US1031001A - Combined nail-puller and hatchet. - Google Patents

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W. F. HOBBS.

COMBINED NAIL FULLER AND HATCHET.

APPLIUATION FILED OGTJO, 1911.

Patented July 2, 1912.

INVENTOR f ATTORNEY UNITED s'rA rns grnnT OFFICE WILLIS F. HOBBS, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRIDGEPORT HARDWARE MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A

CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

COMBINED NAIL-FULLER AND HATCHET.

To all whom it may concern:

lle it known that I, \YILLIS F. Hones, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Combined Nail-Pullers and llatchets, of which thet'ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of nail pullers in which a sliding header hammer is dispensed with and all parts are rigidly secured in place, and is an improvement upon the nail puller described and claimed in my former Letters Patent Number 000,010, dated September 29, 1008.

I have noted a requirement of the trade for a tool adapted for general use in opening boxes, barrels, etc., and for closing them as well, that shall comprise an etiective nail puller for starting lids and for drawing nails, a hammer for driving nails and a hatchet for cutting hoops and splitting and breaking boards, work of such character being frequently required that cannot be pertormed with a hammer, a further requircmeut being that the tool shall be rigid and strong and able to stand the hardest kind of usage and that it shall be so simple in construction and economical in cost as to enable it to be retailed at a very low price thereby placing it within the reach of all, especially small retail dealers and small shippers.

\Vith these and other objects in view l have devised the novel combined nail puller,

hammer and hatchetof which the follow 1t) denotes a bar ot metal at one end of which is a claw 11 formed by flattening the bar, tapering the opposite sides to a dull edge, tapering the edges thereof outward and providing the usual V-shaped opening indicated by 12. For convenience in use,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, 1911.

Patented July 2, 1912.

Serial No. 653,903.

the claw is preferably curved slightly as shown in Fig. 2. Back of the claw an on the under side of the bar when in position for use as a nail puller is a. hammer 13 which also serves as a fulcrum when draw ing nails. This hammer is a forged block which is provided with a shank, preferably elongated in the direction of the length of the bar, engaging a correspondingly shaped opening in the bar, the shank serving as a rivet tor the hammer and being headed down upon the upper side of the bar and the elongation of the shank preventing the hammer from turning or loose. 4

ll denotes a hatchet parallel with the bar and at right angles to the hammer which is forged from one end of a piece of steel and the blade bent. at right angles to the axis ot the piece, the remainder of which cornprises a shank 15 which is permanently secared to the bar longitudinally thereof by rivets 16, as in Fig. 3, or is detachably secured thereto by bolts-20, as in Fig. 2. Either mode of construction enables me to use a high grade of steel for the hatchet and the latter mode to conveniently remove a hatchet and replace it with a new one should it become broken, it being under stood of course that there is little danger of breaking or seriously injuring either the claw or the halmner, but that the hatchet is liable to be broken or injured like all edged tools. In practice I that it a matte; of considerable importance to be able to remove a broken hatchet and replace it with a new one at tritling expense and with only the removal and replacing of two bolts.

ln mamifacturing, the working parts are first tempered in the usual manner and afterward the temper is drawn by heating to the proper degreee. The handle is preferably formed by strips of wood, indicated by t? and t8, lying on opposite sides of the bar, said strips being rigidly secured to the bar by rivets it). The forward end of wooden strip 17' is shown as abutting against the rear end of the shank of the hatchet and the forward end of strip 18is shown as tapered down to the plane of the bar. The edges of strips 17 and 18 are preferably rounded for convenience in handling. Any style of handle may be used,

from becoming although I preferably use a handle formed than could be produced if made of solid 20 from two strips of wood riveted to the bar. steel. 5 p 1 The ordinary operation in opening a box Having thus described my invention I is as follows: The cover is started by forcclaim:

5; ing the claw between the cover and the top A hatchet attachment for a claw bar com- ,of the box and prying the cover 11 ward. prising an approximately triangular hatchet 25 he cover is then struck a blow with the blade provided with an integral flat shank hammer which drives the cover downward, disposed at right angles with relation to leaving the heads of the nails above the said blade, in combination with a claw bar 0 cover. The claw is then inserted under the having a flat shank to which the hatchet heads of the nails, the shanks of the nails shank is attached immediately to the rear 30 lying in the V-shaped opening, and the nails of the claw notch of said claw bar.- are drawn by pressing downward upon the In testimony whereof I aflix my signature handle, the hammerf being so iglcated as to in presence of two witnesses.

15 serve as a ositive ulcrum. e stri s of wood whicl i cover the sides of the hgndle WILLIS HOBBS add stiffness and rigidity to the tool and Witnesses: I

make it possible to provide a strong and A. M. WOOSTER, serviceable tool of very much lighter weight S. V. ATI-IERTON.

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