USD7361S - Design for spoon and fork handles - Google Patents

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BALAWAY H Spoon and Fork ar a-a es Patented Apr 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN II. GALAYVAY, OF NEW YORK, X. Y.

DESIGN FOR SPOON AND FORK HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Des gn No. 7,361, dated April 7, 1874 application filed March 14, 1874. [Term of Patent 7 years To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN H. GALAWAY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and original Design for Spoon and Fork Handles; aml 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, aml exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make the same, reference being had to the aeeom 'ianying drawings forming part of this specification, in which drawings- Figure 1 represents a face View of a spoonhandle ornamented and formed according to my design. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

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In the drawing, the letter A designates the handle of a spoon or fork, said handle being composed of two principal sections, VlZ., the finger-piece a and the shank I). Said fingerpieee joins the shank by converging curves 0, and its outer end is flarin g and provided with corners d, between which is situated an arabesque, c. A flat bead, f, extends along the edge of the finger-piece, both sides of which are ornamented alike, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The shank 11 appears to overlap the inner end of the tingerpiece by a flange, g, which is ornamented, as shown, and flat beads I: extend along both edges of said shank and round the flange g. ietween these beads is formed, on the upper side of the shank. a ridge, 1, which terminates, at its junction with the bowl ii, in an arabesque, j. 0n the under side of the shank is formed a depression, 7.", in place 01' the ridge 1', and the beads It on the edges of the shank terminate in scrolls l and leaves in.

\Vhat 1 claim as new, and desire to st euro by Letters Patent, is

l. The design of the finger-piece a, with curves 0. corners 1?, bead f, and arabesqne 0, as shown and described.

2. The design of the shank I, with its point ed flanges g, fiat beads 11, ridge 1', and depression 7:, as shown and described.

3. The design for a spoon or fork handle composed of a finger-piece, a, and shank I1, both being ornamented as shown and de scribed.

JOHN H. GALAWAY.

W'itnesses:

A. A. INGRAIIAM, CHAS. WAnLERs.

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