US1743029A

US1743029A - Knife guard

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Publication number: US1743029A
Application number: US81045A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ewing Lawrence
Original assignee: JOHN RUSSELL CUTLERY Co
Current assignee: JOHN RUSSELL CUTLERY Co
Priority date: 1926-01-13
Filing date: 1926-01-13
Publication date: 1930-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 1947-01-07

Description

Jan. 7, 1930.

L. EWING KNIFE GUARD Filed Jan. 13, 1926 nventoz Jazz/181266 ZWZ2 %ZZM AZ 6mm,

Patented Jan. 7, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE LAWRENCE EWING, F GREENFIELD, IVIASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN RUSSELL CUTLERY COMPANY, OF TURNER-S FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS KNIFE GUARD Application filed January 13, 1926. Serial No. 81,045.

optionally, to form a unitary part of knives at the time of their manufacture.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a knife guard having securing lugs arranged to embrace the knife handle.

Another object of the invention 1s to provide a combined knife and guard, the latter element being capable of detachment if so desired, leaving the knife intact.

Instances are known in which a separate knife guard is provided, but in such cases the guard is built into the knife at the time of its manufacture, and cannot subsequently be attached to knives originally built without it.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a knife provided with a guard embodying the principles of the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same, a part of the knife blade being broken away.

Figure 3 is a section taken along the line of Figure l viewed in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now in detail to the several figures, the numeral 1 represents the knife blade having a hilt portion 2 lying between the handle pieces 3 and 4 and suitably secured to said handle pieces by means such as the rivets The handle pieces are usually of wood but may be made of any suitable material.

In using knives of this type without guards, particularly in cutting meat the hand and the handle frequently become greasy so that there is great danger of the hand slipping forward should the blade of the knife strike an obstruction, causing the hand to contact with the edge of the blade, with consequent injury. The guard which I provide to 0bviate this risk consists of a shield the fingerengaging portion 6 from which extend the spaced and substantially parallel lugs 7 and 8, the latter being adapted to embrace the handle pieces 3 and 4 as shown in Figure 3 and to be secured thereto by suitable means such as the screws 9, shown in Figure 2. In an illustrative embodiment of my invention the handle is mortised so that the lugs 7 and 8 lie flush with the faces of the handle pieces, but this is not essential, for the lugs may be spaced sufficiently wide to embrace the handle pieces without mortising the latter. Preferably the lugs 7 and 8 are made sufficiently bendable or resilient to be drawn together against the handle pieces by the securing means.

It is apparent that a guard such as has just been described may either be built into the knife at the time of its manufacture, or subsequently attached to almostany form of knife, and that, should it be desired at any time to dispense with the guard it may be removed leaving the knife substantially intact, and the same guard may then be attached to another knife.

The knife guard just described is formed of a substantially T-shapedstrip of sheet metal of which the vertical portion is bent at substantially a right angle to its horizontal portion and curved forwardly from and then rearwardly toward the latter portion to form the finger engaging portion 6. The members of the horizontal portion of such strip are bent in the opposite direction substantially into parallelism to one another on lines substantially parallel to the side edges of the portion 6 to form the lugs 8 and 9. The finger guard therefore not only may b. produced at a very low cost but may be ap plied to any knife handle of which the thickness is equal to or not materially greater than the space between the lugs 8 and 9.

Having described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A knife guard formed of sheet metal, comprising a substantially U-shaped member to embrace a portion of a knife handle said U-shaped member having a portion formed integrally with and extending downwardly and forwardly from its bight and forming a shield and stop for the forefinger of the hand of a user grasping the handle of a knife to which said guard is applied, all of the parts of said guard being of substantially the same thickness.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set y e d- LAWRENCE EWING.