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0. WATSON. BOX OPENING HATGHET.

No. 431,199. Patented July 1, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ONEALL W'ATSON, OF ORAl/VFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO l/VILLIAM A. FOWVLER, OF SAME PLACE.

BOX-OPENING HATCHET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,199Jdated July 1, 1890,

Application filed May 24, 1889- Scrial No. 311,990- (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ()NEALL lVATsON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Box-Opening Hatchet, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a combination-tool especially adapted for use in opening boxes and crates; and among the objects in View are to provide a cheap and convenient hand-tool for the purpose above described so constructed as to obviate the necessity of forcible blows, so arranged as to provide a powerful leverage, and which is adapted for use as a cutting-tool or hammer, and a nail claw so arranged as not to require a change from one hand to the other, that will not mar the boards, and one in which the handle, besides its other functions, will serve the purpose of a screw-driver.

The invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are perspectives of a tool constructed in accordance with my invention, the same being shown in operative position. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective of the head. Fig. 4 is a transverse sect-ion of the same, the section be ing taken through the blade.

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

The head consists of a central thickened body portion 1, which is provided with an eye 2 .for the reception of a suitable handle 3. At one side of the handle-eye 2 the head is reduced to form a diagonally-arranged cutting-blade 4, said blade being arranged at an angle to the plane of the head, and therefore also to the handle 3 and its eye 2, and crossing the longitudinal axis of the latter between the ends of the same.

The opposite end of the head 1 is projected beyond the opening 2 to form a reduced cylindrical hammer end 5, said end being more than of ordinary length and adapted to serve as a supplemental handle or hand-grip for a purpose hereinafter apparent. Upon the up per face of the head 1 andprojecting slightly above the same, and in a lateral relative direction, is formed a nail-claw 6, the rear end of which embraces the opening 2 formed in the head.

Upon the under surface of the head 1,and formed integral with the said .head and encircling the opening 2, is a collar 7, one side of which is projected beyond the surface or side of the head, as at- 8, to form a fulcrum, said fulcrum occurring at that side of the head opposite, upon which is located the bearing-surface is provided.

The manner of handling the hereindescribed tool in the opening of boxes is as follows: By grasping the hammer portion with the right hand and the handle 3 with the left and placing the cutting-edge against the crevice or opening intermediate the boards and pressing firmly with the right hand on the hammer part and working at the same time the handle proper, the edge or blade 4 will be gradually inserted within the slightest open ing. Then, by holding in place the head through the medium of the right hand and prying down upon the handle, the projection 8 upon the collar 7 acts as a convenient fulcrum, the outer side as a purchase, and the handle as a lever, and in this manner the board may be raised; and, by reason of the width of the blade 4, opposite edges of two boards may be simultaneously started and raised, and this without splitting the same. After the first board is raised, hold the handle perpendicular, the cutting-edge down and from you, drop the hatchet-blade entirely under the end of the lid at the left side, and place the small projecting fulcrum on side of box and pull back on the handle, which again acts as a lever. When lids are slightly raised or started, strike the board sharply near the nail ends with the hammer end 5, which causes the nail-headto rise sufficiently to be caught by the claw and removed. If desired, in lieu of the metal handle described, an ordinary wooden handle may be employed.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim is- 1. The herein-described tool-head, having a central handle-receiving eye and comprising at one side of its eye a blade, at the opposite side a hammer, and intermediate the two at one side a claw, and opposite the claw a fulcrum projecting therefrom, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described tool-head, comprising a central thickened body portion, perforated to receive a handle, and at its lower surface and at one side provided with a laterally-projecting fulcrum, and upon its upper surface at its upper opposite lateral side with a nail-claw, and at one longitudinal side with a diagonally-disposed blade, and at its opposite side with a hammer adapted to serve as a supplemental handle for. the blade, substantially as specified.

3. The herein-described combination-tool, consisting of the head 1,having the laterallyopposite claw 6, collar 7, and lug 8, and the intermediate eye 2, having the handle 3, terminating in the screw-driver 9, and the blade a, arranged at an obtuse angle to the handle and at one longitudinal side thereof, and the extended hammer portion 5 at the opposite longitudinal side, substantially as specified.

4. The tool-head provided with a handlereceiving eye, and terminating at one end in a blade the cutting-edge of which is disposed at an angle to and crosses the longitudinal axis of the eye between the ends of said eye, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

oNEALL WATSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN 1W1. SCHULTZ, J AS. T. WALLACE.

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