US304769A - Handle for blacksmithss tools - Google Patents

Description

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w. E. WHITTLBTON.

I HANDLE FOR BLAGKSMITH'S TOOLS. 110,304,769. Patented Sept. 9, 1884.

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VILLIAM E. VVH ITTLETON, OF ROCHESTER, NEXV YORK.

HANDLE FOR BLACKSMITHS TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. L769, dated September 9, 1884.

' Application filed May 22, 18%. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. WHITTLE- TON, of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handles for Blacksmiths Tools, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

There is a class of blacksmiths and boilermakers tools, including the cold-chisel, flatter, fuller, svage, rivet-header, &c., used in forging and boiler-making that are formed to be held upon the work by the principal workman and struck with a sledge by the assistant. These tools are commonly made with eyes or holes through them laterally, in which to receive the ends of wooden handles-about twenty inches or two feet long, to be grasped by the principal workman while the helper strikes the head of the tool with a sledge, as stated, to give shape to the work. Piercing these tools with eyes is an expensive operation in the manufacture of them, and, besides, the eyes very much weaken the tools, so the latter are very apt to break across at the eye after being repeatedly struck with the sledge. To

- avoid the expense and time necessary to form coil or bend of the same.

these tools with eyes, blacksmiths sometimes form them solid and bend a piece of wire or light rod of iron around them, bringing the projecting ends of the wire or rod together to be used as a handle, the tool being held in. the Tools thus formed last much longer and are made at much less expense; but the crude handles thus formed are troublesome and objectionable, as they do not hold the tools firmly, and, besides, are awkward to grasp or hold in the hand.

To supply a desirable handle for holding these solid or eyeless tools firmly and well, and one to take the place of the crude bent rod, is the object of my invention, which invention consists of a rod with an adjustable eye or 1001) at one end in which to receive the tool, and a sleeve to receive or cover the shank or rod and effect the expansion or contraction of the eye by longitudinal adjustment, and means to adjust the sleeve thereon so as to expand or contract the eye or loop at pleasure in the act of grasping and holding the tool, which invention is fully set forth in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved eyeless tool-holder with all parts in place, a tool being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 2. a view of the same taken as indicated byarrow in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view of the sleeve removed from the rod or shank, showing also the form of the ends of the former; Fig. 4, a view of the rod and eye without the sleeve, also the adjustable thread-protecting nut in plan and central longitudinal section; Fig. 5, a'modification in the construction of the eye and Fig. 6, an enlarged figure showing the movable part of the eye in two positions, and the manner of hanging the same to the main part or shank, the latter being sectioned longitudinally to expose the joint.

Referring to the parts, A is a rod of iron, of

suitable diameter and length to form a holder for the tools above mentioned, provided with a screw-thread, a, at one end, and at the other end curved into a nearly semicircular hook or how, I).

Z is a short piece of rod of the same diameter as the rod A, bent at 0, similar to the curved part Z) of the rod, and attached to the latter so that the curved ends of the two parts shall be even, the curves lying in the same plane and concavit-ies of the two curves opposite each other, as shown. The part Z is joined to the rod A by means of a simple tongue, e, projecting from the part Z into a longitudinal opening, (I, in the rod A, as shown in Fig. 6, a pin, t, passing through both parts to retain them in place, and when thus joined the bowed parts 0 and bform a circular loop or eye, h, in which to receive the tool.

B is a sleeve for the rod A, preferably made of gaspipe, re-enforced at one end by a band, f.

At 0 is shown the end of the sleeve surrounded by the band, showing the whole as slightly flattened, making the bore 9 of the pipe thereat oblong or oval. The other end of the sleeve is cylindrical, as shown at 1), to be grasped in the hand of the workman. The sleeve is passed over the rod A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the flattened banded end being next the eye h, so that the oval or oblong part IOO r of the bore covers a portion of the separated or diverging parts I) and 6 near the point atwhich they arejoined. From this construction of parts it w illbe understood that it. the sleeve be urged longitrulinally toward the eye h, the latter will be contracted by the parts 7) and I being brought nearer togetlurr, while, it the sleeve he slid back or in the opposite direction, the eye is permitted to expand. The sleeve is shorter than the rod, and of such relative length that when placed on the latter the threaded end (0 ol' the rod projects a short distance to receive the nut 7r, which, when screwed onto the threads at a, bears against the end of the sleeve. 13y turning or screwing the nut i'urther on the rod the sleeve will be urged further over the divided parts l'orini ng the eye, and contract the latter upon the tool. The tool may be released by turning the nut It in the opposite direction and allowing the sleeve to slide back from the eye. The nut 7: is provided with a U-shaped part or how, 01, which covers and protects from injury the threaded end a of the rod. In throwing these toolhandles around careless] y, as worlunen are apt to do while using them, the threads at a are apt to get marred unless protected. This style of toolhaudle is light and durable and convenient to hold in the hand, and in every way preferable to the wooden or bent-rod handles iirst above named.

may answer ust as well, thought-he extent to which it may be expanded and contracted is less than that of the correspoinling part shown in Fig. 4:. The sleeve being carried over the rod causes the eye to open or close in the same manner in which it causes the eye of the rod shown in Fig. 4, to open and close, as described.

What I claim as my invention is 11.. A handle for holding eycless tools, consisting of a rod, A, with attached part 1, which latter, with the red A, is curved to term an eye, 71., in which to receive the tool, and a sleeve, 13, for the rod, with means to more the sleeve longitiulinally upon the rod to adjust the size or diameter of the eye, substantially as shown and described.

2. The red A of a tool-holder, provided at j one end with a screwthread, u, and at the other end with a part, Z, joined to the rod by a pivotal joint, the two parts together iornliug an eye, It, in which to receive a tool, a sleeve, 11}, for the rod, and serew-nnt Ix, tor the threaded part a of the rod, said screw-nut being pro vided with a protector, n, for the thread, sulr stantially as set forth.

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