US269276A - Table-cutlery - Google Patents

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7 J. D. PRARY.

TABLE GUTLERY. No. 269,276. Patented Dec. 19, 1882 N. FEYERsv Phohillhogmphur, Washington. ac.

UNITED STATES PATIENT ()FFICE.

TABLE-CUTl E RY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,276, datedDecember 19, 1882. Application filed Qctober 2, 1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom 2t may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES D. FRARY, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvementsin Table-Cutlery; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of a knife; Fig. 2, the blank from the blade and tang; Fig. 3,011e ot' the scales detached; Fig; 4, a transverse section through the tang and scales as prepared for introduction into the mold; Fig. 5, a transverse section of the complete handle.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of metal-handled table-cutlery, the object being to produce a strong and durable handle, presenting a white or soft metal surface, which may be readily electroplated, and yet make the handle hollow, so as to avoid the heavy and clumsy handle when cast solid.

Metal handles have been made hollow by striking up scales in sheet metal, soldered togetheuaud secured to the tang; but such construction makes a handle so weak that it is easily jammed and defaced.

My invention, whereby the ditficulties in previous constructions handles of metal are o\"ercome,consistsinmakingthe blade and tang of sheet metal, the tang of substantially the outline of the handle, but somewhat less in extent, then attaching to opposite sides of this flat sheet-steel tang thin struck-up scales, which form a core upon which metal may be cast to give the requisite shape and ornamentation to the handle, as more fully hereinafter described.

I first cut the blank, as seen in Fig. 2, from sheet-steel, the tang A being a continuation of the blade Bthat is, in one and the same piece-and in the usual manner of cutting blades and tan gs from sheet-steel. The blade is ground or struck in the usual manner to give it the required sharp edge, the tang of the same general outline as the finished handle, but less in extent. Upon each side of the fiat tang A, I place a scale, C. These scales are cut from sheet metal, of a shape and size substantially corresponding to the tang, as seen in Fig. 3. These are struck up from the "inside outward to give therequired swell, and are secured upon each side of the tang A, as

ing over the outer surface of the scales so as to form an outer surface, D, as seen in Fig. 5. This outersurface corresponds to the mold prepared for casting the handle, and may be of any desirable shape or ornamentation, with or without the bolster. By this construction the handle is made hollowis strengthened by the tang, so as to prevent bending or breaking. The scales support the soft-metal surface, so as to prevent its being jammed or injured in use, the scales sustaining the outer surface against any blows which may be brought upon it. It is stronger than a cast soft-metal handle or a simple scale handle. It is lighter than the cast-metal handle can be made, because it is hollow, and is very little heavier than the useless struck-up sheet-metal handle. I

I have said that the attachment of the scales to the tang might be any temporary or suitable attachment, as it is only necessary that they shall hold the scales and, tang in their proper relation to each other until after the covering has been cast thereon. When that covering is so cast upon the parts they are firmly held together, irrespective of any connection which may have been previously made between the scales and tang.

I have illustrated the invention as applied to a knife; but it will be readily understood covering surrounding said scales to form the by those skilled in the art that it applies to I [surface of the handle, substantially as deiorks and like articles of table service.

I claim scribed. The herein-described improvementiu table- JAMES D. FRARY. 5 cutlery, consisting in the sheet-metal tang eX- Witnesses:

JOHN E; EARLE,

tending from the blade, the struck up scales upon each side the tang, and a cast-metal JOs. O. EARLE.

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