Improvements relating to Carving Forks.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Carving Forks.
I, CHARLES JOB Fooks of 37 Great Union Street, St. Heliers, Jersey, Ironmonger
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Improvements are devised with a view to produce an effectual guard attachment
for carving forks, said improvements being specially adapted to be used for valuable
carving forks of which the ordinary spring guards have been broken or otherwise
deranged.
In carrying out my Invention I insert a pin through the groove formed in the
shank of the fork to which is pivoted a small extension piece or attachment formed at
the upper portion thereof with a longitudinal groove or slot.
To the rear of said
attachment is fitted the guard which is provided with a small knob or projection,
taking into and which is free to slide up and down in said groove or slot before
mentioned.
The guard aforesaid (together with the attachment piece) upon being raised into
position slides or is depressed downwards, the lower end thereof taking into and bearing
against the rear portion of the slot formed in the shank of the fork, thus serving as an
effectual protection to the person using a carving fork to which my improvements
are adapted.
JAMES
STEVENSON.
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPIETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Carving Forks.
I, CHARLES JOB Fooks, of 37 Great Union Street, St. Heliers, Jersey, Ironmonger,
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 :-
Referenco being also had to the accompanying drawing illustrative of my Invention,
in which Figure I is an elevational view of a fork partly in section having my im-
provements adapted thereto, Figures 2 and 3 detached views hereinafter referred to,
and Figure 4 a transverse section on line Z Figure 1.
My Improvements are devised with a view to produce an effective guard attachment
for carving forks, said improvements being specially adapted to be used for valuable
carving forks of which the ordinary spring guards have been broken or otherwise
deranged.
In carrying out my Invention I insert a pin a through the groove 6 formed in
the shank of the fork to which is pivoted a small extension piece or attachment A
shown detached Figure 2 forined at the upper portion thereof with a longitudinal
groove or slot c.
To the rear of said attachment piece A is fitted the guard B shown
detached Figure 3 which is provided with a small projecting knob or button & taking
into, and which is free to slide up and down in said groove or slot a before mentioned.
The guard B aforesaid (together with the attachment piece) upon being raised into
position, slides or is depressed downwards, the lower end thereof taking into and
bearing against the rear portion of the slot & formed in the shank of the fork, thus
serving as an effectual protection to the person using a carving fork to which my
improvements are adapted.

page_text: As a modification to the foregoing arrangement of parts I may, when desired,
reverse the position of the slot c and projection d by forming said groove or slot in
the guard B instead of in the attachment piece A and the projection d in the attach-
ment piece A instead of in the guard B as herein before described and shown. Also,
I may, as an alternative to the above, dispense with the slot cand projection d and
provide the guard at each side with a projecting flange which is turned inwards so as
to embrace the attachment piece aforesaid; or, said projecting flanges may be formed
on the attachment piece and embrace the guard, by which arrangements the guard is
free to slide upon said attachment piece as previously described in reference to the
slot and projection arrangement aforesaid.
Having now particularly described and
tion and in what manner the same is
claim is :-
ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
to be performed, I declare that what I
In carving forks, the employinent of the guard B and projection d in combination
with the attachment piece A and groove or slot c substantially as herein described and
for the purpose specified.
ated on 1st day of July 1889.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.