METHOD OF SECURING THE SCALES TO THE TANGS OR BLADES OF ARTICLES AD ALLEDV
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hawksley Taylor and George Hawksley Taylor
both of Sheffield in the County of York for an invention, of A NOVEL
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METHOD OF SECURING THE SCALES TO THE TANGS OR BLADES OF ARTICLES
AD ALLEDV
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hawksley Taylor
and George Hawksley Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 27th May 1882.
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HENRY HAWKSLEY TAYLOR, and GEORGE HAWKSLEY TAYLOR, both of Sheffield
SCALES
A NOVEL METHOD OF SECURING THE
in the County of York.
TANGS OR BLADES OF ARTICLES OF CUTLERY.
TO THE
Our Invention relates to improvements in Cutlery and particularly to a novel
method of securing the Scales (which form the handles) to the "tang or blade,
without the use of pins, screws, or other visible fastenings. Our invention is
applicable to Knives of all classes that have scale handles, and to Machets, Sugar
Cane Knives, and similar articles of Cutlery, and it consists chiefly in connecting
the said parts by running molten metal into the dovetailed or undercut apertures
or holes formed in both the scales and the tang or blade.
In carrying out our invention in securing the scales of a butcher's 'knife, for
example, to the tang of the blade, We form in a suitable position in the tang of the
blade two round holes having a slot cut from the edge of the tang into each of the
said holes.
In the inner faces of the scales that fit against the tang or blade, we form holes
corresponding in position with those in the tang.
These holes are dovetailed, or undercut or otherwise made larger at the back, so
that when the tang is placed in position between the scales; and molten metal is
poured down the two openings formed by the slots in the edge of the tang, it fills
up the hole in the tang, and also those on each side of it formed in the scales, and
thus in a simple manner securely binds the parts together.
We do not confine ourselves to the number or shape of the holes as described, as
these may be varied to suit different classes of work.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Hawksley Taylor and George Hawksley Taylor in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th November 1882.
HENRY HAWKSLEY TAYLOR and GEORGE HAWKSLEY TAYLOR both of Sheffield
in the County of York "A NOVEL METHOD OF SECURING THE SCALES TO THE
TANGS OR BLADES OF ARTICLES OF CUTLERY."
Our Invention relates to a novel method of securing scales to the tangs or blades
of articles of Cutlery in a simple and efficient manner without the use of pins,
screws, or other visible fastenings.
Our invention is applicable to knives of all classes that have scale handles, and
also to Matchets, Sugar Cane Knives and similar articles of Cutlery, and it consists
in connecting the beforementioned parts by running molten metal through slots
and holes formed in the tangs or blades, into dovetailed or undercut apertures, or
recesses formed in the undersides of the scales where it sets or hardens into buttons
or rivets.
In carrying out our invention as applied to securing the scales to the tang or
blade of a Butcher's Knife, for example, which is illustrated in the accompanying
sheet of Drawings, which represent two methods of carrying out our invention
and to which I will now refer in order that our invention may be clearly
understood.
We form in a suitable position in the tang D of the blade B one hole as shown
in figure 1 at A, or two holes as shown in figure 2, each hole having a slot
or opening F, cut into it from the edge, or from the end of the tang D, shown
in elevation and section in figure 3-In the underside or inner faces of the scales E
that fit against the tang D, we form dovetailed or undercut recesses C, C, by, which
is to be understood recesses that are larger in the interior than they are at the mouth
or opening, and as plainly illustrated in Fig: 3 and in such a position that when
the tang is held between the scales E, as shown in Fig. 4 and molten metal is
poured in the small openings formed in the edge (or end) of the tang D, and shown
in Fig 4 at F, F, it immediately fills up the holes A, A, and the slots F in the
tang, as well as the recesses C, C, in the scales where it sets or hardens, and thus
in a simple and expeditious manner securely bolts the three parts together.
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Figure 5 is a sectional view through the centre of the metal in the recess, and
Figure 6 is a finished knife.
When the metal runners are cut off from the edge of the handle at F, F, there
are no outward or visible fastenings to interfere with or detract from the appearance
of the Knife-see Figure 6.
Having thus described the nature of our invention and the manner in which it
may be carried into practice
We wish it to be understood that we are aware that scales have previously been
secured to tangs or blades by molten metal being poured into grooves and similar
hollows formed round the outside of the scales-and therefore we do not claim
broadly either the use of the molten metal as a means of securing the scales of
Cutlery, or as an outside fastener as above mentioned, but what we do claim as
novel and original and of our invention, and therefore as secured to us by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is ;-.
The method of securing the scales to the tangs or blades of articles of Cutlery
by means of metal poured while in a molten state through convenient openings

page_text: into dovetailed or undercut apertures, or recesses, formed in the inner faces of the
scales, the metal in each recess of the opposite scales being connected through
openings made in the tangs, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof we the said Henry Hawksley Taylor and George
Hawksley Taylor, have have hereunto set our hands and seals this fourth
day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and eightytwo.
GEO: H TAYLOR. (L.S.)
H&H TAYLOR
(L.S.)