US324998A - Tamping-tool - Google Patents

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(No Model.) H. M. HOXIE.

TAMPING TOOL. No. 324,998. Patented Aug. 25, 1885,

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Attest f NiTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT M. HOXIE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TAMPlNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,998, dated August 25, 1885.

Application tiled March Q, 1855. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HERBERT M. HOXIE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tamping-Tools, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

Figure l is a front view of the tool. 2 is a side View. tion at 8 3, Fig. l.

This tamping-tool has a metal head, A, and handle B. The head is made with a socket at a a', or some other means for the attachment of the wooden handle. For instance, straps somewhat similar to those of a shovel may be riveted to the head and to the handle, or may be made in one piece with the head and riveted tothe handle, as is usual in shovels.

The head may be made of iron,with a steel face, cl2, or may very properly be made of cast-steel, and the socket a a or equivalent straps may be cast in one piece with the head or secured to it by rivets; or one part of the socket, a, may be in one piece with the head, and another part, a', of the socket riveted thereto, shown in the drawings.

When the socket or any part thereof is made of a separate piece or pieces, the socket may be made of larger interior diameter at the inner end, so that the handle shall be held iirrnly in the socket by this means, as the handle of a pick or an adz is held in its socket, and even when the socket is in one piece with the head it may be made of the same form, if desired. This is, however, not an essential feature, for the handle may be held in the socket by a rivet, a3, or by any other suitable means.

The head is bent at a4 a4, so that its working part is out of line with the handle, this form being given for the convenience and ease of the workman, as it relieves him from. the necessity of stooping to so great a degree as would be required it' the handle and the working part of the head were in line. This form Fig. Fig. 3 is a transverse sec-` of the parts raises the handle above an adjacent tie of a railway-track when the tool is used for tamping beneath the ties.

The head is shown as becoming both wider and thicker from the handle to the face, so

that it will not clog in use. The headniay be made of any required weight to give effectiveness to the blow.

The handle may be of any preferred form. It is shown as a straight bar made round in the part by which it is held, and having a square part, b, ltting the square socket c. The tool may, however, be made with a shovelhandle or a T-handle.

I wish it distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the described materials for the head, for it may be cast or forged of any suitable metal or in any suitable nia-nner. For instance, it may be made of cast-iron, with or without a chilled or converted face.

I am aware that spades, shovels, and other implements have been provided with an integral piece which projects upwardly and forms the back half of the socket,in which the handle tits, the other half of said socket being a separate piece of metal bolted or riveted to the head of the implement at its lower end, the two sections of the socket being secured to the handle by means of one or more bolts or rivets passing through the said handle; but this is not the equivalent of my invention.

I claimy l. In a tamping-tool, the combinatie ,/with the tamping-head having a portion of the handle-socket formed therewith, and/a flange or web projecting from each side ot' said socket, of a plate formed with the other portion of the socket and similar ilanges, bolts or rivets for securing said flanges together, and the handle, substantially as set forth.

2. A tamping -tool having a head of increased width and thickness at the workingface, substantially as set forth.

3. The head of a tamping-tool,bent in proximity to the handle, and increasing in width and thickness from the bend to the workingface.

4. The combination, in a tamping-tool, of a head with a handle-socket set at an inclination to the working part and Haring from the socket to the w0rking-face,and awoo'den handie fixed in the socket, substantially as set forth.

HERBERT M. HOXIE. Vitnesses:

WILLIAM A. DRIrs, GEorrREY OHARA.

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