Zwilling J.a. Henckels Ag

J. a. Henckels Zwillingswerk Aktiengesellschaft

Petra Mangol

A handle on blades of knives, or the like, with a cross section which is substantially elliptical over its entire length and having the longer axis of the ellipse in the plane of the knife blade. The cross section reduces towards both ends of the handle in such a manner that the two ellipse axes of the ellipse cross sections of the offset end of the handle and of the free end of the handle are shortened by approximately the same amount. In this connection the two more narrowly curved ellipse arcs develop two vertex lines extending in longitudinal direction and lying in the plane of the knife blade. Of these lines the vertex line extending in the extension of the back of the knife blade forms a wave crest which, at the offset end of the handle, with reversal of curvature, passes aligned into the extension of the back of the knife blade and which, at the free end, terminates in constant curvature in a handle longitudinal section, the latter being bent off to the longitudinal center axis of the handle, and the opposite vertex line forms a wave crest and a wave valley in such a manner that the wave crest lies opposite the descending section of the opposite wave crest and the wave valley is arranged in the region of the roof of the bent-off longitudinal section of the handle.

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Stuttgart, Germany

Petra Mangol