Improvements in Butter or like Knives or Servers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 20th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Butter or like Knives or Servers.
I EDGAR ALFRED GODDIN of 138 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, in the
County of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in the manufacture or construction of a
butter knife or like knife, or server, so as to render the same better capable of
serving its purpose.
I make the handle with the greater diameter of the same at right angles to the
line of greater diameter of the blade and the blade is made with the central portion
removed or pierced so as to reduce frictional contact with the mass of butter or like
substance to be cut or served.
The handle may be of other convenient form than that indicated.
The edges of the central open space or recess may be formed chisel edged, or
otherwise adapted to aid division or free passage of the blade through the mass.
Dated the 8th day of July 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Butter or like Knives or Servers.
I EDGAR ALFRED GODDIN of 138 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, in the
County of London, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide a butter knife or similar knife or server
from which the butter or other substance may be more easily detached or released
when the portion has been cut from the bulk onto a dish or other receptacle.
This result attain by removing a portion from the centre of that part of the
blade used for cutting, and leaving just the border with which to effect the said
cutting the edges of the hole so formed being chisel edged or bevelled on one or
both sides of the blade to prevent the butter from finding lodgement there, and so
interfering with the attainment of my object.
In the accompanying dr wings,
Fig. 1 represents a side view of the improved butter-knife, Fig. 2 a plan, and
Fig. 3 a sectional view of same taken on the line -e of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a detail to a much larger scale of the chisel or bevel edge of the
hole d.
a is the blade of a butter knife and its handle, which is in this case shewn as an
integral part of the blade, formed by twisting that portion of the knife so as to
make it lay in a plane at right angles to the blade, but I do not restrict myself to
this or any other ordinary construction as I may apply my improvement to any
suitable pattern. c represents the hole, best shown in Fig. 1, and d are the edges of
that hole which are bevelled or chisel edged (see detail Fig. 4) to prevent the
butter from finding lodgement which it might do if they were left square.
It is obvious that since, in a butter knife of the usual pattern the butter adheres
to the extended surface which the blade ordinarily presents, if its area be reduced
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page_text: the adhesion will also be reduced in like ratio as long as the lodgement of the
.butter is prevented.
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:
1. A knife or like server having a blade with so much of its substance removed
as will prevent excessive adhesion of butter or like material to same, by reducing
its superficial area in contact as set forth and described in the Specification.
2. A knife or server for butter or other like use constructed as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated the 8th day of April 1893.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.