US1742032A - Hammer - Google Patents

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Dec. 31, 1929.

' s. w. GfiEGERSEN HAMMER Filed April 27 1925 Patented Dec. 31, 1929 y r 1,742,032

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SIEGFRIED W. GREGERSEN, F CROOKS'ION, NEBRASKA HAMMER Application filed April 27, 1925. Serial No. 26,135.

The object of the invention is to provide a are arranged one closer to the poll 6 than the hammer equipped with means for holding in other to accommodate nails of different the hand grasping the hammer, the nail to lengths to permit the point projecting beyond be used and efi'ecting the initial starting of the poll.

the nail as where the hammer is used by a In the use of the device, the initial starting oneshanded person or when the left hand is of the nail is effected by placing it with the used to hold the board or the like while startshank in engagement with the rib and the ing a nail; and to provide a construction of head in engagement with the desired abutthis character in which provision. is made ment, it being retained in this position by the 10 for holding nails of different lengths so that thumb when the head of the hammer is they may be readily started in the board grasped in the hand. A single blow is then with the one hand holding the hammer. sufficient to effect the necessary penetration With this object in view, the invention coninto a board to retain the nail in the board sists in a construction and combination of and following this, the handle of the hammer 15 parts of which a preferred embodiment is il may be grasped in the hand and the nail lustrated in the accompanying drawings, driven home. The lugs 2 and 3 provide the wherein: impact elements of the initial starting and Figure 1 is a side elevational view of ahamthe rib a lateral abutment to maintain the mer constructed in accordance with the inalignment of the nail with the hammer head.

i 20 vention. The invention having been described, what Figure 2 is a top plan view. is claimed as new and useful is:

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view on 1.. A hammer head having lateral nail abutthe plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figment lugs and an adjacent rib for lateral abuture 1. ment with the shank of the nail, the lugs be- 25 Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view on ing laterally spaced and spaced different disthe plane indicated by the line 44 of Figtances from the hammer poll and the rib beure 1. ing arranged on a line intermediate between The hammer head 1, which may be cast' the axial lines of the lugs. or drop forged or machined out of solid 2. A hammer head having lateral nail abut- 0 stock, depending on the grade of tool to be mentlugs and an adjacent rib for lateral abutproduced, is formed with lateral lugs or proment with the shank of the nail, the lugs being jections2 and 3 in the region of the eye of laterally spaced and spaced different disthe head, these lugs or projections constituttances from the hammer poll and the rib being ing abutments for the heads of nails 4 indiarranged on a line intermediate between the cated in dotted lines in Figure 1. The hamaxial lines of the lugs, and the hammer being mer head adjacent the abutments 2 and 3 is recessed adjacent the lugs to provide clearrecessed, as indicated at 5, to provide clearance spaces for nail heads to permit the shanks ance spaces for the nail heads to permit the to lie against the side of the head.

shanks to lie against the head and against the In testimony whereof he affixes his signa- 49 peripheral edge of the poll 6. ture.

Formed integral with the hammer head on SIEGFRIED W. GREGERSEN. the shank 7 of the poll is a lateral rib 8 extending axially of the poll and on a line intermediate between the axial line of the 45 shanks of nails engaging the two abutments,

so that a nail whose head is engaged with the abutment 2 may lie against the under side of the rib while a nail whose head is engaged by the abutment 3 may lie against the upper side of the rib. The abutment lugs 2 and 3

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