IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOONS AND FORKS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOONS AND FORKS."-A communication
from abroad by Wilhelm Conraetz and Fritz Dittler, of Vienna, Austria.
Sealed the 11th September 1863, and dated the 18th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th March 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOONS AND FORKS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of spoons and forks from sheet
metal, as hereafter described. I use an ordinary cutting out or stamping press,
on the bed of which I place matrices, and fit corresponding stamps or dies in
the head, and I change these matrices and stamps according to the progress
of the work or the particular part of the work to be performed.
I first take a frame and adjust therein a matrix in one or more pieces of
the contour of the spoon or fork to be made. I place this on a counter
matrix, in which there is an inclined channel for receiving and leading away
the piece of metal stamped from the sheet, as hereafter explained, and I

page_text: fix the frame on the bed of the press; I fit a stamp or punch corresponding
with the matrix in the head of the press. I place sheet metal on the matrix,
and bring down the stamp or punch, when a blank having the outline of a
spoon or fork is cut or stamped out, which falling through the inclined
channel is removed for the second operation, which consists in turning up, in
a matrix and stamp for the purpose, side pieces between the part for forming
the bowl or prongs and the handle. The third operation consists in turning down
and consolidating the side pieces so raised by another matrix and stamp ; while
the fourth operation consists in hollowing out the part intended for the bowl
or for the prongs by means of a matrix and stamp constructed and shaped
for such purpose. The fifth and last operation for giving the finished shape to
the article is performed in a matrix and stamp prepared for that purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOONS
AND FORKS," (communicated to me from abroad by Wilhelm Conraetz and
Fritz Dittler, of Vienna, Austria, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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

page_text: 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of spoons and forks from sheet
metal, as hereafter described. I use an ordinary cutting out or stamping
press, on the bed of which I place matrices, and fit corresponding stamps or
dies in the head, and I change these matrices and stamps according to the
progress of the work or the particular part of the work to be performed.
I first take a frame and adjust therein a matrix in one or more pieces of
the contour of the spoon or fork to be made. I place this on a counter
matrix in which there is an inclined channel for receiving and leading away
the piece of metal stamped from the sheet, as hereafter explained, and I fix
the frame on the bed of the press. I fit a stamp or punch corresponding
with the matrix in the head of the press. I place sheet metal on the matrix
and bring down the stamp or punch, when a blank having the outline of a
spoon or fork is cut or stamped out, which falling through the inclined
channel is removed for the second operation, which consists in turning up, in
a matrix and stamp for the purpose, side pieces between the part for forming
the bowl or prongs and the handle. The third operation consists in turning
down and consolidating the side pieces so raised by another matrix and stamp;
while the fourth operation consists in hollowing out the part intended for the
bowl or for the prongs by means of a matrix and stamp constructed and shaped
for such purpose. The fifth and last operation for giving the finished shape
.to the article is performed in a matrix and stamp prepared for that purpose.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a longitudinal section, Figure 2
an end view, and Figure 3 a plan of an ordinary cutting out or stamping press
suitable for carrying this Invention into effect. a, Figures 7, 8, and 9 is a
matrix, which I place on a counter matrix b, and fix thereto by screws c, c,
passing through lugs c² of a frame d, Figures 4, 5, and 6. The matrix a may
be in one piece or in two pieces, as seen in Figure 8. The counter matrix b
is formed with an opening e¹ corresponding with the opening e of the
matrix a; the opening e¹ is continued downwards in the form of an inclined
channel (see the section Figure 6) for receiving and leading away the piece
of metal stamped from the sheet, as hereafter explained. I fix the frame
carrying the matrix and counter matrix on the bed ƒ of the press. Figures 1,

page_text: 2, and 3, by means of screws or bolts passing through lugs g, g, Figure 5,
into slots.h of the bed. i is a stamp or punch carrier, shewn detached in
Figures 10, 11, and 12, it is fitted in the head k of the press, and receives in
its dovetail a stamp or punch 1, Figures 13, 14, and 15 of a shape corre-
sponding to the spoon or fork blank to be cut or stamped out. I place sheet
metal on the matrix, and bring down the stamp or punch, when a spoon or
fork blank, as represented at r, Figure 16, is cut or stamped out, and falls
through the inclined channel e¹ into a receptacle placed to receive it. The
next operation is to shape the spoon or fork to the form represented at r¹,
Figure 17, by turning up side pieces o, o. This is performed by substituting
for the matrix a on the bed of the press a matrix m, Figures 18, 19, and 20,
and for the stamp or punch 1, the stamp or punch represented at n, Figures 21,
22, and 23, and by bringing down the stamp or punch as before. The third
operation consists in turning down and consolidating the side pieces o to
obtain the result represented at r³, Figure 24, by another matrix p, Figures
25, 26, and 27, and stamp or punch q, Figures 28, 29, and 30. The three
operations above described are performed in the press Figures 1, 2, and 3, by
simply changing the matrices and stamps. The fourth operation consists in
hollowing out the part intended for the bowl or for the prongs, see³,
Figure 31, by means of a matrix 8, Figures 32, 33, and 34, and stamp or
punch t, Figures 35, 36, and 37. The matrix s is placed on the bed of an
ordinary stamping press, Figure 38, and the stamp t fitted to the rod.u of the
press. The fifth and last operation consists in giving the finished shape to
the article, as represented at 4, Figure 39; for this purpose the matrix s is
replaced by a matrix v, Figures 40 and 41, and the stamp t by a stampa,
Figures 42 and 43.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the manu-
facture of spoons and forks substantially by the means and in manner
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.