US947103A - Knife. - Google Patents

Description

H. o. HART.

KNIFE. APPLICATION FILED HAY 25, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

PATENT OFFICE.

HUBERT C. HART, .OF UNIONVILLE, CQNNECTICUT.

KNIFE.

Specificationv of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

Application filed May 25, 1909. Serial No. 498,316; Y

provide a sheet metal blank having em-` bossed portions and adapted to be folded on a medial line and to provide a substantially hollow handle.

The invention also comprehends improvements in the details of construction and larrangements of parts which will be Vhereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims. V

In the drawings: Figure l, is a perspective view of my handle attached to a knife.

Fig. 2, is a face view of the improvement showing the application of the invention to a fork, parts being broken away. Fig. 3, 1s a detail of a slight modification. Fig. 4, is a detail view of the blank showing the embossed portions and edge flange preparatory to applying to a knife or fork. Fig. 5, is a detail cross sectional view on line m-m of Fig. l. Fig. 6, is a view of the blank partially bent. Fig. 7, is a detail vertical section. Fig. 8, is a cross section on line g/-g/ of Fig. 7.

' The same numerals refer to like parts' in all figures.

l, indicates a knife blade or a fork, pro-A vided with a tang 2, between which and the blade 1, are shoulders 3. The tang 1s of tapered formation and fits snugly between, the opposite sides of the handle to prevent 'y withdrawal therefrom after the parts are assembled. A

My improved handle comprises `a blank having tapered sides 4,' and rounded ends as at 5. The blank is provided with two longitudinally disposed embossed portions 6--6, and two transversely alined embossed portions 7 7 at or near one end and on three sides the blank is turned up to form a flange 7a. After the blank is embossed as described, shown in Fig. 4, it is bent along a medial line indicated at 8, to receive the tang 2 of the knife blade. The tang 2, is seated in the front Aend of the handle and the ends 9-9 of the flange 7a, after, the blank vis folded, -iits snugly in the shoulders '3'-3 to .rigidly position the blade and the handle.

Press-ure then applied tothe handle and 'i lit is clamped in position as shown ..in--F ig.

l. The handle and bladeY may be provided with openings 10, through which a rivet passesv to further. assist 'in locking the twoA parts together. After the parts are assemf' bled as described the article is tinned or nickel plated, which covers the meeting `edges vofthe handle and the joint between the latterand the knife blade, which fur-` ther servesfas a means of binding the parts" together. A handle, thus constructed is eX- tremely simple in construction, and can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

The longitudinal embossing serves to produce a. rounding `portion to grip the knife or fork and alsoforms a hollow structure. The transverse embossing provides the usual Ishoulder between the knife and the blade,

Vand strengthens the upper part of the lat-l terfas, willk be obvious by reference to the drawing.

In themodication shown in Fig. 3,the blank is provided with a forwardly extending portion so as to fit over the upper edge Y of the blade and adjacent the shoulder l2,

therein which causes a much greater bearing surface andproduces a'stronger connection between the parts.

lVhat ly claim is:

1. A blank tapered longitudinally on its` edges and provided with two spaced apart 'transverse alined embossings, .near vone edge a flange around its edge which abuts to space i the opposite sides of the blank when folded,

and provided with spaced apart embossings to form'- ribs, certain of said ribs being longitudinally disposed and the others arranged at rightangle to the longitudinal ribs.

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3. An article of cutlery` having a body i portion and'provided with shoulders formed between the tang and the body portion, a

handle having two spaced 'sides formed from g a blank bent upon itself, and formed on its upper 4and lower edge with ychannels to receive thel edges of the tang, said handle having adjacent fianges which abut against each other when the handle is clamped onthe A knife to provide one of the'chan'nels, the' ends of the flange and the upper edge of the blank adjacent the upper channel fitting against the shoulders to lock the latter article of cutlery and the body portion together.

4. A knife handle comprising, a blank bent upon itself along a medial line, and formed along said medial line with a channel, the edges at the rear and bottom of the handle being turned inwardly to form a channel which merges into and forms a continuation of the upper channel, the sides of the handle inside the edges of the channels being embossed to provide outwardly eX- tended rounded portions, the front of the handle at the upper edge having an extension to form depending sides to embrace the top and sides of a knife blade, and transverse outwardly extending embossings forming strengthening ribs located between the ends of the side embossings and the extension of the handle, said transverse embossings extending entirely across the sides of the handle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUBERT C. HART.

Witnesses E. C. HEACOX, lV. E. GRAHAM.

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