US1137663A - Claw-hammer. - Google Patents

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G. W. BENTON.

CLAW HAMMER.

APPLICATION FILED 056.27. 1913.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

GEORGE V7. BENTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLAW-HAMMER.

Application filed December 27, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BENTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Claw-Hammers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hammers and has for an object to provide a hammer of the high nailing type with improved means for holding a plurality of sizes of nails at the proper angle for such high nailing.

In hammers heretofore provided with the high nailing feature, provision is made for accommodating only a single size of nail or nails of relative sizes at the proper angle, while nails of larger or smaller sizes are held at the improper angle for such high nailing.

In the present invention, a claw hammer is employed of the usual and ordinary type having the claws describing an angle relative to each other, and ribs are provided along the socket of the hammer for holding nails in diiferent positions to correspond to the sizes and lengths of the nails.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view of a hammer in side elevation showing three nails held in position for such high nailing. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the hammer taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved hammer which forms the subject matter of this application, comprises a driving head 10, claws 11, and socket 12, all of substantially the usual and ordinary type and to head is applied a handle 13 as is customary. Along the side of the shank 12 adjacent the claws, a plurality of ribs or ridges 1 1, 15 and 16 are provided, such ribs being here shown as three in number, it being understood however that the number of the ribs is immaterial to the present in vention.

As is well known, the claws 11 converge Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

Serial No. 809,017.

toward the hammer head so that the small nail as shown at 17 is received adjacent the angle between such claws. For such small nail, as for instance a finishing nail, a rib is provided near the angle of the claws with the socket, such rib being illustrated as 16. For nails of larger sizes, a rib 15 is employed below the rib 16, with the head of such nail as 18 bearing upon such rib; while for still larger nails, as 19, a still lower rib let is employed. In other words, a plurality of ribs are spaced throughout the length of the front face of the socket, the number of ribs depending exclusively upon the length of the socket 12 and the length of the claws 11 and may be varied according to the size of the hammer and the size of the nails with which the hammer is to be employed. These ribs divide the face of the socket into a number of seats each of a size slightly larger than the diameter of the nail head which is to rest against it when the shank of that nail binds between the adjacent faces of the claws as shown. Said claws converge on such lines that they bind said shank, whatever its size, just at a time when the head rests squarely on the corresponding seat. The width of each seat is the same as that of the face of the socketits height is the distance between two ribs, and the latter are spaced as shown in order to allow the nail head to be drawn freely out of place after the nail has been driven and the hammer head is turned slightly to disengage the shank of the nail from the claws. In putting a nail into place, its shank is passed between the claws until it bites or binds therein, and then the nail is pressed toward the socket until its head passes between two of the ribs and rests against its proper seat which is in such position that the nail then stands substantially at right angles to the socket and ready for high driving.

It is, of course, intended to employ only one nail at a time in the claws and the three nails as shown at Fig. 1 are never employed at the same time but either may be employed as occasion may make necessary or desirable.

I claim:

1. A hammer head embodying a socket, curved claws projecting therefrom and having their inner faces converging toward the socket, and ribs on the face of the socket producing interposed seats decreasing in size toward said claws, the seats proportioned and disposed to receive the heads of nails Whose shanks are clamped between the claws at points opposite said seats respectively.

2. A hammer head embodying a socket, curved claws projecting therefrom and having their inner faces converging toward the socket, and a series of ribs across the face of the socket spaced from each other by increasing distances as they recede from said claws, whereby difierent sized seats are Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

formed on the socket between the ribs, each seat being of such height that it loosely receives the head of a nail whose shank is of 15 GEORGE W. BENTON. Witnesses L. L. MORRILL, JOHN L. FLETCHER.

Washington, I). G.

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