US1475851A - Floor clamp - Google Patents

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R. E. MORGAN Nov. 27, 1923.

FLO-OR CLAMP Filed Oct. 50, 1922 ATI'ORNEY Patented Nov 27, 1923.

PATENT OFFIE.

RICHARD MORGAN, ORLANDO, FLORIDA.

ZELOOR CLAMP.

Application filed October 30, 1922.

To all who??? it may concern:

Be it known that l, RICHARD E. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orlando. in the county of Orange and State of Florida. have invented new and useful Improvements in Floor Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lever devices for forcing together floor boards to close up cracks there'between and has for its object the provision of a novel floor clamp which will carry out this purpose in a simple and rapid manner.

An important object is the provision of a device of this character which will he inexpensive to manufacture, easy to apply and use, a great time and labor saver and a general improvement in the art.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, The remaining figures are detail views.

Referring more particularly to the drawings I have shown my device as comprising a pair of elongated bars 10 and 11 which are arranged in end to end relation and pivotally or hingedly connected as shown at 12. One bar has its free end carrying a plurality of prongs 13 while the free end of the other "bar is notched as shown at 14c for the accommodation of the tongue on the edge of the endmost one of a series of floor boards to be pressed together. This same end of the bar 11 is formed with a slot 15 which will permit nailing without removing the device.

Mounted upon the bar 10 is a staple 16 with which is engageable a hook 17 on the end of a lever 18 which is engage-able with the pivotal connection of the bars 10 and 11 for applying pressure thereto.

In the use of the device the prongs 13 are engaged with the subfioor A while the notched end 14; of the bar 11 is engaged with the edge of the endmost one of the floor boards B to be pressed together. The point at which the prongs 13 are engaged with Serial No. 597,926.

the subfloor should be such that when the device is engaged with the lloor board the bars 10 and 11 will extend upwardly at an obtuse angle to each other as shown in the drawing. The operator then engages the hook 17 in the staple 16, swings the lever 18 on to the pivot connection 12 and then presses upon the lever with one foot. The result is that the bars 10 and 11 tend to straighten out and this of course results in the application of powerful pressure to the floor boards which will serve to force them together and take up any looseness so that cracks will be eliminated.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention it is of course to be understood that I reserve the right to make such changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts as will not depart from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. A floor clamp of the character described, comprising a pair of hingedly connected bars, one bar terminating in penetrating prongs and the other being formed for engagement with an edge of a floor board, a staple member rising from one bar, and a lever having one end hooked and detachably engaged with said staple, the lever engaging upon the hinge connection of the bars whereby upon the exertion of downward pressure upon the lever the bars will be forced into the same plane.

2. A fioor clamp of the character described comprising a pair of hingedly connected bars, one bar having its free end pro vided with prongs, the other bar having its free end formed with a notch for the ac commodation of the tongue on the edge of a floor board, and lever means for forcing said bars into straightened out position, consisting of a lever carrying a hook, and a retaining member on one bar engageable by the hook whereby the lever may be engaged against said pivot connection and pressed to force the bars into the same plane.

In testimony whereof I afiiix my signature.

RIOHARD E. MORGAN.

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