CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF KNIVES AND FORKS AND OTHER TABLE CUTLERY, AND IN THE ADAPTATION OF SUCH HANDLES THERETO.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Hoyland, of the Firm of Hoyland and
Cavill, of Sheffield, in the County of York, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF KNIVES
AND FORKS AND OTHER TABLE CUTLERY, AND IN THE ADAPTATION OF SUCH
HANDLES THERETO.
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Sealed the 19th March 1875, and dated the 22nd September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Hoyland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd September 1874.
I, SAMUEL HOYLAND, of the Firm of Hoyland and Cavill, of Sheffield,
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES
OF KNIVES AND FORKS AND OTHER TABLE CUTLERY, AND IN THE ADAPTATION OF
SUCH HANDLES THERETO," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of
bandles of knives, forks, and other table cutlery, the handles of which -

page_text: are composed of a metal frame cast on to the tang, and having facings
of ivory, pearl, or other suitable substances.
The illustrative Sheet of Drawing accompanying this Specification
shows three views of a handle adapted to a knife, and constructed
according to my said Invention.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the handle frame A with a blade B. The
frame is cast on the tang and lower part of the blade, which is
notched and furnished with holes into which the metal of the handle
will run so as to form rivets or pins, as shown by dotted lines in the
Figure.
The frame is cast so as to represent in section the shape shown at
Figure 2; this is afterwards filed, and the parts marked bare bevelled
off as shown in Figure 3. Facings or scales C of ivory, pearl, or other
suitable substances are then cut so as to slide between the bevelled parts
of the frame from the widest part of the handle. Cement or other
material is inserted in the frame to form a bed for the facings C, and the
whole is then suitably finished off.
If desired the sides of the frame can also be faced with ivory, pearl,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Samuel Hoyland in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd March 1875..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Samuel
HOYLAND, of the Firm of Hoyland and Cavill, of Sheffield, in the County
of York; send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Hoyland, Her special à
licence that I, the said Samuel Hoyland, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Hoyland, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and

page_text: no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "CERTAIN IM-
3 PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF KNIVES AND FORKS AND OTHER
TABLE CUTLERY, AND IN THE ADAPTATION OF SUCH HANDLES THERETO," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Hoyland, 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 Samuel Hoyland, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, that is to say:-
-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of
handles of knives, forks, and other table cutlery, the handles of which
are composed of a metal frame cast on to the tang, and having facings
of ivory, pearl, or other suitable substances.
And in order to explain my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawing
accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters
of reference_marked thereon, as follows:-

page_text: grooves e, e¹, Figure 5, into which the facings are inserted, or the plate d
may be turned over the said facings as at b.
.
Figure 6 is a section of a handle in which facings f, f', are inlaid on
the edges thereof also.
Figure 7 represents a knife complete, showing my improved handle 5
adapted thereto.
Having now described and set forth the nature of my said Invention
for "Certain Improvements in the Construction of the Handles of Knives
and Forks and other Table Cutlery, and in the Adaptation of such
Handles thereto," I would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare 10
my Invention to consist in, and I claim, constructing handles of knives,
forks, and other table cutlery, and the method of adapting such handles
thereto, substantially as described and represented in the annexed
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hoyland, have hereunto 18
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
SAMUEL HOYLAND.
(L.S.)