Improvements in or relating to Devices for Cleaning Knives and other Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct.,
1899
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1900-Accepted, 11th Aug.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Devices for Cleaning Knives
and other Articles.
I, GEORGE EDWARD GREEN, Granby Street, Leicester, Boot Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to devices for cleaning knives and other articles and has
for its object to produce a simple and efficient device to be used by hand for the
purposes named and which can be easily and firmly gripped and in which the
cleaning material or surface is detachable and can be renewed as often as is
necessary.
My invention comprises a stock or handle of suitable contour provided by
preference with curved notches or recesses to receive the fingers of the person so
as to afford a good grip or hold upon the device.
One end of the device which may be termed the holder is arranged to receive
the cork, felt, rubber or other flexible substance termed the "filler" and by which
emery powder or other suitable composition is applied to the blade of a knife or
other article to be cleaned.
The holder itself is constructed with converging, undercut or flaring sides and
in the groove or passage between them a correspondingly shaped block, pad or
filler of cork or other flexible material is inserted and when this is worn down
it can be renewed.
Dated this 6th day of October 1899.
BOULT, WADE & KILBURN,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Devices for Cleaning Knives
and other Articles.
I, GEORGE EDWARD GREEN, Granby Street, Leicester, Boot 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:—
This invention relates to devices for cleaning knives and other articles and has
for its object to produce a simple and efficient device to be used by hand for the
purposes named and which can be easily and firmly gripped and in which the
cleaning agent or surface is detachable and can be renewed as often as is
necessary.
My invention comprises a stock or handle of suitable contour provided option-

page_text: ally with curved notches or recesses to receive the fingers of the person so as to
afford a good grip or hold upon the device.
One end of the device, which may be termed the holder, is arranged to receive
the cleaning agent which may consist of a block of emery, cork, felt, rubber
or other suitable substance termed the "filler" and by which emery powder or
other suitable composition may be applied to the blade of a knife or other article
to be cleaned.
The holder itself is constructed with preferably converging, undercut or flaring
sides and in the groove or passage between them a correspondingly shaped block,
pad or filler of cork or other suitable material is inserted and when this is worn
down it can be renewed.
Referring to the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cleaning device constructed in accordance with
this invention.
Figure 2 is a transverse section across the head, and
Figure 3 is a view, partly in central longitudinal section and partly in elevation
of a modification.
A represents the stock or handle which may be provided with notches A¹ for
the reception of the fingers to give a better grip, as in Figure 1, or be left smooth
as in Figure 3.
A represents the holder proper, which on its underside has a groove, with pre-
ferably undercut sides A3, as shown most clearly in Figure 2.
Into this groove is slid or forced the correspondingly shaped upper edge of the
cleaning agent B consisting of a block of cork, emery, rubber or like suitable
material by which emery powder or other cleaning compound is rubbed to and fro
over the knife blade or other article to be cleaned.
The block B when formed of any material, such for example as emery, which
per se is a cleaning agent, may be used without any of the compounds or com-
positions herein referred to, and when the said block is worn it can be readily
detached and a similar but new re-fill inserted in its place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
1. A cleaning device consisting of a handle, a grooved head thereto and a cork,
emery, felt, rubber or other suitable block removably fitted in the said head
substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The improved cleaning device consisting of the parts constructed and ar-
ranged substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1900
Witness:-
E. N. LEWIS,
GEORGE EDWARD GREEN,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
Boult, Wade & Kilburn,
Agents for the Applicant.