US416387A - Snow-shovel - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

G. v. H WHITBEOK. SNOW SHOVE L.

No. 416,387. Patented Dec. 3.11889} fizz en or.

v t X I 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE V. H. WHITBEOK, OF ROCHESTER, NEYV YORK.

SNOW-SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,387, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed May 21, 1889. Serial No. 311,617. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. H. WHlT- BECK, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Snow- Shovels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the drawings accompanying this application.

My improvement relates to that class of snow-shovels and similar articles in which a sheet-metal blade is used and a wooden handle is attached to the blade bya socket at the rear.

The invention consists in the special construction and arrangement of the socket, as hereinafter described and claimed.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the shovel, showing my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, a portion being shown in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged central longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 4: is an enlarged side elevation of the socket and the lower end of the handle, said parts being separated. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the lower front end of the socket in line 0c 00 of Fig. 4:.

A indicates the blade, and B the handle, which are of usual form. The blade is made of sheet-steel struck up of ordinary shape, and the handle is made of wood, straight or slightly bent near its junction with the blade.

The distinguishing feature of the handle is a,

slot a in its lower end, cut back a suflicient distance to receive the rear flanged edge of the blade, and a beveled end I), which fits the bottom of the socket, as hereinafter described;

0 is the socket, which is the subject of my invention. It is made of thin malleable castiron or other suitable metal, and consists of the bottom 0, of angular form longitudinally, to fit the bottom of the blade and handle, and convex in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 5, to give strength. It is also formed with a tip (I and side bars ff, which extend down over the top of the shovel-blade, said tip being riveted to the blade and serving to receive the extreme lower point of the handle, and the side bars extending up along the sides of the handle till they pass above the upturned flange g of the blade, when they turn downward and join with the bottom 0, as shown more especially in Fig. 4. If desired, the parts (1 f f may be made separate from the bottom 0, and be attached thereto by bolting or otherwise. The socket is also formed with a central longitudinal rib h, which extends from front to rear of the horizontal portion of the bottom,

and with two or more studs '5 t, which form the rivets. The rivet 7; passes up through a hole in the blade and is headed down onto a washer k. The rivet 2' passes up through a hole in the blade and another in the tip d, and is .headed down to clamp the tip, the blade, and the bottom piece together. The rib h rests up against and forms a support to the blade from front to rear, and also receives the rear bottom part of the handle, as shown in Fig. 3. The parts are attached together by inserting the rear part of the blade between the bottom 0 and the tip (1, the rear flanged edge 9 of the blade extending back into the space m, between the upper and lower parts of the socket. The rivets i t" are then secured in place, which attaches the blade fast to the socket. The handle is then inserted, its under side resting on the bottom 0, its lower pointed extremity entering the tip d, and its slot to embracing the upturned flange g of the blade. A bolt 19 is then inserted through the rear end of the bottom 0 and the handle, thus securing the handle firmly to the socket and the blade. One great advantage in this socket is that it rests partially below and partially above the blade, the two parts being secured by rivets, and the arms f f of the upper part extending up over and around the flanged rear end g of the blade, thus inclosing and protecting the same and serving to take the strain in a longitudinal direction when a prying action is produced on the handle.

This invention is applicable not only to snow-shovels, but also to other shovels and scoops for other purposes.

Having described my invention, I do not claim, simply and broadly, a split handle, nor a tang of the shovel-blade entering the split. Neither do I claim re-enforcing plates on opposite sides at the junction of the blade and handle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The shovel-socket herein described, contoo sistinp; oi the bottom 0, the tip (I, and side bars ff, connecting the tip with the body and leaving space between for the upturned edge of the blade, as herein shown and described.

2. The shovel-socket consisting of the bottom 0, constructed with the rib 71 and rivets L' 11, the tip (Z, and the side barsff, connecting the tip with the body, as shown anddeseribed, and for the purpose specified.

The combination, with the blade having an upturned rear edge, and with the handle provided with a longitudinal slot to receive the upturned edge, of a socket made in one piece, consisting of two parts with an open-

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