Handles for Table Cutlery and Improved Method of Attaching.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Handles for Table Cutlery and Improved Method of Attaching.
JOHN BROOKE 236 Crookes Moor Road, Sheffield in the County of York Ivory
Turner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and durable non-metallic handle
(such as ivory or bone) of two or more pieces and to attach them. by an improved
method to table cutlery so as to make a perfectly secure handle and I accomplish
this desirable object in the following manner. For example in making a table
knife handle I use strips of a suitable length and thickness (which can be
joined together if desirable) a hole is drilled in each piece to allow a tang to
pass down. In attaching the handle to a table knife (for example) I use two
tangs fixed at a suitable distance apart so as to allow the handle to slide on
which can then be fastened either by edge pins going through the handle and
tangs, or by carrying the tangs through the end of handle, and riyeting the same,
thus making a perfectly secure handle, as by useing the two tangs as described
prevents the handle when finished from moving round and also keeps the pieces of
which the handle is composed of in close position.
Darad this Olet dor of Nov 1901
JOHN BROOKE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Handles for Table Cutlery and Improved Method of Attaching.
I, JOHN BROOKE 236 Crookes Moor Road, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Ivory Turner 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:-
The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and durable non metallic handle,
composed of two or more pieces of such material as ivory, bone, or the like, and to
secure them to articles of table cutlery by an improved method, and so as to produce
a perfectly secure and sound handle of good appearance at moderate cost.
I have illustrated my invention in the annexed sheet of drawings in which similar
letters refer to similar parts in any of the figures.
Figs. and 2, represent the pieces from which the handle is made, and the handle
complete.
Figs. 3 and 4, are similar views of a modification in the construction.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, show the double tang, and modification.
In carrying out my invention I use strips of the material, say ivory for example,
which can be cut from the waste pieces of ivory that are cut off larger work, and
which are consequently of much less intrinsic value than the larger pieces of ivory
from which table knife handles are usually made.
These pieces may be preferably of a size that two of them such as shown in
Fig. 1, will make a handle when put together, but they may be of smaller sizes,
such as is indicated by the dotted lines L, in which case the handle would be
composed of four pieces.
When composed of two pieces A, and B, I join them together with cement or
any suitable adhesive material and bore a hole C, longitudinally through or partly
through them to admit the tangs T.
These holes may be bored out either before or after the pieces are joined together
as shown in Fig. 2.

page_text: Or as shown in Fig. 3, I may take two square strips A and B, and an inter-
mediate thin strip E, and secure them together by any desirable means either
adhesive or mechanically, and bore the tang holes C, either through, or partly
through, according to the method intended to be used for securing the tangs.
The blades, forks, or the like, are made with a double tang T, preferably round
and arranged as seen in Fig. 5, but not necessarely of equal length.
They may be readily made by punching the central part and sides from what is
known as a scale tang, or by forging a flat tang of the width required for the two
tangs and cutting out the centre T¹.
In Fig. 6, I have shown the blade with a short tang as well as a long one, in this
case I bore the hole in the handle for the long tang so that it will run out near the
centre of the end of handle and incline the tang as shown, a cross pin may be passed
through the handle and tangs, or through the short tang only if desired.
In Fig. 7, both tangs are intended to pass to the end of handle and be secured by
the nuts or caps or heads H.
For tangs such as shown in Fig. 5, the holes in the handle may be bored partly
through as in Fig. 3, and be fastened by cross pins P', or quite through if it is
desired to rivet the ends of tangs.
If the tangs are used as in Fig. 6, then one hole only is bored through, if as
Fig. 7, both holes are bored through the handle and enlarged at the ends for the
heads H.
By this method of using double tangs, the holes C, in the handle may be of
smaller diameter, than those now used for single tangs, thereby leaving the material
stronger at that point and avoiding the objectionable dark line down the centre of
the handle caused by the tang and cement showing through the transparent. ivory
which is thinner at that part when a larger hole is required.
The double tang also holds the parts of the handle firmly together forming an
auxiliary to the cement, and it is impossible for the blade to turn round out of
position as is so often the case with blades secured by the single tang.
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 1
claim is :-
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1. A built up handle for cutlery constructed with longitudinal strips or pieces
and having two holes to receive a double tang, substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown.
2. The method of securing handles to articles of table cutlery by preparing the
said articles with a double tang, (or two tangs) and fitting same into corresponding
holes prepard in the handle and fixing them by any convenient means substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated the 18th day of February 1809
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.