IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEAPOT HANDLES, KNOBS, DooR PLATES, FINGER PLATES, RAZOR SCALES, AND KNIFE HANDLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Russell, of 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield,
in the County of York, Britannia Metal Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEAPOT HANDLES, KNOBS,
DooR PLATES, FINGER PLATES, RAZOR SCALES, AND KNIFE HANDLES."
Sealed the 28th April 1857, and dated the 28th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Russell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
October 1856.
I, SAMUEL RUSSELL, of No. 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Britannia Metal Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEAPOT HANDLES,
KNOBS, DOOR PLATES, FINGER PLATES, RAZOR SCALES, AND KNIFE HANDLES," to be
as follows:
This Invention consists principally in combining horn with mother-o'pearl,
ivory, silver, or other metal or material in the manufacture of teapot handles,
knobs, door plates, finger plates, razor scales, and knife handles. The horn
may be moulded into any desired shape, and afterwards studded with orna-
mental work of mother-o'pearl, ivory, silver, or other metal or material which
may be pressed into it in the form of leaves or other approved design.
Another part of this Invention consists in an improved mode of connecting
handles made of the above combined materials to teapots, which may be
effected by screwing metal ferrules on to each end of the said handle, and
afterwards soldering the ferrules to the teapot. The horn will be found a
powerful non conductor of heat, and therefore well adapted for the handles of
tea and coffee pots. The horn may be made of any desired color.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Russell in the Great Seal Patent Offico on the 28th
April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
RUSSELL, of No. 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Britannia Metal Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Ifer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Der Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Russell, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Russell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Russell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
timo agree. with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEAPOT HANDLES, KNOвS, DOOR PLATES, FINGER
PLATES, RAZOR SCALES, AND KNIFE HANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Samuel Russoll, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said. Invention,
and in, what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be. filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months uext
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that, I,, the said Samuel Russell, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly, described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
My Invention consists, principally in combining horn with mother-o'pearl,
ivory, silver, or other metal or material in the manufacture of teapot handles,
knobs, door plates, finger, plates, razor scales, and knife handles.
The horn may be, moulded into any desired shape, and afterwards studded
with ornamental work of mother-o'pearl,, ivory, silver, or other metal or
material which may be pressed into it, in the form of leaves or other approved
design.
Another part of my said Invention consists in an improved mode of con-
necting handles made of the above combined materials to teapots, which may

page_text: is of horn, but when the handle is of metal, I then form the said ferrules,
as at Fig. 6, of horn, softened as aforesaid, and shaped as at Fig. 6, where a
is a ferrule of horn, b, b, pieces of metal screwed thereon, and afterwards
soldered to the teapot and the handle, thus interposing a non-conductor of
heat between the metal of the teapot and that of the handle, instead of
making the handle of a non-conducting substance. And in using horn
ferrules, I connect them by screwing one end to the handle and by the
other end to the teapot, with coment or other suitable adhesive substance or
composition. In manufacturing razor scales and knife handles, I form them
of German silver or other metal or material cast, stamped, or otherwise formed,
with ornamental perforations or openings therein, as at x, Figures 3 and 4,
which said openings I fill up with horn softened and pressed thereinto; and
this mode of manufacture applies also to finger plates, door knobs, name
plates for doors, and such like articles of manufacture. The horn which I
employ may either be of its natural color, or it may be made of any desired
color by any of the known means for coloring horn.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention, together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim
as my Invention intended to be secured to me by the above in part recited
Letters Patent is,-
Firstly, the combining of born with metal in the manufacture of teapot
handles, in the manner and for the purpose above stated.
Secondly, the screwed ferrules B, B, at Figure 1, for connecting the handle
to the teapot.
Thirdly, the use and employment of horn in combination with metal,
mother-o'pearl, ivory, or other material in the manufacture of razor scales,
knife handles, and such like articles.
In witness whereof, I the said Samuel Russell have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness
ALFRED SCARGILL,
46, High Street, Sheffield.
SAMUEL RUSSELL. (L.S.)