AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF HANDLES FOR TABLE CUTLERY
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugh Hall of Wetherby in the County of York and
Thomas William Hall of Sheffield in the County of York, for an Invention.
of AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF HANDLES FOR TABLE
CUTLERY
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Hall and Thomas
William Hall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
20th September 1882..
HUGH HALL of Wetherby in the County of York and THOMAS WILLIAM HALL.
of Sheffield in the County of York AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUC
TION OF HANDLES FOR TABLE CUTLERY
This invention relates to an improved manufacture or construction of handles
for Table-cutlery.
This invention consists of the manufacture or construction of handles for Table-
cutlery of cast or pressed annealled (toughened) glass coloured to represent ivory,
pearl, buffalo-horn, stag-horn etcetera, being chiefly applicable as a cheap and
efficient substitute for ivory and pearl which at the present time are scarce and
expensive
In carrying this invention into effect a handle is cast or pressed in a mould and
the hole for the tang of the blade made therein at one operation, the hole may be
plain or may be serrated or screwed for the purpose of retaining the cement and
holding the tang securely in position The exterior of the handle may be plain or
ornamental according to the form of the interior of the mould in which it is cast
or pressed. The handle is then toughened or annealled and the tang is inserted in
the hole of the handle and cemented in position The glass may either be coloured
before being poured or placed in the "handle" mould or the colour of the handle
may be due either to molten coloured or plain glass being poured or placed in &
"handle" mould in which colouring matter is placed, ordinary colouring matters
and processes being employed to produce the coloured handles above specified

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hugh Hall and Thomas William Hall in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th March 1883.
HUGH HALL of Wetherby in the County of York and THOMAS WILLIAM HALL
of Sheffield in the County of York "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CON-
STRUCTION OF HANDLES FOR TABLE CUTLERY"
This Invention relates to an improved manufacture or construction of handles
for Table Cutlery and other cutlery which is equivalent thereto.
This Invention consists of the manufacture or construction of handles for Table
Cutlery (and other Cutlery which is equivalent thereto) of cast, or pressed, annealle<
(toughened) glass, coloured to represent ivory, pearl, buffalo-horn, stag horn
etcetera, being chiefly applicable as a cheap and effecient substitute for ivory and
pearl, which at the present time are scarce and expensive, but which can be made.
to represent shell or be coloured black, blue, etcetera.
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In carrying this Invention into effect a handle is cast or pressed in a mould and
the hole for the tang of the blade made therein at one operation, the hole may be
plain, or may be serrated or screwed, for the purpose of retaining the cement and
holding the tang securely in position, the exterior of the handle may be plain, or
ornamental, according to the form of the interior of the mould in which it is cast
or pressed. The handle is then toughened, or annealled, and the tang is inserted in
the hole of the handle and cemented in position.
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The glass. may either be coloured before being poured, or placed, in the "handle'
mould or the colour of the handle may be due either to molten coloured, or plain,
glass being poured or placed in a "handle" mould in which colouring matter is
placed, ordinary colouring matters and processes being employed to produce the
coloured handles above specified.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature and object of the
said Invention and specified in what manner it is to be, or may be, used or earried
into effect by those skilled in the art of melting colouring casting pressing and
annealling (or toughening) glass, we wish it to be understood that what we claim
as novel and original and secured to us by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent is
An improved manufacture or construction of handles for table cutlery and
cutlery of other equivalent descriptions from molten glass, toughened or annealled
by a subsequent process, as herein before specified and described.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas William Hall on my own behalf and
on behalf of the said Hugh Hall have hereunto set my hand and seal
this nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty three..
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