US80062A

US80062A - Improvement in cutlery

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Publication number: US80062A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-07-21
Anticipated expiration: 1885-07-21

Description

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EDWIN DAY, oF oHioAeo,1LLrNors.

IMPROVEMENT lN CUTLERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. n80,062, dated July 21, 1868.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN DAY, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Table-Cutlery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanyingdrawings,makingpartot'this specification, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

My invention consists in a novel method of constructing and securing the handles of cutlery, as hereinafter more fully explained.

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

In the manufacture of tableeutlery three objects are sought to be accomplished. First, to secure the handles in such a mannerthat they will not become loose; second, to leave the fewest possible number of crevices for the accumulation of grease or other foreign substances; and, third,while giving to the article a neat and finished appearance, to do so with the least possible expense. It is to accomplish theseA objects that my invention is intended. To accomplish these results I form the tang a of uniform thickness and width, or nearly so, and with a circular or dovetailed notch in its rear end, as represented in Fig. 1, this being done at the same time the tang is formed by means of a punch or press. The tang, to make a more peri'ect job, may then be tinned either at the point -where the bolster mis formed upon it or over its whole length, as may be preferred, though this operation forms no part of my invention and is not absolutely essential.l I then construct the handle B of a single piece of wood, bone, or other suitable material by cutting in a slit of sufficient size toreceive the tang a, and with shoulders at its front end, as represented at c, Fig. 4. rIhis handle I make somewhat wider than the tang a, and at the rear end of the tan gI form a hole through it vertically, as represented by l in Figsl and 2, this hole being of greater diameter than the slit in which the tang is inserted, so as to prevent the tang from being` drawn out endwise when the metal is poured in around it, as hereinafter explained. I then insert the tang in the handle and place both in a suitable mold, and pour molten metal composed of a suitable alloy into the recesses left for it in the mold and handle, when it iminediately ows along the slit or groove left on v each side of the tang in the handle to the rear end of the tang and around the rear end through the hole l and into the recess c in the end of the tang, thus forming of one solid piece of metal the bolster m, the straps n filling the slit on each side of the tang, and the tie l, with the projection e, filling the recessin the end of the tang, as shown in Fig. 1. By these means I fasten the handle securely to the knife or fork, Without the use ot' any rivets, in such a manner that it is not liable t0 become loosened or detached, and leaving no crevices for the reception or accumulation ot' grease, rust, or other foreign matter so common in cheap cutlery made in the usual way.

By this method of constructing and securing the handles I am enabled to produce a very superior article of cheap cutlery for common use, and while niakingit neat andornamental and far more durable than the ordinary styles, I can at the saine time produce it at a very cheap rate.

I am aware that handles have heretofore been secured by means of molten metal by various plans, and therefore I do not wish to be understood as claiming that broadly and irrespect ive ot' my special method of applying the same, but,

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- The handle B, with the tang a inserted therein, andl having the locking-recess e, or its equivaient, with the molten metal cast on them, so as to form the holsters m, straps a, and the cross bar or tie l, of greater diameter than the slit in which the tang is inserted, all at one operation, substantially as described.

EDWIN DAY.

Witnesses:

W. C, DODGE, P. T. DODGEa