USD27203S - Design for a handle for spoons - Google Patents

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09552 0R D 272u3 DESIGN W. C. CODMAN.

HANDLE FOR SPOONS.

No. 27,203. Patented June 15, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM C. CODMAX, ()F PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE GORIIAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DESIGN FOR A HANDLE FOR SPOONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 27,203, dated June 15, 1897. Application filed April 6. 1897. Serial No. 631,023. Term of patent 7 years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAII 0. CODMAN, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented and produced a new and original Design for the Handles of Spoons, Forks, and Similar Artiales; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyzo ing drawings, forming part thereof.

Figure 1 is a view of the front or obverse side of the handle, showing my design connected with the bowl of a spoon in solid lines and indicating the handle as connected with the tines of a fork shown in broken lines. Fig. 2 is aview of the back or reverse side of the handle, showing my design and connected with the bowl of a spoon.

The leading features of the obverse side of the handle consist in a marginal raised bead and the representation of an infant within the upper space of the handle, the clothing extending to the contracted neck of the handle.

The leading feature of the reverse side of the handle consists in a raised marginal bead,

foliatcd at the upper end or blade of the handle, inelosing a panel at the blade and dividing the upper panel from a lou g tapering panel extending over the neck to the foliated end of the handle.

In the drawings, A indicates the upper part or blade of the handle, 13 the neck or narrow part near the lower end of the handle, and C the bowl or other article from which the ban 5 dle extends.

On the obverse side the lower end (I of the handle terminates in a slightly-projecting foliation, and from each side of the said foliation extend the raised marginal heads 6 c upward on each side of the narrow neck and the gradually-widening blade A, terminating in the foliated scrolls f f. Above these the scrolls g g and h inclose the crown end of the handle. 'Within the panel formed by the marginal beads and scrolls is, in flat relief, the representation of an infant, filling the upper part of the blade-panel of the handle. The clothing, also represented in flat relief, fills the panel of the lower part of the blade and extends nearly to the contracted neck 13 of the handle.

On the reverse side of the handle the foliation f forms five branches which extend over the convex portion of the bowl. The raised marginal beads c c extend upward along the edges of the neck and the widening portion of the blade of the handle until they intersect the raised inward and downward curving scrolls m m, which separate the panel 0 from the panel 1). Continuing upward, the raised marginal beads c e have the foliations q q, extending from the beads inward, and termihate in the foliated scrolls i: r, surmounted by the foliated scrolls s s, which ornament the crown end of the reverse side of the handie. \Yhile the outline of the handle is the same for both the obverse and reverse sides, the ornamentations of the two sides are distinctly different.

Having thus described my newly-produced design, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The design for the handle of a spoon, fork or similar article, herein shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

\VILLIAM C. (OIJMAX IVitnesses:

M. F. llLIon, Josnrn A. MILLER, Jr.

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