cheese or the like. In working on a
counter a groove may be cut in the counter to serve as a guide for the lower arm
to slide in.
If one of the wires should, by the excessive tension, break at any it can be
easily replaced by another wire.
The apparatus may be duplicated or triplicated as desired. Instead of having
two separate arms the arms may be made from one piece of metal secured to or
inserted in the handle. In some cases it might be found advantageous when
making the arms in one piece to thicken the metal at the bent or base part so as to
form a handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
A cutter for cheese and the like made substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 5th day of November 1890.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.