US1660836A - Combined claw hammer and wrench - Google Patents

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Feb. 28, 1928; -,660,$36

- L. GILKS COMBINED CLAW HAMI VIER AND WRENCH Filed March 4, 1924- lll/Alilllllllll 1/177/ ilk .' and Patented Feb. 28, 1928.

LENOARD GILKS, or BRIDGEWATEB CENTER, MAINE.

COMBINED CLAW HAMMER AND WRENCH.

Application filed March 4, 1924. Serial No. 696,802.

This invention relates to hammers,-and its primary object is the provision of a tool of this character having sockets in the lateral sides of its head, and having acurved surface extending from the inner ends of its claw to the outer end of its head, the sockets permitting the hammer to be used as a wrench, and the curved surface forming a fulcrum upon which the hammer is adapted to be rocked when extracting nails.

The invention consists in the constructlon, combination, and arrangement of parts here inafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accon'ipanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a View in side elevation of a hammer constructed in accordance with my invention, only a portion of the handle being shown;

Fig. 2 is a similar view looking at the opposite side of the hammer;

Fig. 3 is a view in end elevation of the hammer; V I

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the hammer;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 55 of Fig. 1.

' Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates the head, 2 the impact shank, 3 the eye, 4 the claw, and 5 the handle of a hammer constructed in accordance with my invention; The outer end 6 of the head 1 is fiat, and the impact shank 2 is offset inwardly from this end of the head. The claw 4 extends from the outer end 6 of the head 1 to and beyond a plane coincident with the inner end of the head, and the slot 7 of the claw terminates short of the head. The outer or that side of the claw 4 which extends from the inner end thereof to the outer end 6 of the head 1, is curved as at 8 to provide, in conjunction with said end of the head, a fulcrum upon which the hammer is adapted to be rocked when extracting nails. As the impactshank 2 is offset inwardly from the outer end 6 of the head 1, and as the outer curved side 8 of the claw 4 is of considerable length, due to the fact that it extends from the inner end of the claw to the outer end of the head, the fulcrum is of such a character that comparatively long nails may be extracted without the aid of blocks or other articles now employed to provide a fulcrum of suflicient altitude to extract nails of considerable length.

The head 1 is provided in one of its sides with a hexagonal socket 9 and in its other side with a square socket 10, and the handle inner sides so as to limit thedistance that a nut may enter either of the sockets.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it should be apparent that I have provided a tool that may be used either as a hammer, a nail extracter, or a wrench, that the tool is simple, durable, and efficient, and that the tool may be manufacturedand sold at a comparatively low cost.

It should be understood that the drawing is merely illustrative and does not pretend to give exact proportions. F urthermore, the said drawing is illustrative of a preferred construction, it being my expectation that various changes and modifications maybe made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

What is claimed is A hammer comprising a head'having an eye extending longitudinally therethrough and provided in its lateral sides with polygonal sockets, the sockets communicating with the eye and being of different contours for the reception of nuts, and a handle having an end portion thereof positioned in the eye and adapted to limit the insertion of the nuts into the sockets, and the handle bein provided with an opening registering wit and of less width than the sockets and adapted to receive the projecting ends'of the bolts carrying the. nuts.

Intestimony whereof I afix my signature.

LENOARD GILKS.

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