Taserting Life knives.
Year: 1888

page_text: I, ATTON JOSEPH NORMAN, 1 Oliver Street, Nottingham, Merchant, 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 :-
Taserting Life knives.
Figure 2 a plan of the same with the upper half thrown back showing the position
of the two pair of pads hereafter referred to and Figure 3 is a transverse sectional
view.
Each knife cleaner consists of the following parts, a hollow base plato A divided on
its upper side into three divisions by vertical flanges the ends of the base plate are
somewhat higher than the remainder and have the outer ends of an upper plate B
hinged to them, the underside of the plate B is divided into three to correspond
to the divisions in the base plate, the two largest divisions in which are cach
provided with a longitudinal strip A in the centre, the surface of which forms the
are of a circle upon which the lower side of two pads A1 and A2 rock the pad A'
is not shown at Fig. 2. each pad being kept in position by two screws A*, each of
which is passed into a hole in the bottom of the base plate and through corresponding
holes in each strip, and is then firmly scrowed into the underside of the two pads A¹A
the holes in the plate and strips being countersunk at both ends to allow the bevel
sided pads to rock freely in their divisions. The upper plate B has its two largest
divisions provided with pads B B the same size as the lower pads and are firmly
secured to the plate by screws shown at Figure 1, the upper pads do not rock, but
rise and fall with the plate as the knives to be cleaned are moved between each
pair of pads, these pads may be soft or hard.
Each pad is covered with chamois or other leather, or any other suitable material.
Between the two lower pads a boss A projects upwards which is drilled out and
screw threaded to receive the lower screw threaded end of a thumb screw AⓇ the
upper end of which passes through an oval slot A in the upper plate when it is
lowered onto the base plate as shown at Figures 1 and 3.

page_text: To set the cleaner, when closed the screw A° is partly unscrewed, a slotted
clip A which slides between two parallel ribs on the top of the upper plate is then
moved into the position shown at Figure 1 with its forked end lying under the
collar of the thumb screw, which is then screwed down to give the requisite pressure,
or equivalent means may be employed to produce pressure.
And the pads A, B having been previously wetted and strewn over with emery
powder, bath brick powder, or an equivalent polishing material and some similar
powder having been strewn over the two pads A, B, which must be always kept dry
and the machine having been firmly secured to the edge of a table or other convenient
board by a clamp, two knives side by side may be placed flat between the two wet
pads and by repeatedly pushing them up to the hilt between the pads and partly
withdrawing them, they will speedily be cleaned, then by repeating the operation
between the two dry pads, they will be polished.
When the required number of knives are cleaned on their sides, the thumb screw
is partly unscrewed, and upon the lid being thrown back as shown at Figure 2, the
back of the knives may be cleaned with dry polishing powder upon an inclined leather
covered fixed pad A shown at Figures 2 and 3.
A smaller machine may be omployed when only one knife at a time is required to
be cleaned, such smaller machine may have the upper plate hinged to the lower one,
or it may be loose, in either case the pressure screw A may be dispensed with, and
pressure he applied by the hand of the attendant.
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 :-
The construction and employment of a knife cleaning machine provided with two
pair of pads the lower pads of each pair is arranged to rock, one pair being kept wet
and the other pair dry, substantially as described and illustrated in the Drawings
annexed.