Ceramic handle production by pressing, driving off binder then firing

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Ceramic cutlery and flatware handles of hard porcelain aluminum oxide, silicon carbide or titanium oxide with a center, bore for receiving the tang of the cutlery ox flatware wherein the surface of the handle is provided with a press-molded relief pattern. Handles of this type are obtained by mixing the ceramic raw materials with a thermoplastic plasticizing agent and shaping them into blanks at 90 to 150°C. The blanks are then given their surface profile by means of a press molding device and thereafter fired. Such a process is particularly suitable for oval flatware and cutlery handles and handles having a center bore which is to be equipped with ceramic screw threads.