IMPROVEMENTS IN CARVING FORKS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ARTHUR JOHN JONES, of 163 Balsall Heath Road, Moseley, in the County of
Worcester, Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARVING FORKS" to be as follows:
My Invention relates to an improved construction of guard for Carving Forks
and has for its object to provide a guard which shall be firmly retained in a
vertical or nearly vertical position without the uso of a spring, as guards are now
ordinarily made.
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In carrying my Invention into practice I make the guard of a convenient shape
having at the bottom a lug or wing piece which enters a groove or recess in the
body of the fork. In the lug or wing piece I provide transversely a pivot which
projects on each side of the guard and enters a bayonet" slot in each side of the
The slot and the bottom of the groove or recess are slightly
groove or recess.
inclined to the axial centre line of the fork, and that end of the slot nearest to the
handle turns upwards abruptly almost at right angles to it.
When the guard is closed and out of use it lies against the body of the fork and
the pivot occupies the end of the slot nearer to the handle, but when the guard is
open and in use it occupies the end of the slot nearer the prongs, and it is retained
vertically by the pivot bearing against the top of the slot, and the end of the lug
or wing piece bearing against the bottom of the groove or recess.

page_text: I, ARTHUR JOHN JONES, of 163 Balsall Heath Road, Moseley, in the County of
Worcester, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARVING FORKS" and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
My Invention relates to an improved construction of guard for Carving Forks
and has for its object to provide a guard which shall be firmly retained in a
vertical or nearly vertical position without the use of a spring, as guards are now
ordinarily made.
In carrying my Invention into practice I make the guard of a convenient shape
having at the bottom a lug or wing piece which enters a groove or recess in the
body of the fork. In the lug or wing piece I provide transversely a pivot which
projects on each side of the guard and enters a "bayonet" slot in each side of the
'groove or recess. The slot and the bottom of the groove or recess are slightly
inclined to the axial centre line of the fork, and that end of the slot nearest to the
handle turns upwards abruptly almost at right angles to it.
When the guard is closed and out of use it lies against the body of the fork and
the pivot occupies the end of the slot nearer to the handle, but when the guard is
open and in use it occupies the end of the slot nearer the prongs and it is retained
vertically by the pivot bearing against the top of the slot and the end of the lug
or wing picce bearing against the bottom of the groove or recess.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the annexed sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the corresponding Figures.
Figure 1 represents in elevation a Carving Fork made according to my Invention,
the guard being open and in use. Figure 2 is an elevation and Figure 3 a plan of
the same with the guard closed. Figure 4 is an elevation of the same partly in
section, and Figure 5 a plan, with the guard removed. Figure 6 is a transverse
section at X. X. of Figure 1. Figure 7 shews the guard detached from the fork.
Figure 8 is a modification of the same made slightly curved at the top.
A is the body of the Fork; B', B2, are the prongs; C is the handle and D the
guard having a lug or wing piece d¹ which enters a groove or recess E in the
body A of the Fork: F is a pivot which projects on each side of and is fixed to
the guard D and enters a "bayonet" slot G in cach side of the groove or recess E.
When the guard D is closed and out of use it lies against the body A of the fork
and the pivot F occupies the end of the slot G nearer to the handle C as shewn in
Figures 2 and 3.
When the guard D is open and in use it occupies the end of the slot G nearer
to the prongs B1, B2, and it is retained vertically by the pivot F bearing against
the top of the slot G and the end d² of the lug or wing piece d' bearing against the
bottom of the groove or recess E.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details
herein described and illustrated, as the same may be varied without departing
from the nature of my Invention.

page_text: 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:
The construction and use of Carving Forks with guards, the said Carving Forks
having "bayonet" slots and grooves or recesses, and the said guards having lugs
or wing pieces and transverse pivots, the parts being constructed and operating
substantially as described and illustrated.