US352416A

US352416A - Carpet-tack tool

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Publication number: US352416A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-09

Description

(No Model.)

' M. S. LANTZ.

CARPET TAGK TOOL.

No. 352,416. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

WITNESSES: 1 VENTOK we QMWJ L 5 ATTORNEY N. PETERSv Phnlo-Llthugrupher, Wnshinghvn. RC,

Ihvrrnn STATES MENNO S. LANTZ, OF CHESTNUT HILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-TACK TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,416, dated November 9, 1 886 Application filed December 5, 1885. Serial No. 184,805.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MENNo S. LANTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chestnut Hill, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpet-Tack Tools and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful implement used in driving and withdrawing a carpet-tack of any construction; and it consists in forming a tack-lifter (having-the ordinary prongs or claws for lifting a tack) with a notch upon one side, wherein a tack is held and released by a metallic spring, as I will proceed to describe. 7

The drawing represents a perspective view of the article.

A is the handle.

B is the body of the instrument, which terminates in a claw with the ordinary curved and forked end, as at 0, but with a semicircular projection, D, and an angular notch, E, upon one side.

H is a metallic spring, which is fastened into a hole in the shank at F, passed through a hole in the projection D,and extended beyond the notch E, thus leaving a triangular orifice at E. The shape of the orifice and the flexibility of the spring permit the tack when slightly started into the floor to be easily re.

leased.

The tack may be put into the orifice either before or after the carpet is pushed into and held in place by the prongs or claws. The tack is then started, and the holder is withdrawn.

(No model.)

must, besides, be held in the instrument by the finger and driven into the floor before the carpet is put down. The carpet is then pressed over the head of the tack and the tack turned to its place. In the patents granted to George Mosman, May 14, 1867, and to J. E. Sturdy, December 8, 1868, the devices, objects, and results obtained are also essentially different from those sought in the patent which isthe subject of this petition. those patents is capable of being used as a tacklifter. Mosmans is composed of four jaws, twoplate-j aws making the carpet-stretcher and two spring-jaws holding and releasing the tack. Sturdys patent is composed of two platcjaws hinged together. The jaws are held and drawn together by a rubber band, which encircles them. In both of these patents the main device is the carpet-stret-cher, the spring-jaws in the one and the rubber band in the other, which render them useful as tack-holders, being auxiliary to\the carpet-stretchers. The spring-jaws operate so distinct from the office of the carpet-stretcher as to. require in eii'ect the necessary mechanism for two instruments, save the haudlesto wit, one set of jaws for the carpetstretcher and another set for the tack-holder. The rubber band in the other patent performs no office to the carpet-stretcher and no direct office to the tack-holder, but merely pulls the separated jaws together. On the other hand, as a tack-holder my instrument does away with all jaws. and the simplespring, unlike the rubber band, performs a primary office from the beginning to the end of all the operations as atack-holder. The spring could not work alone, as in Mosmans patent; neither is the spring a separate mechanism from the holder, as in Sturdys patent.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, the carpet- -tack tool composed of a tack-lifter having the ordinary claws or prongs for withdrawing Neither of tacks, with an angular notch and semicircular projection upon one side, in combination with the metallic spring for holding tacks, substantially as and for the purposes described.

MENNO S. LANTZ. YVitnesses;

H. GAMBLE, W. H. VAN ARSDALE.