US501919A

US501919A - Tack-puller

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Publication number: US501919A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-07-25
Anticipated expiration: 1910-07-25

Description

[No Model.)

G. J. OAVPEWELL.

TACK FULLER.

No. 501,919 PatentedJuly 25, 1893.

4 UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

'GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

TACK-PU LLER.

srncrrrcnrron forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,919, dated July 25, 1893. Application filed September 7, 1392. Serial no. 446,277. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tack-Pullers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact "specification.

The invention relates to the class of articles having both fixed and movable jaws for pulling tacks, brads, pins and small nails, the object being to provide a simple and cheap article of this class having a fixed jaw with a wide end that can be readily inserted under and firmly hold one edge ofthe head of the tack to be extracted, and a jaw pivoted to the fixed jaw, adapted to grasp the other edge of the head of the tack, the tail of the movable jaw which forms the fulcrum of the lever in pulling a tack and causes the jaws to close tightly together being widened to form a broad flat surface that will not cut, mar or deface the material against which it bears.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of the article illustrating its use in driving a tack. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of a modified form illustrating the position of the parts when commencing to draw a tack. Fig. 4 is a similar view illustrating the position when the tack is drawn; and Fig. 5 isa view of the article with a modified form of handle. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the ends of the jaws.

In the views 1 indicates the handle which may be made in any suitable shapeof wood, iron or other convenient material, and to the handle the tang of the fixed jaw 2 which is preferably stamped from sheet metal, is secured The outer end 3 of this fixed jaw is bent over on a curve in a'plane across the plane of the body of the jaw, and the convexed edge of the end of this curved portion is ground or sharpened forming a gouge shaped end. Pivoted to this fixed jaw is a plate 4 preferably also stamped from thin sheet steel, with a fiat hooked claw or jaw 5 which is adapted to oscillate toward and from the curved end of the fixed jaw. On the opposite side of the pivot this plate is bent out and back on itself in a plane at an angle with the plane of the plate so as to form a wide end 6 with a flat bearing surface.

open or skeleton handle formed of metal is shown, the inner edges around the opening through the handle for a portion of the length being serrated or provided with notches or teeth 10 so that the tool can be used as a wrench for turning nuts, gas burners or similar fittings.

In use the wide curved or gouge-shaped end of the fixed jaw is readily inserted beneath the head of the tack the curve of which it approximately fits, without cutting the material into which the tack iS-drivemwhile the wide end of the movable jaw affords a broad fiat. surface upon which to fulcrum the tool when pulling a tack, so that this end will not sink into, cut, mar or deface the surface against which it is bearing. The narrow hooked end of the oscillating jaw also easily catches under the head and holds it so the tack cannot slip from the curved end of the fixed jaw which is passed under the head in starting the tack.

The tool is simple and convenient and as the jaws may be stamped from sheet metal it is very cheap in construction as well as efficient for rapidly extracting tacks without marring the material in which the tacks are set.

I claim as my invention A tack puller consisting of a handle having a fixed plate of thin metal of uniform thickness, with its outer end bent in a curve to form a gouge, wide enough to project on each side of a thin plate of uniform thickness pivoted to the fixed plate, said plate having a hook-shaped end that is movable toward and from the gouge end of the fixed plate, and an end that is bent across itself to form a resting foot, substantially as specified.

GEORGE J. CAPEWELL.

Witnesses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, J O. STEVENS.