USD36121S - Design for a handle for spoons or similar articles - Google Patents

Description

DESIGN.

No. 36,|2l. Patented Oct. 28

' J. E. STRAKER, IR.

HANDLE FOR SPOONS 0R SIMILAR ARTICLES.

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U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH E. STRAKER, JR, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WATSON AND NEWELL COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

DESIGN FOR A HANDLE FOR SPOONS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Design NO. 36,121, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed August 5,1902. Serial No. 118,507. Term of patent '7 years.

To all whom it may concern: inward, so that their backs form the concave Be itknown thatI, JOSEPH E. STRAKER, J12, edges of the handle between the head A and a citizen of the United States, residing at 21 the swell portion B, and theleaf 11 extends in Third street, in the town of Attleboro, in the an inward and upward direction, disappear- 5 county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, ing beneath flower-petals in the head A. The have invented a new, original, and ornamenstems 12 appear from beneath the leaf 11 and, tal Design for the Handle of a Spoon or Simipassing undertheupperportions of theleaves 5o lar Article, of which the following is a speci- 10, terminate in the buds 13, to whose irregufication, reference being had to the accomlar contour conforms the outer and part of IO panying drawings, forming part thereof. the upper edge of the head A. Between the On the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the buds 13 lies a large full-blown poppy-blossom obverse side of the handle, showing my new 14:, facing downward, withits petals partially design; and Fig. 2 the reverse side of the overlappingthe one and disappearing beneath same. the other of the buds 13 and beneath which I5 The leading feature of my design consists disappears said leaf 11. Sui-mounting the in the peculiar and novel outline and ornablossom is the stem 15, which curves upward mentation of the handle, consisting of the and downward, disappearing behind the bloshead A, a swell portion B, (inelosing the plain soni and forming the apex of the handle. On panel 0,) and the shank D and ornamented the reverse side, Fig. 2, just above the swell 20 with an artistic arrangement in relief of the portion 13, the bead E terminates in the instems, leaves, buds, and full-blown blossom ward-folded leaves 4:, whose backs form the of the poppy-plant. Both the obverse and the side and a portion of the top edge of the head reverse sides of the handle have for a bead A. The remaining portion of the top edge of the stem E, composed of the heavy raised the head A conforms to the outline of the 25 outer portion f and the narrow inner line g, small buds 5 and the semicircular apex 6, which stem curves outward at the lower end which is ornamented with the downward of the shank D and terminates in the scrolls pointing leaf 7'. The small buds 5 surmount 7o 3. On the obverse side, Fig. 1, between the the stems 8, which extendin compound curves scrolls 8 and extending in a convex curve down intothe panel C, passingon one side be- 30 across the base of the handle is the leaf 4, beneath the upper part of the leaf 4:.

neath which disappears the upward-curving Having described my invention, what I stem 5, reappearing above it in the form of claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters an upturned bud 6, surmounted by the foli- Patent, isage 7, which extends upward into the narrow The ornamental design for a handle for a 3 5 part of the shank D. About midway of the spoon or similar article substantially as herehandle and at the base of the panel C the in shown and described. leaves 8, springing from the inner edges of In testimony whereof I have affixed mysigthe bead E, cross each other in an upward nature in presence of two witnesses. direction and overlap the bead on the oppo- 40 site side. Near the top of the swell portion JOSEPH STRAKER B the bead E terminates in foliage, of which Witnesses: the leaves 9 curve upward and inward, form- A. SIMMONS, ing an arch over the panel C, the leaves 10 face HUGH A. MACKINNONR.

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