US182068A - Improvement in shovels - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

JOHN GRAVES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGrNOB,l TO ROBERT SEAMAN S AND HENRY W.' SHEPARD. A l

lIMPROVEMENT IN SHOVELS.

Speciication forming part of Letters VPatent No. 182,068, dated September 12, 1876; application led August 1`1, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GRAVES, of the city, county, and State ot' New York, have invented an Improved Shovel, ot' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying' drawing, and the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of thisspecication, in whichy Figure4 l is a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line m a', Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank.

The object of my present invention is to construct a tire-shovel out of a single piece of l sheet metal.

The nature of my invention consists in striking up or stamping out ofa single piece of sheet metal a tire-shovel, the handle of which extends immediately from the plane or plate of the body of the shovel, the surplus stock which the contracting of the rim at its rear surfaceffurnishes being worked up in imparting to the handle a half round or semicircu lar form, and which form gives great stiffness and strength to the handle, bracing it, as it were, in connection with the rim, at the point where the greatest strain is to be borne, and.

consequently where the required.

The construction and operation' of my invention are as follows: A blank of the form shown at A, Fig. 3, is cut from a sheet of any suitable metal. Out-of this blank piece is struck up or stamped a shovel, such as is shown in Fig. 1, the body, consisting of the plate B and rim O, and the handle D al1' being formed of a single piece of metal. The handle D, as will be seen by reference to the greatest strength is drawings, extends directly from the rear section of the plate B, and is in cross-section of the form shown in Fig. 2. In forming the rear section ofthe rim O there is surplus metal. I utilize this excess of metal in throwing up a handle of the form shown, and which half round or semicircular form,'taken in connec-v tion with the fact that the handle proceeds immediately from the blade B, and is, as it were, braced for a considerable distance or to the depth of the rim by said rim, as shown at C', Fig. l, Iusecure an exceedingly strong and stifle attachment, rendering the handle far more permanently secured than is possible in those shovels in which the handle extends from the top of the rim.

By my invention iron as cheap as is known to the trade-as grade No. 22-can be used.

The upper or cylindrical section ot' the handle is provided with a series of perforations,

d d, which serve to keep the handle cool, and which is a great convenience in handling.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l As a new article of manufacture, a fireshovel constructed out of a single piece of metal, having its handle projecting directly from the blade, and the excess of metal left in forming the rim being worked up to impart a half round or semcircular form to the handle at its point ot' union with `the blade, substantially as described;

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signedmy name to this `specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN GRAVES.

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