US399394A - Snow shovel and scraper - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

L. PAIRWEATHER.

SNOW SHOVEL AND SGRAPER. No. 399,394. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

WITNESSES: 7 QMW/ I BY ATTORNEY,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LYDIA FAIRlVEATHER, OF RICHMOND HILL, SEXY YORK.

SNOW SHOVEL AND SCRAPER.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,394, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed January 12, 1889. Serial No. 296,122. (No model.)

To (all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYDIA FAIRWEATHER, of Richmond Hill, county of Queens, and State of New York; have invented a new and Im proved Combined Snow Shovel and Scraper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved tool combining a snow shovel and scraper, and arranged so as to con veniently and quickly change the tool, forimmediate use, from a snow shovel to a scraper, or vice versa.

The invention consists of a scoop provided on one end with a scraper, ahandle pivotally connected with the said scoop, and mcanslor locking the scoop in place on the handle.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accmnpan vi )1 g drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the improvement as used for a shovel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same as used for a scraper. Fig. Ziisa plan view of the same, and i substances.

Fig. i is an end view of the scoop.

The improvement is provided with a scoop,

A, comprising a bottom, B, an end, C, which extends at right angles to the bottom B, and

side pieces, I), connecting the end C with the 1 bottom B and extending to about the middle of the said bottom. On theupper edge of the end piece, C, is secured, by suitable means, a transveiisely-extending scraper, E, formed of a metallic plate projecting above the end C.

To the under side of the bottom B of the scoop A is pivoted, near its middle, a handle, F, cxtemling rearward, and provided with a longitudimil slot, G, in which is held a key, H, provided on its front end with the lugs H and H adapted to pass onto the handle F and the bottom B of the scoop A, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This key serves to lock the scoop A in place in either position on the handle F. In order to hold the key H from passing out of the slot G in the handle F, I provide said key with the pins I and I,

located above and below the handle F, as shown in the drawings.

In the end C is formed a vertical slot, C, (see Fig. 4,) through which is adapted to pass the lug H of the key H when the tool is used as a snow-shovel. The key is locked in place by a latch, J, pivoted at J to the top of the handle F at the rear of the key H, so that the free end of the said latch can abut against the back of the key H, as shown in the drawings. An offset or shoulder, J is formed on the free end of the latch J to engage one side of the key H, and to serve for preventing the latch from swinging too far. A handle, K, is formed on the latch J for conveniently moving the latch in and out of contact with the key H.

When the device is in the position shown in Fig. l, the scoop A rests on top of the front end of the handle F, so that the sides D and the end C extend upward. The key H is moved so that its projection H passest-hrough the slot- U in the end C of the scoop, and the other projection, H engages the under side of the handle F. The latch J is moved at its free end against the back of the key H, so as 'to lock the latter in place, whereby the scoop A is locked in place on the handle F. The device can now be used, in the ordinary manner, as a shovel for removing snow or other hen the operator desires to use the tool as a scraper, he unlocks the latch J by swinging it outward, so as to free the key H. The latter is then. moved rearward until its projection .l'l disengages the bottom 13 of the scoop A. The latter is then turned on its pivots on the handle F, so that the front end of the bottom 13 extends rearward under the handle F, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The key H is then moved forward, so that the projection H engages the front end of the bottom B and the projection 11. engages the top of the handle F. The latch J is then swung inward again to lock the key H in place. The scoop A is thus locked to the handle F in such a manner that the scraper E extends downward on the front end of the scoop, as is plainly shown in said Figs. 2 and 3. The device is now used as a scraper forloosening or removing snow or ice or other substances, in the usual manner.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters t 1. A combined snow shovel and scraper, comprising a scoop provided on its end with a scraper, and a handle 011 which said scoop is pivoted and locked in place, substantially as shown and described.

2. A combined snow shovel and scraper, comprising a scoop, a scraper held on one end thereof, a handle on which the said scoop is pivoted, and means, substantially. as shown and described, :for locking the scoop in place on the handle, as set forth.

3. A combined snow shovel and scraper, comprising a scoop, a scraper held on one end LYDIA FAIRVVE ATHER.

itnesses:

THEo. G. HOSTER, C. SEDGWICK.

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