AN IMPROVED CARVING FORK."
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick James Baynes, of Holloway Terrace,
Holloway Road, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of AN IMPROVED CARVING FORK."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick James Baynes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd July 1870.
I, FREDERICK JAMES BAYNES, of Holloway Terrace, Holloway Road,
Islington, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CARVING FORK," to be as.
follows:-
The object of the improvement is to afford greater security in the
use of carving forks by rendering the opening and the locking open of
the guard self-acting. For this purpose the guard is formed to turn.
freely at one end on an axis in the stem of the fork, so that by a motion
of the fork with the points of the prongs upwards the disposition of the
guard may be to open, and when opened it is retained by a lever or other
suitable stop acting upon a square or other suitably formed part of the
end of it near the axis thereof.

page_text: When it is desired to release the guard this is readily effected by a
slight action on the stop to release it from the guard when the guard
will lie on the stem. To aid the action of the guard I form it with a
broad outer end, but this may be varied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick James Baynes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
JAMES BAYNES, of Holloway Terrace, Holloway Road, Islington, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Frederick James Baynes, Her special licence,
that I, the said Frederick James Baynes, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick James Baynes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thercafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CARVING FORK," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Frederick James Baynes, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in. the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick James Baynes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
The object of the improvement is to afford greater security in the use

page_text: into the position indicated by Figure 5, the tail piece a² will be brought
opposite an opening c¹ formed for it in the stem c of the fork, and the.
spring g will then act to bear the guard in a downward direction, so that
its tail piece a² will pass through that opening c¹ and the guard will be
retained in the position shown by Figure 5, when it may be desired to
allow the guard to resume the position indicated by Figure 6; this may
be readily effected by pressing the tail piece a² upwards, and at the same
time pressing that part of it slightly towards the handle, when the spring
g will act to cause it to resume the position indicated by Figure 6, and
retain it there until by a similar action on the fork to that described the
guard is again raised.
Figures 8 and 9 shown by two side views. partly in section another
modification of the Invention; and Figure 10 shows by two views the
guard as used in this case. a is the guard, which simply turns upon an
axis of motion 6 in a recess formed for it in the stem c. Figure 8 shows
the position of the guard when in a state of rest, but capable of being
raised into the position indicated by Figure 9 by a jerk as referred to, or
otherwise, when a catch 'in the spring h acting in a notch a" in the
boss of the guard will retain it in that position. The guard is released
to enable it to resume the position indicated by Figure 8 by simply
pressing the knob or upper part 2 of the spring / downwards so as to
release the catch h¹ from the notch a³.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise arrangements or combinations of parts, as
shown and described, as the same may be varied without departing from
the peculiar character of my Invention, but what I claim is, the improved
carving fork whereby the opening and the locking open of the guard is
rendered self-acting, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick James Baynes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-