USD12308S - Design for a spoon and fork handle - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MYRON H. KINSLEY, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY, (LIMITED,) OF LENOX, NEW YORK.

DESIGN FOR A SPOON AND FORK HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 12,308, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed May .2, 1881. Term of patent 7 years.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, MYEON H. KINsLEY, of Wallingford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Design for Spoon and Fork Handles; and I do hereby declare thc following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specication, and represen ts a face view.

This invention relates to a design for spoon and fork handles; and it consists in the ornamentation as shown in the accompanying illustration.

In outline the handle gradually expands from the narrower portion, terminating in a semicircle at the tip. On the surface, at thetip, are two circular beads struck from the tip as a center, with radial points from the first toward the tip, and a border of points below the second bead, andlace-work between the two beads, the Whole representing a tip of lace-work as of spherical shape. Across the face, below the plain portion of the handle, is a. transverse z 5 band of oruam ented lace-work, and above this band a tracery of scroll-work branches from the right and left toward each edge and upward. Below this band is the representation of growing flag, and in their midst is the representa- 3o tion of a sterk standing. Below this and extending onto the narrower portion is a tracery of scroll-work, all as shown in the accompanying illustration.

I claim- The herendescribed design for spoon and fork handle, consisting of the semicircular tip, with the segment-shaped beads and radiating lace-work, transverse ornamented band below, tracery of scroll-work branching from the band 4o to the right and left upward, and the representation oi' growing iiag below, with standing stork, all as shown in the accompanying illustration.

MYRON H. KINSLEY. Witnesses:

G. N. MILLER, HENRY MARTIN.

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