US416063A - Deick - Google Patents

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4 UNTED STATES PATENT y OFFICE.

'I'LLIAM FRANCIS IIENDRICK, OF VINFIELI), IOlVA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IiI. L. GLASS, OF SAME PLACE. i

POT onl LID LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,063, dated November 26, 1889.

Application iiled July 2, 1889. Serial No. 316,305. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANCIS KEN- DRICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at VViniield, in the county of Henry and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Pot or Lid Lifter, of which the followin gis a speciiication.

This invention has relation Vto pot or lid lift-ers, and, though especially adapted for the purpose mentioned, it will be apparent from the appended description that the device may serve as tongs and be applied to numerous uses. l l

Among the objects in View are to provide a device so constructed as to be adapted to automatically grip t-he edge of a lid or take into an opening therein, or to'grip the edge of a culinary vessel, or in fact any other object the proportions of which will permit of the device operating upon the same.

A further object of the invention is to construct the device in such a manner that the greater the amount of weight to be lifted by the device the greater the gripping action thereof.

Vith these general objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter speciiied, and particularly pointed out in ille claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a device constructed in accordance with my invention, the saine being in the act of gripping a stove-lid. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the saine disconnected from the lid. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details in perspective of the three castings or sections forming.

the completed device.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In my invention I construct the same of three sections of preferably cast metal, which I shall designate, for convenience, the liftingsection 1, the locking-section 2, and the handle-section 3. The lifting-section 1 is provided with a lid-lifting tongue 4 at its front end, and in rear of the same is recessed the remainder of its length, as at 5, and provided with opposite perforations 6 at about the center of the recess and in the side walls thereof, and with similar perforations 7 in said side walls near their rear ends. This completes the section 1. The lockingsection 2 is simpl y a lever," and is provided at its forward end with abifurcation forming opposite divergent tines S, terminating substantially opposite the end of the lid-entering tongue of the section 1, and at the juncture of the tines with the lever and upon its under .surface are formed opposite lugs 10, which are designed to space the lockingsection from the lifting-section by reason of the lower ends of the lugs coming in contact with the upper edges of the walls of the recess 5. The locking-section terminates at its rear in a thumb-lever 11, which projects beyond the rear end of the section 1. rlhe locking-section 2 at substantially its center is provided with a depending perforated bearing-lug 12, which aligns with the central pair of perforations in the side walls of the recess 5, and through the saine is passed a bearingpin 13, by which means the section 2 :is pivotally connected with the section 1.

The handle-section 3 comprises at its rear end an ordinary handle 14, and terminates at its forward end in a reduced perforated ear 15, through which is passed a pintle 16, by which means said handle-section is pivoted in the rear perforations formed in the walls of the recess 5 of the section 1. Forward of the perforated ear a section 3 is provided with an upwardly-projecting cam 17, which takes under and when in a certain position rides against the surface of the thumb-lever, as will be hereinafter apparent, and between the fulcrum of the section 2 and the section 3.

The operation of my invention is as follows: To grip an article the thumb-lever is depressed by the thumb of the operator and the edge of the article inserted intermediate the tines and the tongue of the section 1. The thumblever is now released and the article lifted,

and in so doing the weight of the article or IOO device it is simply necessary to press lightly upon the thumb-ilever, or in fact by raising the lifter to a vertical position the section 2 Will be caused to open.

It Will be noticed that the device consists of three easily cast and assembled sections, which Will require n hand-finishing, and may be provided at a minimum cost.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. In a device of the class described, a lifting-section and a handle pivotally mounted in the rear end thereof, in combination With a locking-section pivotally mounted on the lifting-section and provided with depending lugs adapted to yspace the lifting and locking sections apart, the handle in front of its pivot adapted to take under and depress the locking-section, substantially as specified.

2. In a device of the class describedJ lifting-section, in combination with a handle pivoted in rear of said section and terminating in front of its pivot in a cam, and a 100king-section pivoted to the lifting-section in front of the handle and eXtended beyond the end of the lifting-section and over the handle y to form a thumb-lever adapted to be elevated at its rear end by the cani, substantially as specified.

3. In a device of the class described, a lifting-section terminating at its front end in a Jtongue and recessed at its rear end, the Walls of Which are provided with bearings, in coinbination With a locking-lever having a lug aligned and perforated to receive a bearingpin, said locking-section terminating at its front end in divergent tines and in rear of its fulcrum in a thumb-lever, and With a handle pivoted in the rear of the perforations and terminating in a reduced perforated ear for the reception of the pin, and forward of the same in a cam operating against the under surface of the thumb-lever, substantially as specified.

v In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed my signature in presenceof two Witnesses.

WILLIAM FRANCIS KENDRICK.

VVitneSSes:

RICHARD M. SHUSoN, E. S. SELLERS.

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