USD26696S - Design for a handle for spoons - Google Patents

Description

DESIGN.

A. MILLER. HANDLE FOR sroom's, 650.

HT). 26,696. Patented Mar.2,189'7.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST MILLER, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE REED & BARTON CORPORATION, OF SAME PLACE.

DESIGN FOR A HANDLE FOR SPOONS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 26,696, dated March 2, 1897.

Application filed January 20, 1897. Serial No. 619,985. Term of patent 14 years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented and produced a new and original Design for Handles for Spoons, Forks, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, showing a part thereof.

Figure l is a front face View of my design applied to the handle of a spoon and showing in dotted lines its application to a fork. Fig. 2 is a back face View of the same.

The leading features of the front of the handle (see Fig. 1) are as follows:

A central convex panel a gradually increases in width toward the end of the handle and extends down the middle line of the shank to the bowl of the spoon or the head of the fork. This panel is surrounded by a raised ornamental border, which is broken into a series of inturned scrolls b e c on the sides of the wider part of the handle, near its end. The two edges of the handle are alike, and from the scrolls b there are extended along the shank and to the bowl of the spoon three beads b b b','while from the scrolls 0 there are extended to the end of the handle four heads 0 c c o, the extreme end being surmounted by a symmetrical raised ornament d, flanked on each side by short scrolls d (1. Where the shank of the handle joins the bowl the central panel is enlarged to form a terminal bulb a, and the marginal beads of the shank terminate in outturned scrolls f f, lying against the margin of the bowl, with an ornamental filling 9 between them.

The leading feature of the back of the handle (see Fig. 2) consists of a concave central panel h, two marginal beads b b at the shank of the handle, and two others 0 c at the upper. end of the handle. An indentation of the margin of the widest portion of the handle occurs, as shown, at e, and a scroll at this point connects the inner and outerbeads. A terminal ornament d corresponds to the one on the face and is flanked on each side withscrolls (1 d running into the inner bead 0. At the junction of the shank with the bowl the concave panelv terminates at h, and has on each side a scroll f, with an ornamental spray or effiorescence 9' between them.

What I claim is 1. In a design for the handles of spoons forks and like articles, thefront face as herein shown and described.

2. In a design for the handles of spoons forks and like articles, the back face as herein shown and described.

3. The design for the handles of spoons forks and like articles consisting of the front face and the back face as herein shown and described.

AUGUST MILLER.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES P. HERSEY, F. L. FISH.

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