US662691A - Mallet. - Google Patents

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Patented Nov. 27. 5900.

G. B. GUUDARU.

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(Application filed Aug. 22, 1900.)

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SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 662,691, dated November 27, 1900.

Application filed August 2 1 1900. Serial No. 27,688. ,(No model.)

which the following, taken in connection with i the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to mallets of the class usually used in shoe factories; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, which will be readily understood by reference to the description of the accompanying drawings and to the claims hereto appended and in which my invention is clearly pointed out.

Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation of a mallet illustrating my invention, the body of the handle being of wood. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same, but having the handle-covering composed of rings of leather. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a slightlymodilied form of the handle-bolt with a longitudinal section of the sleeve. Fig. 4 is a partial central longitudinal section with the rawhide body of the mallet removed and illustrating a modified form of the handguard. Fig. 5 is an elevation of one form of the handguard; and Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are respectively an outside elevation, an inside elevation, and a section of a modified form of the handguard.

In the drawings, 1 is the handle-bolt, provided with a head 2 at one end, which may form a shoulder 33, as shown in Figs 2 and 4, or may be in the form of a frustum of a cone, as shown in Fig. 3. This bolt is made straight or of uniform diameter from Ct to b and tapering from b to c. A metallic sleeve 4, provided with the head 5 at one end and a male screwthread on its other end, the bore of said sleeve having an enlargement at its headed end to receive the head 2 of the bolt 1 and having a gradually-expanding section at its other end, is fitted to the handle-bolt 1, as shown.

The mallet-head 10 is composed of the collars 6 and 7 and the rawhide disks 8, clamped firmly together upon the sleeve 4 by the nut 9, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

That portion of the bolt 1 which projects beyond the threaded end of the sleeve 4 has secured thereon in any well-known manner the handle 11, which may be of wood, as shown in Fig. l, or of rings of leather firmly compressed together upon said bolt, as shown 'in Figs. 2 and 4.

The collar 6 has a portion of the opening through it enlarged to receive the head 5 of the sleeve 4, and the collar 7 has formed in its outer face a shallow hexagonal recess to receive the nut 9, all as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

The construction of the mallet so far as described is substantially the same as that shown and described in the LettersPatent No. 414,808, granted to me November 12, 1889, except that in said patent the mallethead is built directly upon the handle-bolt, which is threaded to receive the clampingnut. This has been found to be an objectionable feature in the construction of the mallet, owing to the liability of the breaking of the handle-bolt, which occasionally occurs and invariably at some point in the threaded section of said bolt, thus rendering the mallet useless. To obviate this objection and render the mallet less liable to such accidents, and therefore more durable, is one of the objects of my present invention, and to this end I build the mallet-head complete upon the sleeve 4, having the flaring bore at its threaded end, whereby the handleloolt is permitted to spring slightly within said sleeve when a heavy blow is struck, and thus render the liability oi. breakage much less than when the head is built directly upon the handlebolt, as heretofore. Another objection that has been raised to my said prior invention is that in cases where the operator wishes to strike a light'blow he seizes the mallet-handle close to the clamping-nut, and after continu one use in this way for some time the angular corners of said nut coming repeatedly in contact with the hand bet-ween the thumb and forefinger soon chafes and irritates the flesh to such an extent as to cause a sore. To obviate this objection, I provide the handle at its end next the clamping-nut with a hand.

guard 12, so arranged relative to said nut as to prevent the hand of the operator coming in contact with said nut and so formed as to present no angular or rough surfaces to contact with the hand. This guard may be made in the form of a circular disk or flange having a smooth rounded edge, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, or in the form of a cupguard to fit over and inclose said nut, and having a smooth circular outer surface, as shown in Figs. 4, 6,7, and 8. This guard may be made of leather or rawhide and turned to a perfectly smooth surface.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. in a mallet of the class described, the combination of a handle-bolt having a head at one end, and a portion of its length made cylindrical, or of uniform diameter, and the remaining portion made tapering; a sleeve inclosing the cylindrical portion of said handle-bolt, and fitting closely thereto for a distance from said bolt-head equal to about twothirds the length of said sleeve, and not touching said bolt for the remaining portion of its length, and provided with a head at one end, and a male screw-thread at its other end, the collars 6 and 7, the former provided with a recess to receive the head or" said sleeve; a plurality of rawhide disks between said collars; a clamping-nut fitted to the threaded end of said sleeve and a suitable covering inclosing that portion of the handle-bolt which projects beyond the threaded end of said sleeve to form a handle.

2. In a mallet of the class described, the combination of a smooth handle-bolt provided with a head at one end; a sleeve fitted thereon and provided with a head at one end and a male screw-thread on its other end, and having a portion of its bore at its threaded end frusto-conical; the collars 6 and 7 fitted to said sleeve and the former provided with a recess to receive the head of said sleeve; a plurality of rawhide disks between said collars; a clamping-nut fitted to the threaded end of said sleeve; and a suitable covering inclosing that portion of the handle-bolt which projects beyond the threaded end of said sleeve to form a suitable handle.

3. The combination of a mallet'head comprising two collars, a series of rawhide disks between said collars, and means for clamping said parts together; and a handle attached to said head and provided at its inner end with a cup-shaped hand-guard having a smooth circular exterior surface and constructed and arranged to entirely inclose the clamping-nut substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 20th day of August, A. D. 1900.

GEORGE E. GODDARD.

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, JAMES A. WOODBURY.

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