Improvements in Securing Handles to Table and other like Cutlery.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Handles to Table and other like
Cutlery.
I, GEORGE HENRY ASKHAM 54, Broad Lane, in the City of Sheffield, Cutler,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates more particularly to articles of cutlery having scale
tangs or flat tangs made from the same continuous metal as the blade or like part.
I propose to cut out two or three recesses in one edge of the tang and about
half way through so as to leave one or more strip like projections representing
rivets.
The handle is sawn down one side and also at the ends to receive the tang which
is placed in position from one side. Holes are bored to allow the strip like projections
to pass through, to enable them to be rivetted.
Dated the 14th day of November 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Securing Handles to Table and other like
Cutlery.
I, GEORGE HENRY ASKHAM 54 Broad Lane, in the City of Sheffield, Cutler,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same has to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates more particularly to articles of cutlery having scale-tangs,
or flat tangs continuous with the blade.
It is illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings in which :
Fig. 1, represents a table knife blade and tang as punched out of a piece of flat
steel.
Fig. 2, a handle of wood or other material divided down the centre to show the
saw-gate and pin holes.
Fig. 3, edge view of entire handle.
Fig. 4, finished knife.
In carrying out my invention, I cut out of one edge of the tang T, which is
preferably made in one continuous piece with the blade B, two or more recesses or
gaps R, so as to leave one or more and preferably two strips S, projecting from the
tang T, and which represent rivets.
In the drawing I have shown two such strips and the handle is therefore made to
correspond.
I saw the handle as seen in Fig. 2, down one side or edge centrally and longi-
tudinally, and also across the ends, this saw-gate is marked S G, and is to receive
the tang T, to which it corresponds in depth.
Through the solid wood W, at the bottom of the saw-gate I bore pin holes P H
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page_text: to receive the strips or pins S. When the tang is forced into position in the handle
the strips or pins S, are rivetted and the handle is thereby firmly secured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1
1. The improved method of attaching and securing handles to table cutlery and
other like cutlery, in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated.
2. As a means for securing handles upon scale-tang cutlery, forming strips or
pins S, (to be used as rivets) in the recessed edge of the tang, and forming a handle
with saw-gates and pin holes to receive the same, as hereinbefore described and
substantially as illustrated.
Dated the 11th day of December 1894
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.