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A Cheese Knob marked GORHAM.

Courtesy of Bert Giulian

.

In Ormand Lissak's 1906

―

Holder for Cheeses

‖

patent (U. S. Patent No. 826,790, July 24, 1906),

there is a screw with a ring at the top which

threads into the top of a cheese ball and is used to

lift the cover and the top of the cheese. Lissak

wrote

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the cover consists of the hollow spherical

segment c, to which is secured or attached lug d,

bored as shown at m, e is a screw of the ordinary

wood-screw or of the

cork-screw

type.