US1204656A - Clinker-remover. - Google Patents

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E. W. DOOLITTLE. v

CLINKER REMOVER. APPLICATION FILED MAR.1.1916.

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CLINKER-BEMOVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

Appfieation filed March 7, 1916. Serial No. 82,624.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. DOOLITTLE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Clinkenfiemover, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a clinker remover of durable and very simple and inexpensive construction.

A further object is to provide a clinker remover comprising a tube having one end split into halves with one half inclined away from the body of the tube forming a support and guide, with a handle slidably mounted in the tube having gripping members pivoted together at one end, and a separating member suitably mounted for moving the gripping members apart when the handle is moved in one direction.

My invention relates to the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a clinker remover embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows a vertical, transverse, sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows a horizontal, sectional, view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, I have i used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally a tubular member adapted to slide on a bar or the like 11, which bar 11 is extended longitudinally through the tubular member 10. On one end of the bar 11 is formed a handle 12 of suitable form. On the other end of the bar 11 is formed a hook or gripping member 13. The bar 11 is of such length that the tubular member may be longitudinally moved thereon a suflicient distance for operating the gripping members. At its end, adjacent to the hook member 13, the tubular member 10 is split into two halves, and the lower half is inclined away from the body of the tubular member 10 at 14, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. At the points where the walls of the portions 14 leave the body of the tubular member 10, is mounted a cross member 15, which may be secured in position in any suitable way, as for instance, by means of the rearwardly extending arms 16 and the inwardly extending arms 17. Pivotally supported on the bar 11, between the member 15, which is a spreader member, and the handle 12 is what I shall call the rear end of a jaw or gripping member 18, having at its forward end a hook 13, similar to that already described. The jaw 18 is pivoted to the bar 11 in such a way as to allow proper play of the parts.

When the tubular member 10 is drawn to the rearward limit of its movement, toward the handle 12, the shoulder member 15 tends to force the aw 18 outwardly away from the bar 11, as shown in Fig. 1. The members 1 1 form a guide and support forthe jaw 18.

It will'be seen that the portion 14 limits the outward movement of the jaw 18 and also forms a channel which. supports it against lateral swinging movement.

When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, they are ready for use. The forward end of the device may be inserted into a furnace or stove or forge, and by pushing the tubular member 10 forwardly, on the bar 11, the jaw 18 will be brought toward the. body of the bar 11 for gripping between the hooks 13 a clinker or the like which may then be withdrawn from the furnace or stove.

It will readily be seen that my improved device may be put to a great .variety of uses other than that of removing clinkers.

One of its advantages lies in the inexpensiveness of manufacture. It requires only a tube, a fiat bar of metal, a piece of heavy wire or the like and a suitable rivet or bolt.

The tube is slit longitudinally at one end and one half of the tube is then bent away, as clearly shown. The bar may be cut in two parts and the longer part thereof shaped to form the handle 12 and the hook member 13. The other portion of the bar is then shaped at one end to form the hook 13, and at the other end is bent slightly at 19, as shown, and the rivet is inserted. The shorter member may then be entered in any suitable way. The portion 14 forms a cheap, yet a sufiicient guide, and support and limiting device. 7

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of my improved clinker remover, without departing from its essential features and purposes, and it is my intention to cover by this application any such changeswhich may be included within the scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention.

1. In a device of the class described, a

'member, a bar extended through said tube having a handle at one end and a locking member at the other end, a shorter bar pivoted to said first bar at a point between said inclined portion of the tube and the handle to permit proper play of the shorteribar, and a shorter member extending transversely across the tube between said bars.

2. In a device of the class described, a tubular member, having its walls slit longitudinallv at one end and havingvar portion at said end inclined away from the body of the tube and designed to form a guide, and support and limiting member, a

bar extended longitudinally through said tube having a handle at one end and a hook member at the other, a shorter member eX- tended transversely across said tube at the point where the inclined portion leaves the body of the tube, a shorter bar pivoted to said first bar between said shorter member and said handle to permit some play of the shorter bar, said shorter bar having at its outer end a hook member adapted to coact with said first hook member, the parts being so arranged that when said tube is slid in one direction, said hook members are spread apart, and when it is slid in another direction, the hook members are drawn together for grasping a clinker between them.

Des Moines, Iowa, February 8, 1916.

EDNIN W. DOOLITTLE.

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

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