US28208A - David snedeker - Google Patents

Description

UNITED OFFICE.

DAVID SNEDEKER, OF NEB' YORK, N. Y.

TOOL FCPR OPENING BAR-RELS.

Specification of Letters Fatent No. 28,288, dated May 8, 1860.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, D. SNEDEKER, of No. 562 Broome street, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Implement for Removing Hoops from Barrels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof reference being had to the accompanying orawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, represents a perspective view of the implement put in practice. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, showingthe parts locked up so that if they are applied to a hammer, all the advantages of a hammer may be combined with the hoop drawing device. Fig. 3 shows the device, also applied to a hammer, but placed in a position for drawing out nails or for loosening the middle hoops of a barrel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the three figures.

The nature of this invention consists in applying to a hammer handle, or to a simple bar of wood or iron a slotted and jointed rack-bar with an adjustable claw, the same to be arranged and operated in the manner hereinafter to be described, whereby the implement may be conveniently used for drawing ofii the end hoops of barrels, caslts, &c., or for loosening the middle hoops, drawing out nails and opening the heads of barrels, the parts being so arranged and applied that they may be locked closely to the bar, lever, or hammer handle to whichever they may be applied, when not in immediate use.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invent-ion, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The drawings represent my device applied to a hammer, such as is usually used in opening barrels, but it will be seen by the following description, that the device is not necessarily a part of a hammer, but that it may be applied to a straight bar of wood or iron, that will serve equally as well, although the advantages of a hammer will not be obtained. The invention to be put in practice will most probably be combined with a hammer, as the two articles are intimately connected with the operations of opening or heading up 7 a barrel, and by having them thus combined in one tool, facilitates, and convenience will be obtained in the operation.

A, is an ordinary claw-hammer, and B the handle of the same. To the handle B, and at a suitable distance from the end of the same is screwed a metal plate a, with two peculiarly shaped ears 6, b, cast with this plate, between which is placed the slotted end c, of a rack and claw plate D, which is secured at its slotted end between the jaws or ears b b, by a pin e, that passes through the slot. The plate D, will, by its attachment, have a longitudinal, or end-wise move ment., and a swinging motion.

B is a slotted claw plate with the claw end turned over at right angles, and teeth cutin its end in the usual manner for grasping on holding claws. This plate B, is placed over the rack plate D, and can be moved from end to end of this plate, and fixed at any desirable point intermediate between the ends thereof, by placing the transverse portion f, into the notches in the back of the rack plate D, as clearly shown in Fig. l.

Now in using this implement the end of the hammer, or whatever may be used as a lever is placed on the barrel head, and the claw of plate B', is adjusted on the rack plate D, to the underside of the top hoop of a barrel to be opened, then by pressing on the lever, or hammer handle, a powerful drawing action will be brought to act upon the hoop which may be drawn ofi' in this manner with great ease; then by setting the claw down a notch or two lower on the rack bar D, the next hoop may be removed in the same manner, and so on, five or six hoops may be readily taken from the ends of the barrel,-preserving the same leverage throughout. This device, by its arrangement and combina-tion with a-haminer as shown in the drawings, may be used very conveniently for drawing nails from hoops, or for loosening the middle hoops of a barrel, by placing the parts in the positions shown in Fig. 3, in which case the claw plate B, serves to hold the plate in a Xed, rigid position.

When the hammer is to be used as a hammer only, it is desirable for convenience and handiness that the separate attachment should be confined closely to the handle and to this end the end of plate D is slotted as described, and a spring g, placed under the slotted portion and secured between the ears b, b. The end of the slotted portion has a hook and grooved recess formed in it as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so also have the ears b, b, and thus by placing the plate D in the position shown in Fig. Q, and pressing it slightly forward, the spring combined with the spring g, ears, and groove in the plate D, will receive the portion of claw plate B, and retain the whole fiXedly in place and in the closed state of Fig. 2, when the hammer may be used as any ordinary hammer Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. The combination of pivoted rack-plate D, with the sliding adjustable claw-plate B,

and lever B substantially as and for the purpose set iorth.

2. I also claim making a slot in the end of rack plate D, and in the use of a spring g, arranged between jaws Y), b, as set forth, and the novel construction of the parts whereby they may be looked closely to the handle as 20 described and represented.

DAVID SNEDEKER.

Vitnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, WM. THOMPSON.

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