An Improved Appliance or Device for Securely Holding Joints or Pieces of Meat on Butchers' Blocks.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1891
Complete Secification Left, 18th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Device for Securely Holding Joints or
Pieces of Meat on Butchers' Blocks.
I, HENRY HARRISON, of 9 Avenham Lane, Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved appliance or device for holding joints or
pieces of meat on butchers' blocks and has for its object to provide a convenient
means whereby a joint or piece of meat (hereinafter termed the "joint") may be
securely held down on the block whilst the said joint is being divided or sawn
through. The improved appliance or device consists of a pair of pointed hooks or
fingers curved or bent downwardly and carried on the upper end of an arm or rod
whose lower end is jointed to one end of a suitable spring fastened either to the
side or to the underside of the block. If the block be carried on a stand I employ
a flat horizontally arranged curved metal spring one end of which is firmly secured
to the underside of the block the other end being jointed to the lower end of the
arm or rod carrying the hooks at its upper end. If the block rises from the floor
or ground employ a vertically arranged spiral spring fastened at its lower end to
the side of the block and at its upper end to the lower end of the said arm or rod.
The spiral spring may be held in position against the side of the block by being
inounted on an internally arranged spindle or guide bar. The hooks are preferably
about six inches apart and a curved bar fastened at each of its ends to the back
of each hook forms a handle. The action of the parts as above described is as
follows: The joint having been placed on the block opposite the hooks, the said
hooks are by means of the handle lifted against the spring until sufficiently high to
allow of their being pressed into the side of the joint and on being released the
hooks will by the downward pull of the spring be brought down so as to enter and
firmly hold or grip the joint in position.
Dated this 18th day of February 1891
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Device for Securely Holding Joints or
Pieces of Meat on Butchers' Blocks.
I, HENRY HARRISON, of 9 Avenham Lane, Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Builder, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved appliance or device for holding joints or
pieces of meat on butchers' blocks and has for its object to provide a convenient
means whereby a joint or piece of meat (hereinafter termed the "joint") may be
securely held down on the block whilst the said joint is being divided or sawn
through. The improved appliance or device consists of a pair of pointed hooks or
fingers curved or bent downwardly and carried on the upper end of an arm or rod
whose lower end is jointed to one end of a suitable spring fastened either to the
side or to the underside of the block. If the block be carried on a stand I employ
a flat horizontally arranged curved metal spring one end of which is firmly secured
to the underside of the block the other end being jointed to the lower end of the
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page_text: arm or rod carrying the hooks at its upper end. If the block rises from the floor
or ground I employ a vertically arranged spiral spring fastened at its lower end to
the side of the block and at its upper end to the lower end of the said arm or rod.
The spiral spring may be held in position against the side of the block by being
mounted on an internally arranged spindle or guide bar. The hooks are preferably
about four or six inches apart and a curved bar fastened at each of its ends to the
back of each hook forms a handle.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side view and
Fig. 2 a front view of my said improved appliance as fitted to the table part of a
stand or bench.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same detached from the stand or bench.
Fig. 4 is a side view (partly in section) and
Fig. 5 a front view of my said improved appliance as fitted to a block rising from
the floor or ground.
At Figs. 1, 2 and 3 a a are the hooks or fingers secured to the upper forked end
of the vertically arranged rod or arm jointed at a to the free end of the flat
spring fastened at its other end to the underside of the bench or able d
preferably within a slide or bracket e so as to be adjustable lengthwise th rein by
means of a thumbscrew is a finger answering as a stop against the underside
of the spring when the upper part of the rod or arm is removed or
withdrawn from over the table d. The arm or rod is made with a handle v
as shewn.
."
At Figs. 4 and 5 w is a vertically arranged spiral spring fastened at its lower
end by a screw to the block d¹ and at its upper end to an ear k¹ on a slide
carried on the vertical spindle or guide bar m mounted in a bracket
let into a
recess in the side of the block d¹ and fastened thereto by screws o o.
The slide
at its upper end carries another ear p to which is jointed the lower extremity of
the rod or arm b. g' is a finger or stop answering a similar purpose to the finger g
at Figs. 1 and 2.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The joint having been placed on the block d (or d¹) opposite the hook's a a the
said hooks are by means of the handle lifted against the spring k (ow) until
sufficiently high to allow of their being pressed into the side of the joint
and on being released the hooks a a will by the downward pull of the
spring (or w) be brought down so as to enter and firmly hold or grip the joint
in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
In combination with a vertically arranged bar carrying at its upper e suitably
formed hooks the use or employment of a horizontally arranged .t spring
or of a vertically arranged spiral spring arranged and operating substantially
in the manner hereinabove described and shewn in the drawings for the purpose
specified.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per James G. Stokes,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.