Improvements in Knives.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knives.
I, WILHELM HELLER, trading under the style of The Brothers Heller, of
Marienthal, near Schweina, Thüringen, Germany, Manufacturers of Iron and Steel
Goods do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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According to this invention knives having fixed blades such for example as
butchers' knives, slaughtering knives, ham knives, carving knives and fish knives
are constructed with metal handles in place of the wooden handles heretofore
usually employed.
By this means the knives can be produced at less cost and can be more readily
kept clean than those of the ordinary construction. The metal handles may be
provided with roughened outer surfaces and may be formed of suitable metal as for
examples of iron, steel, brass, nickel, German silver, which may be cast and chased;
or they may be stamped out of sheet metal. The handles may be made in one or
two pieces; in the latter case the two pieces are fixed together in any suitable
manner as for example by soldering, rivetting, screwing, bolting, or fusing.
According to one construction, the handle is in two parts, forming cheeks which
bear against the two sides of the blade and receive the tang of the blade between
them. The cheeks are formed with grooves or flutings so as to provide a good
gripping or holding surface, and are furthermore provided with a shoulder which
engages with the corresponding shoulder on the blade of the knife and serves to
prevent the hand from slipping. The blade may be of any desired shape and the
tang thereof may be fixed to the cheeks in any known or suitable way.
Dated this 4th day of October 1892.
W. HELLEK,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knives.
I, WILHELM HELLER, trading under the style of The Brothers Heller, of
Marienthal, near Schweina, Thüringen, Germany, Manufacturers of Iron and Steel
Goods 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 :-
According to this invention knives having fixed blades, such for example as
butchers' knives, slaughtering knives, ham knives, carving knives and fish knives
are constructed with metal handles in place of the wooden handles heretofore
usually employed.
By this means the knives can be produced at less cost and can be more readily
kept clean than those of the ordinary construction. The metal handles may be
provided with roughened outer surfaces and be formed of suitable metal as for
examples, iron, steel, brass, nickel, and German silver which may be cast and
chased; or may be stamped out of sheet metal. The handles may be made in one
or two pieces; in the latter case the two pieces are fixed together in any suitable
manner as for example by soldering, rivetting, screwing, bolting, or brazing.
The accompanying drawings illustrate by way of example a carving knife
according to this invention.
Fig. 1 being a side elevation; and

page_text: The handle in this example is made in two parts forming cheeks that bear
against opposite sides of the rear end of the blade a and receive the tang c of the
blade between them. These cheeks which are secured together in either of the
ways hereinbefore mentioned, are formed with grooves or flutings so as to provide
a good gripping or holding surface, and are each provided with a shoulder e which
engages with the corresponding shoulder at the rear end of the knife blade and
serves to prevent the hand from slipping. The knife blade, may be of any desired
shape and the tang thereof may be fixed to the cheeks in any known or
suitable way.
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 1
claim is :-
A knife of the kind herein referred to constructed with a metallic handle sub-
stantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 14th day of December 1892.
WILHELM HELLER,
By L. W., per F. B.