USD14245S - Design for a handle for spoons and forks - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM ROGERS, OF HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER 8v CO., OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT.

DESIGN FOR A HANDLE FOR SPOONS AND FORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofDesign No. 14,245, dated"`August 28, 1883. Application filed July 13,1883.l Term of patent 7 years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RoGEEs, a citizen 0I" the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented and produced a new and original Design for the Handles of Spoons, Forks, Sto., of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart thereof, in which is represented afront view of a spoon having my newly-designed handle.

The invention relates to a design for the handies of spoons, forks, and like articles of tableservice; and it consistsin the peculiar conguration of the upper partv of the handle, in connection with circles inclosing rosettes embossed thereon, and also in a series of twin leaves strung together and arranged in three rows upon the handle-stem.

To describe the invention more fully, starting from the bowl of the spoon, or from the body of the article, the lower portion, A, of the stem of the handle has its sides slightly concave until the boss a is reached, and from that point to the tip b the sidesc c are straight but divergent lines. Between these sides, and about one-third the distance between the boss a and tip b, there is a transverse panel containing three rosettes, d, inclosed in circles, and between these rosettes and the boss c there is a panel, e, containing twin leaves strung together and arranged in three rows lengthwise of said panel. The tip Z of the handleis formed with five scallops, each containing a circle, or scrolls resembling a circle, and each circle a rosette, b. Immediately above the panel con taining three rosettes, dhthere is embossed upon the handle a central scroll and two halfscrolls, f, and similar scrolls, j", are embossed upon the handlestem adjoining the bowl, and between the scrolls f and the boss a the stem is provided with a longitudinal row of twin leaves intermiXed with small rosettes, all as shown in the accompanying illustration.

NVhat I claim is- The design herein described and shown.

` WILLIAM ROGERS. Vitnesses:

C. H. BROWN, J. A. MARTIN.