IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE SPOONS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE SPOONS."-A communication from abroad
by Elise de Busson, of Yonkers, New York, United States of
America.
Sealed the 14th July 1871, and dated the 18th January 1871.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 18th January 1871, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the " International Patent Office," Southampton
Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for “IMPROVEMENTS
IN TABLE SPOONS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me,
O my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent
for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it has been

page_text: communicated to me from abroad by Elise de Busson, of Yonkers,
New York, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, E
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing
forming a part of this Specification :-
This Invention relates to a table spoon the bowl of which instead of
extending out in line with its handle is turned off sidewise at an angle 1
of 90 degrees or nearly so with the said handle, the handle being bent
edgewise so as to retain the bowl in the same plane with the handle,
thereby producing a spoon which in eating can be handled with much
more convenience than a spoon of the ordinary construction.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my improved spoon; Figure 2 is a
side view of the same partly in section on the line x, x, Figure 1.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in both of the Figures.
1
A designates the handle of my spoon which connects with the bowl B
as shown in Figure 1, the difference between my spoon and a spoon of 2
the ordinary construction being that the said bowl instead of extending
in the same direction as the handle is turned off sidewise at an angle
of 90 degrees (more or less) with the centre line of the said handle. If
my spoon is put down on a table the bowl and handle are situated in the
same horizontal plane or nearly so, precisely as they would be in a spoon
of the ordinary construction, but a vertical plane passing through the
centre line of the handle of my spoon does not bisect the bowl as it does
in a spoon of the ordinary construction.
In using a spoon having its bowl bent as herein described it is easily
understood that the awkward motion of wrist and elbow when attempting
to comply with the rules of etiquette being avoided the operation of
eating is materially facilitated.
It is obvious that my spoon can be made in a variety of sizes and
styles with the handle more or less bent, and ornamented according to
different designs, and I do not wish to be confined to the precise style
or size shown in the Drawing.
2

page_text: Having thus fully described the nature of the said Invention, its
construction and operation, as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent, I claim, a spoon having its bowl turned off sidewise from
the handle as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
W. J. LOWE.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)