IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO HANDLES OR HOLDERS FOR USE IN CARVING MEAT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Harris Lake at the Office of
the Cominissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1882. A communication
to him from abroad by Pierre Jacques Carmien of Issy, near Paris, France
HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO HANDLES
OR HOLDERS FOR USE IN CARVING MEAT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
"
A com-
munication to him from abroad by Pierre Jacques Carmien of Issy, near Paris,
France
The main object of this invention is to provide a circular fastening for handles
or holders for use in carving meat and for other purposes which fastening with a
small effort will produce a very energetic action.
The chief feature of the said invention is the employment of a ribbon or band
of nickel or other suitable metal, wound like the main spring of a watch, but the
force of which is exerted in a contrary direction, that is to say centripetally.
The tendency of this spring is to close upon itself but if the natural winding or
coiling is supplemented by drawing upon the exterior end of the said spring, a
central fixing is obtained which is not liable to become slack.
In order that the said invention may be better understood I have represented in
the accompanying drawing the principal applications thereof, by way of example.
Figure 1 represents the said invention applied to a metal handle designed for
holding a leg of mutton or the like.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 shews a piece of split wood, capable of being introduced into the said
metal handle to convert the same into a tool handle.
Figure 4 represents a modification of the said handle.
Figure 5 shews the said invention applied to a wooden handle for tools of various
descriptions.
Figure 1 shews a handle formed of metal branches a bent, stamped and cut.
The form and proportions of this handle may be varied as desired and according
to the nature of the metal or other material employed in its manufacture. The
improved handle possesses more solidity and lightness than those heretofore
employed. The said handle can have any desired decoration or ornamentation,
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page_text: The rose b serves for ornament and for fixing the branches a in cases where these
branches are not cut out of the same sheet of material as the branches a. These
branches, which are sufficiently flexible and naturally form springs are provided
with small abutments c which are fixed upon them in any suitable manner and
which serve to hold in place the improved circular fastening. These stop or
abutments c may form part of the said branches instead of being fixed thereon as
above described.
The interior extremity of the spring d forming the fastening is fixed to one
branch, as represented at e in Figure 2. The exterior extremity of the said spring
is formed with a groove ƒ of suitable length in such a manner that the fastening
button g passes through the sail groove, and is fixed on the second turn of the
spring, that is to say, below the groove through which it passes and in which it
slides freely. This mode of fastening is not always employed, but the groove f
prevents the spring from being opened too far, which might impair the strength of
the fastening.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 it will be seen that by pushing the button g in one
direction the branches a whatever be their number, all approach the centre
simultaneously with an increasing force, by reason of the diminution in the diameter
of this ferrule which is extensible at will.
As shewn in Figure 4, the improved handle may have any kind of mounting in
addition to the parts above described, for example, ivory, silver, nickel or wood.
The introduction into the handle of a piece of split wood will serve to adapt it
to various kinds of tools; moreover, in cases where the fastening device is liable to
be shaken off and worn by the strain of the tool upon which it is fixed, I fit upon
it a small stop button or fastener-h-which-exerts a slight pressure externally and
prevents the spring from being put out of order by the vibrations of the tool.
Figure 5 shews the simplest arrangement that can be given to a tool handle
characterized by the application of the improved fastening.
Amongst other applications of the said invention is the adaptation of the
improved circular fastening as the head of a cork or stopper, which will permit of
fitting it upon any kind of cork or stopper however slight their projecting part
may be above the neck of the bottle, so that this head will forn the means for
withdrawing the said cork or stopper.