A New Method of Handling Table, Carving, Butcher, Spear, Hunting, Pruning, Bread, Putty, Palette, Shoe, Farrier and every description of Scale-tang Knives, Forks, and Steels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug.,
1897
A New Method of Handling Table, Carving, Butcher, Spear, Hunting,
Pruning, Bread, Putty, Palette, Shoe, Farrier and every description
of Scale-tang Knives, Forks, and Steels.
I, EDWIN MURRAY DICKINSON, Murray Works, 122 & 124 Rockingham Street,
Sheffield, Cutlery Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement with the aid of the accompanying
drawings and reference letters:-
Fig. I illustrates a side view of ordinary blade. The blade shown is a butcher
knife blade but the invention may be applied to every description of scale-tang knives,
forks and steels.
Fig. II illustrates a side view of a butcher knife blade with tang prepared as
required by my invention.
Fig. III represents a plan elevation of one of the two scales forming the complete
handle, in which the groove stops short of the end of the scale.
Fig. IV represents a similar plan elevation of a scale in which the groove is cut
through the entire length of the scale.
Fig. Villustrates a section of handle in which the entire groove is in one scale,
the other scale being ungrooved.
Fig. VI illustrates a section of handle in which each of the two scales is
grooved.
Fig. VII illustrates an edge view of a knife constructed according to my invention,
and shows the portion of the back edge of the tang (not exceeding one-third of the
total length of handle) which in some cases may not be enclosed in the grooves of the
scales and consequently is visible in the finished article.
A new method of handling Table, Carving, Butcher, Spear, Hunting, Pruning,
Bread, Putty, Palette, Shoe, Farrier, and every description of Scale-tang knives,
forks and steels.
(1) I make a blade in the ordinary way by processes of forging or cutting out
from the steel; but instead of making the tang A the same breadth and shape as the
finished handle of the article, as would be done under the ordinary process of making
scale-tang cutlery, I make the tang of blade any convenient breadth or shape (as for
instance the tang B) which may be any breadth narrower than the handle of the
finished article.
(2) I take the tang of blade made as described and punch the required number of
holes in the same way as is done in the ordinary process of hafting scale-tang cutlery,
for the purpose of rivetting on the scales which form the handle.
(3) I take a scale C or scales of wood, bone, ivory, xylonite or any suitable hafting
material, and cut or press in that side of the scale which is to be placed on tang, a
groove D of suitable breadth to fit the prepared tang B. I may either cut or press a
groove in one scale only in which case the groove would be of a depth corresponding
with the thickness of the tang (see sectional drawing of handle in Fig. V), or I may
cut or press a groove in each scale of a depth equal to half the thickness of the tang

page_text: (see sectional drawing of handle in Fig. VI). This groove may be of one uniform
depth, or may be deeper at one side than the other according as the tang of the blade
may be flat or slightly bevelled. In either case the two scales required to form the
handle, when placed together, would enclose a space corresponding with the
dimensions of the tang.
In some patterns the groove will be cut or pressed through the entire length of the
scale or scales (see Fig. IV) and the tang carried through so as to form a through-tang
article, while in other patterns, the groove will stop a little short of the extremity of
the scale furthest from the blade (see Fig. III) but in all cases, whether through-tang
or not, a finished article will be formed in which the edges of the tang E in Fig. VII
are not visible for a distance exceeding one-third of the total length of the
handle.
(4) The blade tang and the scales having been prepared as described, I place the
blade tang B in the groove or grooves D of the scales and rivet or fasten the whole
together by any of the ordinary methods of fastening scale-tang cutlery, and finish
the goods for merchandise in the ordinary way.
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 exclusive right to manufacture Scale-Tang Cutlery by the process of fitting a
flat tang into a groove cut or pressed in one or both of the two separate scales which
form the handle as distinct from the existing processes of grooving or half-slitting
handles which consist of one piece only and not two separate scales.
TJ 10th day of Nov 1907