These knives are peculiarly constructed, and of the best steel, finish and temper. To secure the credit of our invention and enable us to furnish them cheaply, and of standard excellence to bee-keepers, we have had them patented.
In use, if the combs are held upright the caps are carried away from the combs so they never touch them after being cut off. If the combs are laid on a table to uncap, the movable cap-catcher gathers the wide sheet of caps in a roll, and easily carries all that the largest combs contain without dropping one upon the comb after being cut off. The blade is two inches wide; but as only the edge rests on the combs, they uncap the most delicate combs without tearing, and work as easily as if only one-fourth inch wide.
Sent singly, per express, for $1.00, With Movable Cap-catcher, $1.25.
As knives are not carried in the mail, we make 10 per cent, reduction from regular retail rates to clubs and others who send the money for three or more, to be sent in one package. [Finger] Send for circular. Address,
BINGHAM & HETHERINGTON'S, Otsego, Mich.
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 11, 1879.—After a thorough trial of your honey knife here at the College, we pronounce it decidedly superior to any other that we have used, though we have several of the principal knives made in the United States.
A. J. Cook.
Middlefield, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1879.—I have been using your two-inch uncapping knife the past season. For rapidity and ease in operating, they far excel any knife I have ever used. Its shape and beveled edges make it perfect for uncapping uneven and crooked combs. It works equally well with either right or left stroke. We uncapped hundreds of combs in piece boxes, and both my associates and myself have come to the conclusion that they facilitate the labor fully one-half, and are perfection itself, leaving nothing to be desired.