AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE-POTS, JUGS, KETTLES, KNIVES, DAGGERS, AND FORKS, OR ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE TO WHICH HANDLES ARE APPLIED
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Russell, of No. 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield,
in the County of York, Britannia Metal Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES FOR TEA AND
COFFEE-POTS, JUGS, KETTLES, KNIVES, DAGGERS, AND FORKS, OR ANY OTHER
DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE TO WHICH HANDLES ARE APPLIED."
Sealed the 15th July 1859, and dated the 23rd February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Russell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
February 1859.
I, SAMUEL RUSSELL, of No. 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Britannia Metal Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES FOR
TEA AND COFFRE-POTS, JUGS, KETTLES, KNIVES, DAGGERS, AND FORKS,. OR ANY OTHER.
DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE TO WHICH HANDLES ARE APPLIED," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the forming of handles of various descrip-
tions from pieces of ivory, cane, bone, horn, or fancy woods, glass, porcelain,
or papier mâché, which would otherwise be comparatively useless. These
pieces I propose turning in the form of rings, round, square, oval, or any other
shape, and stringing them (either of the one material or intermixed) upon a
round, square, hollow, or solid piece of suitable metal,. horn, or other substance

page_text: of the required shape of the handle, they are then firmly secured with cement
or glue, and at each end, either by ferrules, nuts, screws, pins, or solder, or
other suitable means, so as to have the appearance of solid handles, and of
any form or shape.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Russell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
RUSSELL, of No. 12, Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Britannia Metal Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Russell, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Russell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Russell, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE-POTS, JUGS, KETTLES,
KNIVES, DAGGERS, AND FORKS, OR ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE TO WHICH
HANDLES ARE APPLIED," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Samuel Russell, 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 the same to be filed in
thè 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 Samuel Russell, 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:-
This Invention has for its object the forming of handles of various descrip-
tions from pieces of ivory, cane, bone, or fancy woods, glass, porcelain, papier

page_text: mâché, which would otherwise be comparatively useless. These pieces 1
propose turning in the form of rings, round, square, oval, or any other shape,
and stringing them (either of the one material or intermixed) upon a round,
square, bollow, or solid piece of suitable metal, horn, or other substance of the
required shape of the handle; they are then firmly secured with cement or
glue, and at each end, either by ferrules, nuts, screws, pins, or solder or other
suitable means, so as to have the appearance of solid handles, and of any form
or shape, carved or fluted to any design.
For tea-pots, coffee-pots, jugs, and the like, I form a metallic socket on the
upper and lower parts of the pot or jug into which each end of the handle is
to be placed; the upper socket forming an ornamental thumbpiece, while the
lower one gives a finished appearance to the lower part of the handle.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my said Invention of
"An Improvement in the Manufacture of Handles for Tea and Coffee-pots,
Jugs, Kettles, Knives, Daggers, and Forks, or any other Description of
Article to which Handles are applied," and the manner in which the same is
to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as my
Invention, intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent, is the manufacture of handles in the manner and for the purposes
herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof I, the said Samuel Russell, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
25 Witness,
JOHN CLARK,
78, Rock Street, Sheffield.
SAMUEL RUSSELL. (LS.)