US296450A - Manufacture of nut-picks - Google Patents

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(No' Model.)

H. M. QUAGKENBUSH.

MANUFACTURE OF NUT PICKS.

N0. 296,450. Patented Apr. 8,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MARCUS QUAGKENBUSH, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK.

MANUFACTURE OF NUT-PICKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,450, dated April 8, 1884-.

Application filed March 24, 1882. (No model.)

Be it known that I, HENRY MARcUs QUACK- ENBUSH, a citizen of the United States, residing'at Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Nut-Picks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of nut-picks composed of round metallic wire, in which the handles are embossed or ornamented with a design, which imparts a high degree of finish to them. Heretofore in the construction of these nut-picks it has been customary to form them from two pieces of metal, the body or handleportion and the point, which have been united by a screw-thread, and in forming the point the flat portion of the latter has been removed by milling, and the curvature of the point afterward given to it. In my invention I produce the entire pick from one homogeneouspiece of metal,and I produce the point entire at one operation in asuitable die. By this means I avoid loosening or separation of the two parts of the pick, and I produce a point which is stiffer and harder than if the metal is; left in its original density, as heretofore.

The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figure 1, an elevation, and in Fig. 2 a section, of a nut-pick containing my improvements.

In carrying my invention into practice, Iselect a cylindrical rod of wire,which is embossed or ornamented in any desired design upon its surface, as shown in Fig. 2, in a manner extensively practiced by myself for several years. A portion of this wire is left intact to form the handle, as shown at A in said Fig. 1, and the point B is then turned down in alathe to its general shape. Inext place the point B, or the outer portion thereof, in a suitable die, and impart thepro per pressure to the latter, whereby the concave or flattened portion a is ob tai need by condensing the metal simultaneously with imparting the desired longitudinal curvaturc. This completes the manufacture of the pick, which is to be finally polished and plated. By this construction, in which I omit the screw-thread union between the two parts of the pick, as heretofore practiced, I avoid, as beforestated, loosening or separation of the point or handle by producing the point by compression in a die. The point retains its original shape, and is more durable than if the metal is left in its original condition.

The ornamented handle imparts a high degree of finish to the instrument, and prevents its slipping in the users hand.

I claim- The manufacture of nut-picks substantially as herein described, consisting in the selection of a metallic rod ornamented upon its surface to form the handle, reducing a portion of this rod in a lathe to form the point, and finally compressing the point in a die, by which itis condensed and rendered stiff and hard and the desired curvature imparted to it.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY MARCUS QUACKENBUSH.

Witnesses:

F. Cunrrs, H. E. Lonon.

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