An Improved Guard for Carving Forks.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Guard for Carving Forks.
I, ALEXANDER PAYNE, of Heath House St. Albans, in the County of Herts,
Gentleman and Jons WILKES ELLIS of 63 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon in
the County of Surrey, Wine Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved guard for carving forks; its object being
to provide a simple, neat and inexpensive device for protecting the carver from
injury in the event of the carving knife slipping.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a guard, which when closed has the
rear part curved upwards; the fore part lying against the body of the fork. The
guard is mounted in a longitudinal slot formed in a solid projection on the upper
side of the carving fork near the handle; the curved part of the guard working in
the slot. The projection may, however, be in the shape of a strap separately made
and riveted, brazed or soldered to the fork, in which case, the slot should be the
space left between the strap and the solid part of the fork. The upper extremity
of the guard is finished off in the usual way. The extremity of the curved lower
part is provided with a knob or an enlargement, which prevents the guard from
coming out of the slot and also serves as a thumb-piece.
To open the guard, the knob is pushed by the thumb until further movement is
arrested by the slotted guard-holder. While in use, the weight of the guard tends
to maintain it in the open position. The guard is closed by pressing the extremity
of the upper part toward the slot.
Dated this 8th day of June 1891.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Guard for Carving Forks.
We, ALEXANDER PAYNE, of Heath House, St. Albans, in the County of Herts,
Gentleman, and JOHN WILKES ELLIS, of 63, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon,
in the County of Surrey, Wine Merchant, 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 guard for carving forks; its object being
to provide a simple, neat and inexpensive device for protecting the carver from
injury in the event of the carving knife slipping.
A carving fork fitted with the improved guard is represented in the accompanying
drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a side elevation; the guard being closed.
Fig. 3 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in section; the guard being
open.
Fig. 4 is a plan illustrating a modified way of securing the guard to the fork;
the guard being closed.
Fig. 5 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in section shewing the same
method of attachment; the guard being open.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a guard A A' which when closed has
the rear part A curved upwards, the fore part A lying against the body of the
fork. The guard is mounted in a longitudinal slot B, which may be forined in a
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page_text: solid projection on the upper side of the carving fork near the handle; the curved
part A working in the slot. The projection may, however, be in the shape of a
strap C separately made and secured to the fork D by means of a rivet E. The
strap C may, however, be brazed or soldered to the fork. The slot B in Figs. 1
to 3 is formed by leaving a space between the strap C and the solid part of the
fork D. The fore part A of the guard is finished off in the usual way. The
extremity of the curved lower part is provided with a knob a or an enlargement,
which prevents the guard from coming out of the slot B and also serves as a
thumb-piece.
To open the guard A A¹, the knob a is pushed by the thumb or finger until
further movement is arrested by the strap C. While in use, the weight of the
guard tends to maintain it in the open position. The guard is closed by pressing
the extremity of the upper part A toward the slot B.
Instead of the guard A A¹ working in a slot B, as shewn in Figs. 1 to 3, it may
work in an open slot d in the solid part of the fork, in which case it is retained by
a rivet E, as represented in Figs. 4 and 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. The application to a carving fork of a guard having a curved rear part
working in a slot formed on the upper side of the fork, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The application to a carving fork of a guard which from its closed position
can be pushed forward by the finger and caused to assume its open position.
substantially as herein described.
3. The use, with a carving fork, of a sliding guard which is maintained in the
open position by its own weight, substantially as herein described.
Dated the 22nd day of March 1892.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.