AN IMPROVED. IMPLEMENT FOR CUTTING AND GAUGING BUTTER AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the International Patent
Office, Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED. IMPLEMENT FOR CUTTING AND GAUGING
BUTTER AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES."-A communication from abroad by
Samuel Richards, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of
America.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and'
Declaration, on the 3rd September 1874, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Buildings,
London, Doctor of Laws, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
IMPLEMENT FOR CUTTING AND GAUGING BUTTER AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES," and
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-

page_text: trators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have
made solemn Declaration that it has been communicated to me from
abroad by Samuel Richards, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United
States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following state-
ment, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming a part
of this Specification.
Much waste and inconvenience are experienced in cutting regularly
shaped pieces out of enclosed packages, such as barrels, firkins, and tubs
of butter, lard, and other like substances. There have hitherto existed
no means for getting the knife or any other device underneath the pieces
to separate them from the solid mass, and the pieces have been in con-
sequence much broken up and thus rendered unsightly and irregular in
form.
My Invention consists in an implement for facilitating the cutting
operation above alluded to, and the said implement being graduated
as herein-after set forth, unbroken pieces of butter, lard, or other sub-
stances of any desired weight are cut out at a single operation without
materially disturbing the remaining solid mass contained in the package.

page_text: The blades and f¹, are fixed rigidly to the inner sides of the corner
pieces, and the blades g and g₁ are moveable, being attached at cachi
end by flexible joints to the corner pieces respectively as shown at i,
Figure 1.
The upper or inner parts of the moveable blades g and g¹ are a little
curved as shown in Figure 1, and when the implement is being inserted
into the solid mass of the butter, lard, or other substances, these blades
occupy vertical positions, but as soon as the withdrawal of the imple-
ment is commenced the curved upper parts of the said blades are acted
upon by the impending butter or other substances, and these blades
are pressed down and caused to rest flat on pins which project from
the fixed blades f and f¹, one of said pins being shown at j, Figure 1:
The blades g and g¹ when thus pressed down form shelves which support
the butter or other substance during the withdrawal of the implement.
The sides of the cutter may be covered by separate movable plates,
one of which k is shown in place in Figure 1; these plates are pro-
vided with hooks or projections m, which engage the corner pieces b, c,
d, and e, respectively, when said plates are fitted into their respective
places.
The base of the handle a is grooved as at n in Figure 2 to form ways
for the hooks m to pass through, when the side plates above referred to
are being inserted. Thumb screws, one of which is shown at p, Figure 2,
are passed through the plates respectively into the base of the handle to
secure the plates in their places.
The closed sides are required only when the implement is to be
employed for cutting very soft materials.
Instead of constructing the blades as described they may all be rigidly
fixed blades, and separate plates & to form the supporting shelves may be
flexibly attached to the corner pieces above 'the blades as shown in
Figure 3.
Figure 4 is a plan of these shelves 8 respectively showing off sets t,
which rest on the top of the fixed blades f and f', when said shelves
are turned down flat into the supporting position.
Figure 5 is another modification in which the handle a is provided
with a stem w somewhat elongated, showing the implement in the form

page_text: best adapted to measuring ice cream; in this Figure the lower portion of
the implement is broken away.
This implement may be graduated by marks indicative of pounds and
fractions of a pound, as shown in Figure 1.
The butter or other substance drops out of the implement (when it is
turned down on the side) between the flat corner pieces.
Having thus fully described the nature of the said Invention, as
communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of
performing the same I wish it understood that I claim, the combination
of the handle a, angular and flat corner pieces b, c, d, e, and the blades 1
and supporting shelves with or without the removable side plates con-
stituting an implement for separating pieces of butter or other substances
from solid masses of those materials, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of September, in the 1
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
JAMES EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)