Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Table Cutlery.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Table Cutlery.
I, WALTER JOHN MAPPIN, 2, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Manu-
facturer, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in connection with the manufacture of
table cutlery, and more particularly to the method of securing the handles of
same.
The annexed sheet of drawings clearly illustrates how the invention is or may
be carried into practice, and will be referred to in the following specification of
which they form a part.
Fig. 1, represents a table knife, with the handle in section, showing the com-
bined means for securing the handle.
Figs. 2 & 3, are similar views of table knives each case being a modification
of the first one.
The invention consists in the combination with certain means or appliances by
which firstly, the end of the tang is secured and drawn inwards until the blade
is in position with the bolster held against the handle, and secondly of a com-
pressible washer, sleeve or ring placed round or upon the tang, or within a recess
formed in the end of the handle, or otherwise interposed between the bolster of
the blade and the handle.
Referring to the drawings and to Fig. 1, the blade is marked 1, the bolster 2,
the handle which is shown in section 3, the tang 4, the screwed end of the tang 5.
According to this arrangement I make a hole in the handle to receive the tang,
and at the bottom of the hole I form a screwthread in the solid material.
I prepare the tang 4, with a correspondingly screwthreaded end 5, to engage
with the tapped part of the handle before mentioned.
I recess the top end of the handle to receive a washer or ring of compressible
material 6 preferably of tin foil, such washer or the like when placed in position
projecting beyond the end of the handle.
When the blade is being screwed into the handle, the projecting washer is
compressed into the recess forming a cushion for the face of the bolster to bed
against, and at the same time taking a firm grip of the tang.
If preferred the recess may be made in the face of the bolster 2, or part in the
bolster and part in the end of the handle.
According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2 I bore the handle completely
through, and form a recess to receive a nut 7, which is screwed upon the end of
the tang 4, and by the action of which the washer 8, is compressed.
Fig. 3, is a slight modification of Fig. 2, in which I substitute a screwed cap 9,
with a closed end, so as to conceal the end of the tang, which in the case of a nut
sleeve
I also illustrate what I mean by the term
as in Fig. 2, would be seen.
compressible material 10,
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page_text: The tang where surrounded by the sleeve may with advantage be made square,
or of other form than round, so as to be firmly gripped by the sleeve, the recess
for which is not round but preferably conforms somewhat to the sectional con-
figuration of the handle.
In all cases the compressible material in the form of a washer, sleeve, coil or
the like is used in conjunction with one of the three methods of securing the tang
described and shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
In the manufacture of table cutlery, the use of a compressible washer of tinfoil
or its equivalent, interposed between the boltster and the handle, in combination
with a tang the end of which is screwed into the handle, as hereinbefore described
and shown in Fig..1.
In articles of table cutlery, the use of a washer, sleeve, coil or the like of tinfoil,
or other compressible equivalent, interposed between. the bolster and the handle,
in combination with a tang secured by a nut 7, or cap 9, as hereinbefore described
& shown:
Dated the 26th dow of Sontamban 1808
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Agent for Applicant, Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield..