US86983A

US86983A - Improvement in blanks for cutlery-handles

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Publication number: US86983A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-02-16
Anticipated expiration: 1886-02-16

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ISAAC' G. HCTCHKISS, OF NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT.

Lettefrs Patent No.86,983, dated Eeb'rua/ry IG, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLANKS FOR CUTLERY-HANDLES;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and'makfing part of the same.

To all whom may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC G. Ho'rcHKIss, of Naugatuck, in` the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut,v have invented a new Improvement in Cutting Cutlery-Handle Coverings; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said (hawingsconstitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure I, a perspective view of one ofthe scales completely -covered Figure 2, a' perspective View ofthe scale without the covering;

Figure 3, the covering as prepared by my improvement;

Figure 4, the covering, as heretofore prepared, to be placed upon the scale; and in Figures 5 and 6, perspective views of the two parts of the die for cutting my improvement.

This invention relates` more particularly to covering handles of pocketlcntlery.

Heretofore the blank has been cut into the form seen in iig. 4, for a scale of the form seen in fig. 2. YThe blank thus cut is secured to the scale, then trimmed by hand. This, it will be observed, involves no small degree of labor.

My improvement, whereby the greater' portion of this labor is obviated, consists in cutting the blank, hy dies or other process, into the proper form before placing upon the handle.

To enable others to fully understand my invention, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I rst form a die, A, seen in fig. 5, of the form required for the handle, that is, the form of the scale upon which the handle is to be placed, and provide this with a follower, B,- seen in lig'. 6; then place the material from which the coverings are to be'formed, between the dies, and cut therefrom, as seen in lig. 3.

The covering thus cutis placed upon the handle, and the labor heretofore required in shaping the covering, after it is placed upon the scale, is entirely obvia-ted, the cutting ofthe blanks being comparatively no cost, and the work thus producedis far superior to the old, and the blanks thus cut become an article 0f manufacture, and may be distinct and separate from that of the manufacture yof the metal portion,V it being only necessary for the manufacturers of the coverings to know the shape of the scale upon which the covering is to be placed.

It is not to be understood thatpthe covering is entirely inished by the process claimed, but only shaped so far as it can be as an article of manufacture; that is to say, the covering is made of the exact form required by the manufacturer, so that after the covering is fixed to the scale, the manufacturer has only to finish the surface; whereas, when as heretofore manufactured, that is to say, with the ends square, it is necessary, after such a covering has been xedto the scale, to shave or cut off the extra material, in order to bring the covering to the shape of the scale. This last labor, which is no inconsiderable portion of the labor upon the handle, is,

ISAAC G. HOTCHKISS.

I make Witnesses:

A. J. TrBBrrs, JOHN H. SHUMWAY.

by my improved coverings, entirely avoided, and it is