US1080210A - Nail-puller. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. GILES.

NAIL FULLER. APPLIOATION I'ILED APR. 7, 1913'.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

WITNESSES:

AT OR/VEV i I is. i 4 Q JULIAN A. GILES, 0F DERBY, CONNECTICUT.

NAIL-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

Application filed April 7, 1913. Serial No. 759,415.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIAN A. GILES, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail-Pullers, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates toa new and improved nail puller having for its object, among other things, to provide a device for drawing nails, that will be composed of few parts, economically constructed, readily assembled and manufactured at the minimum cost.

To these, and other ends, my invention consists in the nail puller, having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals ofreference designate like parts in the several figures: Figure l is a view of my improved nail puller; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary View thereof, looking toward the left of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view, taken upon line AB of Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a body member 1, having a head portion 2 at one end, which is slotted at 6, and a laterally projecting fulcrum foot 3. Slidable within the body member is a plunger 4 of the usual design, having the handle 5 at one end thereof.

The jaws 7 are preferably constructed of a single piece of steel and pivotally connected with the head 2, within the slot 6 by the pins 8, and lie side by side with the claw portions 9 ofiset so as to be opposite each other and movable in a plane coincident with the center of the body member. These jaws are provided with anvil portions 10 and stop shoulders 11, the anvil portions be ing so arranged as to lie directly in the path of the plunger t and upon opposite sides of the center of the body member.

In the drawings, I have illustrated in full lines the positions of the jaws when they are closed, with the claws in engagement with the nail, and in Fig. 3, by broken lines, the jaws are illustrated in their relative positions when fully open.

By reciprocation of the plunger within the body member, the end of said plunger will deliver a blow upon the anvil portions of the jaws and drive the claws into the wood, which close upon the nail head in the usual manner. As this blow is delivered upon that point of the jaw most distant from its pivot mounting, and directly over the claw, there is the minimum shock upon the jaw, and the claw is driven in by a direct blow. The jaws are swung open when the claws are placed uponthe surface adjacent to the nail, by the weight of the body member, until the stop shoulder 11 contacts with the pins 8, which thereby limits the further movement of the jaws and holds them in their wide open position. The contact of the anvil portions 10 with the pins 8, limits the downward movement of the said jaws.

In detail the design and construction of my invention may be modified from that herein shown, and I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the eXact construction herein shown and described, but claim all that falls fairly within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body within which said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head portion having a fulcrum foot thereon, and companion jaws pivotally mounted within said head portion having anvil members thereon in the path of said plunger, said anvil members being at a point distant from the pivot mounting of said jaws and directly in line with the claws thereon.

2. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body member within which said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head portion having a fulcrum foot thereon; of companion jaw members pivotally mounted within said head portion,

each of said jaw members having a claw.

portion and an anvil portion upon that side of the center of the body member opposite to said pivot mount-ing.

3. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body member within which said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head portion having a fulcrum foot thereon; of companion jaw members pivotally mounted within said head portion, each of said jaw members having an ofi set claw portion, and an anvil portion, said claw and anvil portions being opposite each other and at that part of said jaw member most dist-ant from its pivot mounting.

4. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body within which said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head portion having a fulcrum foot thereon, and companion jaws pivotally mounted within said head portion and having anvil members thereon in the path of said plunger, said anvil members being at a point distant from the pivot mounting of said jaws and directly in line with the claws thereon;

- and means for limiting the movement of said jaws in both directions upon their pivot mountings.

5. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body member within which a said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head port-ion having a fulcrum foot thereon; of companion jaw members pivotally mounted within said head portion,

each of said jaw members having" claw portion and an anvil portion; and means, as a stop shoulder, for limiting the movement of said jaw upon its pivot mounting.

6. In a nail puller, the combination with a plunger; of a body member within which said plunger is slidable, terminating at one end in a head portion having a fulcrum foot thereon; of companion jaw members pivotally mounted within said head portion, each of said jaw members being preferably constructed of flat metal with an offset claw upon one end thereof, an anvil opposite said claw, and a stop shoulder between said claw and anvil.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JULIAN A. GILES. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. HALL, I. W. REsNIK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. a

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