AN IMPROVED IMPLEMENT FOR SHARPENING KNIVES AND OTHER TABLE USES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
" AN IMPROVED IMPLEMENT FOR SHARPENING KNIVES AND OTHER TABLE
USES." A communication from abroad by Owen Wilson Taft, of
Brooklyn, County of Kings, and State of New York, United States
of America.
Sealed the 4th August 1874, and dated the 3rd March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 3rd March 1874.
"
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED IMPLEMENT FOR SHARPENING KNIVES
- AND OTHER TABLE USES," to be as follows:-

page_text: if made of the same thickness at the inner edge. The blades may, as
before stated, be secured to the handle, and the head in other ways, say
by casting a collar or bolster around the ends, and they may be made by
planing out the spaces between them from a solid rod of steel, thus
making the shank or rod and the blades in one piece.
The skewer pull consists of a little flat plate projecting from the end
of the head of sharpener or the rod or shank, with a wide notch in one
side adapted to grip a skewer, such as is used for pinning up a piece of
meat to be roasted, to pull it out for convenience in carving.
A small short strong cutting blade also projects from the end of the
skewer pull in a manner adapted to make it convenient for opening tin
cans and the like.
It will be readily seen that a knife sharpener constructed on this plan?
is calculated to be very effective in consequence of the ample amount
of effective sharpening edges, which can be readily re-sharpened when
needed, and it will be very lasting in consequence of the width of blades
subject to wear. When the blades are detachably connected they may
be taken out and reversed to change the edges worn dull for the sharp
ones,
O SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent.
Office on the 3rd September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lanc, in the County of Middlesex,
5 Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign; did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, adminis-:
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page_text: is flat to form the edges for scraping or cutting the knife blade, said
blades being made separately and attached to the stock or shank, say by
collars on it, with which the ends of the blade connect, or fastened
in any equivalent way, or they may be formed by planing or milling out
grooves between the blades in a rod of steel as large as the required
diameter of the blades.

page_text: 6thly. A skewer pull adapted for pulling skewers, as herein described,
applied to an implement for table use, substantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
HY. SNALES,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)