US111939A

US111939A - Improvement in snow-shovel tips

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Publication number: US111939A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-02-21
Anticipated expiration: 1888-02-21

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

EBER HUBBABD, 0F SENECA FALLS, NE YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SNOW-SHOVEL TIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 111,939, dated February 21, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBEE HUBBARD, of Seneca Falls, county of Seneca and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Snow-Shovel Tips; and that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the figures and letters thereon.

The object of my invention is to make a simple, cheap, durable, and easily-applied tip or edge to snow-shovels.

My invention consists of an iron casting, rendered malleable in the usual manner, and made complete in one single piece, constructed in such a manner as to be attached to the wooden part of the shovel without the use of rivets, screws, or nails, or the necessity of boring any part of the same.

The manner of constructing this snow-shovel tip or point is shown in Figure 1, being a perspective view, in which- A is the front or forward edge of the tip. B B B show the langes or arms, more or less in number, as may be found desirable, which are made to clasp the front edge of the wooden port-ion of the shovel, a part on the upper and a part on the under side of the saine. They are to be cast curved, as shown in the cut, for the sake of drawing easily from the molds, and, after being made malleable, can be straightened and brought to the desired position by a single blow in a simple machine made for the purpose. These lianges are provided with points or teeth C C C, set at right an gles to the an ges, which are designed to be driven into the wood of the shovel, all at one blow of a machine made for the purpose, to hold the tip on, thus obvia-ting the necessity for using screws, nails, or rivets.

The base of the tip may be made slightly concave, as shown at D, to admit the wooden end of the shovel, and also to lighten the weight of the casting, but not so much as to weaken it beyond its necessary strength.

Fig. 2 shows a sectional or end view, with the flanges or arms B B and the points or spurs G C in position as cast; and Fig. 3 shows their position after being malleated, straightened, and ready to be applied to the shovel. Fig. 4 shows the tip applied to the shovel.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to have secured by Letters Patent- A m alleable-iron snowshovel tip, made with flan ges or arms furnished with points or spurs designed to be driven into the wooden shovel, for the purpose of holding the ti p to the shovel in such a manner as to obviate the necessity of using nails, screws, bolts, or rivets for that purpose, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth and described.

fitness my hand and seal this 29th day of December, 1870.

EBEE HUBBARD. [L S.|

Witnesses lt. BrcKFonD, WM. CLARK.