Improvements in Servers or Holders, and the Joints thereof, for Sugar, Meat, and analogous purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL
Improvements in Servers or Holders, and the Joints thereof, for
Sugar, Meat, and analogous purposes.
ARTHUR ELwell SpurrIEK, Silversmith and Electro Plate Manufacturer
Holland Street Works, Holland. Street Birmingham do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The construction & production of servers or holders for sugar, meat and the like
in the simplest and most inexpensive manner.
These servers or holders of known construction, and jointed pattern, have been
composed of several parts having a central pivot and frequently a spring or springs,
and in other forms an attached guard or handle. I construct my improved servers
or holders entirely, springs and all, out of one continuous piece of metal, preferably
wire, and of varying size or guage according to the purpose for which the server or
holder is to be produced. A piece of wire of the desired length and gauge is so
bent that at the centre it may be grasped in the hand, and the two ends are crossed
at the required distance from their respective extremities. At the point where
these ends cross they are spirally twisted round each other for one or more turns.
This twist has to be bent at a suitable angle to the part forming the handle, and
again the two points which form the actual holder portion, are also bent to form the
holder grip. The twisted spiral thus becomes a practical working joint, and
applicable to numerous articles requireing joints or hinges, and by pressure being
applied to the sides of the handle, in the centre of which on both sides a helixical
coil is made to provide a better hold for the finger and to add to the elasticity of
the handle part; the ends according to the number of spiral twists, are opened
or closed.
In the former case the said ends, when the pressure is relaxed, close by the
expanding action of the handle, which is formed to act as an expanding spring, upon.
and hold or grip the piece of sugar or whatever the server or holder may have been
placed to act upon, and in the latter, the piece is gripped, and released by relaxing
the said pressure.
By taking a much stronger piece of wire and bending it in a similar manner, and
sharpening the two ends of the wire into points the meat holder is produced, as
great strength is required in the said points, I further give the wire forming each
point, separately and individually a twist of about one turn in the length of each
point.
As it is not always possible or desirable to spirally twist the meat holders at the
point of contact of the bent wire, I solder the wire together at the said point, and
in the case of hard soldering, which has the effect of softening the wire, the process
of twisting the points as before described, not only restores, but adds to the strength
of my improved holder, can also effect my object by soldering the portions to
form the prongs onto the handle at right angles to the said handle, and then twisting
and bending the said portions at right angles in the manner required to form a pair
of prongs. The prongs I form either by flattening a round wire, or a flat wire and
slitting it diagonally to produce the pointed prongs.
Tanded this 25th day of June 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Servers or Holders, and the Joints thereof, for
Sugar, Meat, and analogous purposes.
ARTHUR ELWELL SPURRIER, 13 George Street, Birmingham, Silversmith and
Electro Plate Manufacturer, 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 :-
I will now proceed to describe in detail and by the aid of the accompanying
drawings the manner in which
carry out my improvements in the said servers
holders and joints.
Figure 1. represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan a sugar, pickle or
the like server or holder constructed according to this my invention out of one
continuous piece of wire including the joint or hinge, a piece of wire of the requisite
length and gauge, according to the size of the article to be produced, is curled at
both ends a, a', it is next coiled on each side one turn b, b', it is then given one and
a half turn horizontally at the centre to form the bow c, whereby the two ends are
brought alongside of each other so that they can be crossed at d. The two portions,
at either side of the crossed parts, allowing sufficient material to form the twisted
joint are then fixed firmly into a vice or other mechanical device, and turned two
or more complete turns, so that a spiral twist is given, the twisted portion is then
bent at a suitable angle to that portion A forming the handle, and the holder
portion B is also bent in a line parallel with the said handle.
Figures 3, 4.-show an elevation and plan of another form of my improved server
or holder, which as will be readily seen, can be made in a variety of patterns. The
same letters refer to the similar parts in the various figures. In this case the joint d,
is formed by giving the various portions to form the joint, only one and a half turns,
which produces a practicable joint without being set at an angle.
Figure 5.-shows in elevation and open, the joint d, Figure 1, but made out of
a shorter piece of wire, spirally twisted three and a half turns, in the manner as
before described under Figures 1, 2. The connected end is then cut open and all
the ends bent to form rings for rivetting, screwing or nailing to the object to
be jointed.
Figure 6.-shows a similar joint but closed.
Figure 7.-shows a similar joint, but having, the ends pointed for driving into
wood or soldering onto or otherwise connecting to metal objects.
Figure 8. represents in perspective a holder for meat, such as mutton, beef and
the like. A is the portion forming the handle, B is the holder portion or portions,
pointed at the ends e, el, so that they can be stuck in the meat like a skewer or fork.
This holder is bent out of one continuous piece of stout wire and twisted at the
junction f, in a similar manner to that described and shown under Figures 1 and 2,
being however without the curled or coiled parts.
Figure 9.-represents also in perspective, a meat holder constructed as that
shown at Figure 8, it being brought together and soldered at g instead of being
twisted.
Figure 10.-shows the plan of a meat holder similar to that represented at
Figure 9, but being of flat form or shape, that is the plan Figure 10 shows the
exact configuration of the article.
Figure 11.-shows the plan of a meat holder with the holder portion B soldered
on at right angles to the handle portion A, which by bending the portion B into
the shape as shown at Figures 8. 9. and 10, and indicated by the dotted lines e¹ll,
, and giving each wire e, e', a longitudinal twist of about one turn
to give the said points the required strength for the purpose of a server or holder
constructed according to this my said invention.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
Firstly. The production of servers or holders out of one continuous piece of
metal or wire, having a twisted joint, as particularly described and set forth in
Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4, of the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The production of servers or holders with bent and twisted points
and soldered junctions..
Thirdly. The production of joints or hinges by twisting as set forth in
Figures 1. 2. 5. 6. and 7.
Dated this 24th day of Mach 1906
A. E. SPURRIER.