Improvements in the Manufacture of Fish Knives and Forks, Table Knives and Forks, and other like Knives and Forks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fish Knives and Forks, Table
Knives and Forks, and other like Knives and Forks.
We ELKINGTON & Co. LIMITED, of Newhall Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Silversmiths and Electro Platers and JOHN ALFRED
BROOKS, of Court Lane, Erdington in the County of Warwick Manager of
Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention has reference to such fish knives and forks, table knives and
forks and other like knives and forks as have metallic handles, the greater part
of the handle being made in one piece with the blade of the knife or prongs of
the fork and completed by a separate piece soldered to the partly made handle.
The said invention consists of the method hereinafter described of manufacturing
knives and forks of the kind referred to, whereby the ordinary bolster at the
junction of the blade or prongs and handle is dispensed with; the handle is
very strong and the manufacture of the knives and forks is simplified and
economized.
For convenience of description we will describe the said invention as applied
to a fish knife of German silver.
In a fish knife made according to this invention the half of the handle nearest
the blade is made solid and tapering while the distant half is made hollow and
in two pieces, one portion of the hollow half being made in one piece with the
solid tapering half and the blade and completed by a separate piece.
In making a knife of this kind, we take a strip of sheet German silver and
reduce by rolling the parts on either side the middle part, portions of the thick
middle part left unoperated upon being cut away on either side so as to form a
neck part between the reduced end parts. From these reduced or thinned end
parts, the blade and a portion of the hollow part of the handle are made and from
the thick neck part the solid portion of the handle is made. By rolling and
cutting out, one of the reduced end parts is formed into the blade of the knife
and by stamping in dies the middle thick neck part is formed into the tapering half
way solid portion of the handle adjacent to the blade, the said half of the
handle being without a bolster at its junction with the blade. The other reduced
end part of the rolled blank is at the same time troughed into one half of the
distant or hollow portion of the handle.
By soldering the edges of a separate trough piece to the edges of the trough
piece last described the handle is completed, the handle being partly solid and
partly hollow, the solid part of the handle adjacent to the blade extending to
about the middle of the handle and the part beyond the middle being hollow.
Dated this 7th day of June 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Fish Knives and Forks, Table
Knives and Forks, and other like Knives and Forks.
We, ELKINGTON & Co. LIMITED, of Newhall Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Silversmiths and Electro Platers and JOHN ALFRED
BROOKS, of Court Lane Erdington, in the County of Warwick Manager of
Works 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 :-
The said invention has reference to such fish knives and forks, table knives and
forks, and other like knives and forks as have metallic handles, the greater part of
the handle being made in one piece with the blade of the knife or prongs of the
fork and completed by a separate piece soldered to the partly made handle.
The said invention consists of the method hereinafter described of manufacturing
knives and forks of the kind referred to, whereby the ordinary bolster at the
junction of the blade or prongs and handle is dispensed with; the handle is very
strong and the manufacture of the knives and forks is simplified and economized.
For convenience of description we will describe the said invention as applied to
a fish knife of German silver.
In a fish knife made according to this invention the half of the handle nearest
the blade is made solid and tapering while the distant half is made hollow and
in two pieces; one portion of the hollow half being made in one piece with the
solid tapering half of the blade and completed by a separate piece.
In making a knife of this kind, we take a strip of sheet German silver and
reduce by rolling the parts on either side the middle part, portions of the thick
middle part left unoperated upon being cut away on either side so as to form a neck
part between the reduced end parts. From these reduced or thinned end parts,
the blade and a portion of the hollow part of the handle are made and from the
thick neck part the solid portion of the handle is made. By rolling and cutting
out, one of the reduced end parts is formed into the blade of the knife and by
stamping in dies the middle thick neck part is formed into the tapering half way
solid portion of the handle adjacent to the blade, the said half of the handle
being without a bolster at its junction with the blade. The other reduced end
part of the rolled blank is at the same time troughed into one half of the distant
or hollow portion of the handle.
By soldering the edges of a separate trough piece to the edges of the trough
piece last described the handle is completed, the handle being partly solid and
partly hollow, the solid part of the handle adjacent to the blade extending to
about the middle of the handle and the part beyond the middle being hollow.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing
the manner in which the said invention is to be performed.
Figure represents in front elevation; Figure 2 in side elevation, partly in
vertical section and Figure 3 in cross section through the hollow part of the handle,
a fish knife of German silver made according to this invention;
Figure 4 represents a fork of the same kind made according to this invention.
The half of the handle of the fish knife and fork marked a, situated nearest
the blade or prongs c is made solid and tapering while the distant half of the
handle is made hollow and in two pieces marked respectively d and e the portion d
of the hollow half of the handle being made in one piece with the solid tapering
half a of the handle and with the blade or prongs c and completed by soldering
to its edges a separate piece e. The handle thus formed is without a bolster at the
junction of the blade or prongs with the handle, the handle being partly solid and
partly hollow as represented

page_text: In making a fish knife or fork of this kind we proceed as follows;-We take a
strip of sheet German silver and by rolling give it the sectional form represented
in front elevation and edge view in Figure 5, the said strip having a thin end
portion, and by a cutting and bending operation we convert the said strip into the
blank represented in front elevation and edge view in Figure 6. This blank has a
thick middle neck part a² between the thick end part 2 and the thinner end part d².
In the drawing the neck part a² and the end part 6 are represented of the same
thickness of metal, but the end part b² may be rolled thinner thau the neck part a².
From the thick end part 2 of the blank, the blade 6 of the knife or prongs c of the
fork is or are made in the ordinary way. By a stamping operation effected in dies
the thick neck part a² of the blank Figure 6 is formed into the tapering half way
solid portion a of the handle adjoining the blade or prongs and the thin part d² of
the blank Figure 6 is troughed or shaped so as to form one half d of the distant
or hollow part of the handle. The blank Figure 6 after it has been thus operated
upon in dies so as to partly form the handle of the knife or fork is represented in
longitudinal section and cross section in Figure 7. After the edges of the hollow
portion of the handle have been trimmed it is ready to receive the separate
trough piece e represented in elevation and section in Figure 8. The separate
trough piece e is made by stamping and corresponds in shape and size with the half
portion d of the hollow part of the handle made in one piece with the solid part a
of the handle and the blade or prongs. By soldering the edges of the separate
trough piece e, Figure 8, to the edges of the trough piece d of the hollow part of
the handle, the handle is completed as represented in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
handle is finished and the blade or prongs made in the ordinary way.
The
From the description herein before given with reference to the accompanying
drawing, it will be understood that the handle is practically made in one piece with
the blade or prongs, the handle being partly solid and partly hollow thereby
reducing the weight of the handle without materially reducing its strength.
We apply the said improvements to the manufacture of the metallic handles of
table knives and forks and other like knives and forks substantially in the manner
hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect to a fish knife and fork.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention ;-
The improvements in the manufacture of fish knives and forks, table knives and
forks and other like knives and forks having metallic handles herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, making the metallic
handle of the knife or fork, partly solid and partly hollow, the solid part being
taper and joining at its smaller end the blade of the knife or the prongs of the fork
and extending to about the middle of the handle, and the other or hollow part
being made of two trough portions, one portion being made in one piece with the
solid tapering part and the other portion being made separately and soldered to the
first named portion, the solid part of the handle being without a bolster at its.
junction with the blade of the knife or the prongs of the fork substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated the Ninth day of February 1904
ELKINGTON & CO., LIMITED,
By HERBERT F. ÉLKINGTON, Director.
JOHN ALFRED BROOKS.