IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES, TIPS, AND BOLSTERS USED IN CUTLERY, AND IN SECURING HANDLES OR SCALES THEREIN OR THERETO
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Bunting, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Cutler, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES, TIPS, AND BOLSTERS
USED IN CUTLERY, AND IN SECURING HANDLES OR SCALES THEREIN OR
THERETO."
Sealed the 13th November 1863, and dated the 19th May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Bunting at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th May 1863.
I, RICHARD BUNTING, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Cutler, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES, TIPS,
AND BOLSTERS USED IN CUTLERY, AND IN SECURING HANDLES OR SCALES THEREIN OR
THERETO," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing the frames for knife handles of metal
with the opening or openings for receiving a scale of ivory or other material
formed with inclined sides and ends so as to constitute a smaller aperture on
the outside than on the inside of the frame, I then incline the sides and ends
of the ivory or other scalo to be inserted in the frame, to correspond with the
inclines in the sides of the aperture in the frame, and thus secure the scale
from getting out of the frame; or where the scale to be inserted is capable of
being rendered plastic I run or press it into the frame from the inside.
Two frames are united to constitute one handle. I construct the tips and
bolsters with dovetails or double inclines and secure the horn or other material

page_text: for forming knife handles or scales when such material is capable of being ren-
dered plastic, by running and pressing it while warm into and between the tips
and bolsters. On cooling the horn and tips and bolsters, both or either become
inseparably connected; or where the scale is not capable of being pressed I
simply dovetail the bolsters or tips, and correspondingly shape the scale, and
apply it from the inside.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Bunting in the Great Seal Patent Oflice on the
19th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BUNTING, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Cutler, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of May, 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 Bunting, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Bunting, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Bunting, my exccutors, 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 FRAMES, TIPS, AND BOLSTERS USED IN CUTLERY, AND IN SECURING
HANDLES OR SCALES THEREIN OR THERETO," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Bunting, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Bunting, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the samo 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:-
My Invention consists in constructing the frames for knife handles of metal

page_text: with the opening or openings for receiving a scale of ivory or other material
formed with inclined sides and ends, so as to constitute a smaller aperture on
the outside than on the inside of the frame. I then incline the sides and ends
of the ivory or other scale to be inserted in the frame to correspond with the
inclines in the sides of the aperture in the frame, and thus secure the scale
from getting out of the frame; or where the scale to be inserted is capable
of being rendered plastic, I run or press it into the frame from the inside.
Two frames are united to constitute one handle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a top view of one of the frames
of a pocket knife handle constructed according to my Invention; Figures 2
and 3 are sections through the lines a, b, and c, d, respectively of Figure 1.
The sides and ends of the opening in the frame for receiving the scale are
inclined as shewn, I then as before stated incline the sides and ends of the scale
to correspond with the inclined sides and ends of the opening in the frame, so
that when the scale is inserted in the frame it is secured from getting out; or
when the scale is of a material capable of being rendered plastic, I run or
press it into the frame from the inside. Figures 4, 5, and 6 are corresponding
views to Figures 1, 2, and 3, of a frame hollowed out underneath near its ends
as shewn.
I construct the tips and bolsters with dovetails or double inclines, and
secure the horn or other material for forming knife handles or scales, when
such material is capable of being rendered plastic, by running and pressing it
while warm into and between the tips and bolsters; on cooling, the horn and
tips and bolsters both, or either, become inseparably connected. Or, where the
scale is not capable of being pressed I simply dovetail the bolsters or tips and
correspondingly shape the scale and apply it from the inside.
Figure 7 is a top view of a knife handle with tho tip a and bolster b dove-
tailed to the scale c, as just described.
The handles may be ornamented with colored glass or otherwise.
Although I have described my Invention more particularly as applied
to pocket knives, yet it equally applies to table knives, forks, and cutlery
generally.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, constructing the frames of the handles of knives and other cutlery
with the opening or openings for receiving a scale of ivory, horn, or other
material formed with inclined sides and ends, so as to constitute a smaller
aperture on the outside than on the inside of the frame, whereby the scale
is secured from getting out of the frame, as herein-before described.

page_text: Second, constructing tips and bolsters with dovetails as herein-before
described.
Third, securing scales or handles, when made of horn or other material
capable of being rendered plastic, by running or pressing such material into
the frame from the inside, or into and between the tips and bolsters, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Bunting, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
RICHARD BUNTING. (L.s.)