A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR CUTTING VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Moore Naylor, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
INSTRUMENT FOR CUTTING VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD."
Sealed the 31st October 1854, and dated the 8th May 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Moore Naylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th May 1854.
I, HENRY MOORE NAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT. FOR CUTTING VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD" to be as
follows:-
The said Invention consists of an instrument to be used principally for cutting
off the ends of boiled eggs, but also capable of being used for cutting or slicing
various articles of food. Figure 1 represents my said Invention in plan, and
Figure 2 represents the same in side elevation. It consists of two plates a, b,
hinged together at c. The upper plate a has a nearly hemispherical hollow
elevation d, and the plate 6 has a hole e under the elevation d, and of some-
what larger size; f is a knife or cutter, sliding in the slots g, and urged in
the direction of the arrow, Figure 1, by the springs h; i is a catch, which
engages in the holes k-in the cutter f. In using my Invention for cutting off
the tops, of boiled eggs, the part a is shut down upon the part b, as represented.
in Figure 2, and the instrument is placed upon the egg, as shown.in.the.said
Figure 2. By pressing the knob 1, the catch i is disengaged from the cutter f
and the said cutter, being urged forward by the springs h, cuts off the top of

page_text: the egg. By lifting up the instrument, the separated top of the egg is left
resting upon the lower part of the said egg. My Invention may also be
used for slicing cucumbers, and for other similar purposes. My Invention
may be modified in various ways, which I do not think it necessary here to
describe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Moore Naylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th November 1854...
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
MOORE NAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the 'year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Moore Naylor, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Moore
Naylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Moore Naylor, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED
INSTRUMENT FOR CUTTING VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Moore Naylor, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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_immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Moore Naylor, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention consists of an instrument to be used for cutting off the ends
of boiled eggs, but capable also of being used for cutting or slicing various.
articles of food.
Figure 1 represents my Invention in side elevation; Figure 2 represents
the same in vertical longitudinal section; and Figure 3 represents the same

page_text: The upper
in plan. It consists of two plates a, b, hinged together at c.
plate a has a nearly hemispherical hollow elevation d, and the plate b has
a hole e under the elevation d, and of somewhat larger size; f is a knife
or cutter sliding on the plate b, and urged in the direction of the arrow
(Figure 3) by the springs g, g; h is a catch, which engages in a hole k in the
knife or cutter f. In using my Invention for cutting off the tops of boiled
eggs, the part a is shut down upon the part b, as represented in Figure 2,
and the instrument is placed upon the egg to be cut, as shown in the said
Figure 2. By pressing the knob l, the catch h is disengaged from the knife or
cutter f, and the said knife or cutter being urged forward by the springs g,-g,
cuts off the top of the egg. On lifting up the instrument, the separated top of
the egg is left resting upon the lower part of the said egg. I sometimes modify
my Invention in the manner illustrated in Figures 4 and 5; Figure 4 being a
side elevation, and Figure 5 a plan, of a modification of my Invention. It
resembles the instrument represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3, excepting that
the knife instead of being moved by springs, (Figure 3,) is moved by the
handle m, Figures 4 and 5. The parts marked h, k, and 1, in Figure 3, are
dispensed with, as well as the springs, when my Invention is modified accord-
ing to the method represented in Figures 4 and 5. My Invention may be
used for slicing cucumbers, and for slicing or cutting such other articles of food
as the same is or may be applicable to.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise methods herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but
I claim as my Invention the methods herein described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing, or any modifications of the same, of constructing an
instrument for cutting or slicing various articles of food.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Moore Naylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
HENRY MOORE NAYLOR. (L.S.)