US717938A - Gage. - Google Patents

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No. 717,938. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903. S. E. SMITH.

GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.11. 1902.

NO MODEL.

' FFICE.

SETH E. SMITH, OF ELLIOTT, IOWA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD P. BENNETT, OF GRANT, IOWA.

GAGE.

" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,938, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed March 11, 1902. Serial No. 97,771. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: I

Be it known that I, SETH E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elliott,

in the county of Montgomery and State of Iowa,,haveinvented a new and useful Gage, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to gages, and while particularly intended as a shinglinggage to be applied to hatchets it may be used for other analogous purposes.

One of the prime objects of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive gage which may be readily applied to the handle of a hatchet or similar instrument and securely fastened against movement thereon, being readily adjustable upon the handle when so desired.

The preferred embodimentof the invention is clearly shown in the accompanying drawings and described in thefollowing specification.

In said drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a hatchet, showing the gage applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the gage. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the clamp-plate and gage-stop.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the invention a pair of clamping devices are'employed, one of which is in the form of a collar 10, that is arranged to surround the handle of a hatchet or similar instrument and has its ends 11 arranged in overlapping relation. Within this collar is movably mounted a clamp-plate 12, that is preferably curved to conform to a surface of the handle, said plate projecting beyond both ends of the collar and having outstanding guide projections 13, that engage over the edges to prevent longitudinal displacement. One of the projecting ends of the clamp-plate 12 is provided with an oifset outstanding gage-stop 14, which is preferably made integral with the clamp-plate and bent at substantially right angles thereto.

The clamp-plate 12 is moved with relation to the collar 10 by means of a screw 15, carried by the collar 10, said screw passing through openings 16, made in the overlapping ends of the collar, and thereby securing said ends together. This screw is threaded into a nut 17, located within the collar, and its inner end bears upon the clamp-plate 12, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In use the device is first placed upon the handle of the hatchet, hammer, or other instrument, with the gage-stop at a distance from the end that isequal to the distance at which the courses of shingles are to be placed. This. distance can be changed by loosening the clamp or set screw and moving the gage upon the handle. When it is desired to find the proper distance for the lower end of the shingle to be nailed, the hatchet is laid upon the shingle already in place, with the gagestop against the butt of the same. The shingle to be laid is then placed with its butt against the end of the hatchet and after being properly positioned is held until nailed.

By actual experience it has been found that by means of a gage of this character shingles may be much more quickly placed and properly positioned than with the use of the Wellknown chalk-line. Its use is especially desirable where a number of men are employed in shingling, as they may each operate independently, it not being necessary for them to waiteach time for the line to be marked.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details-of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gage of the class described, the combination with clamping devices arranged to engage oppositeportions of a hatchet-handle or the like, of means for moving the clamping devices with relation to each other, and a gage-stop carried by one of the devices and extending across the handle.

2. In a gage of the class described, the combination with a clamping-collar, of a clamp- ICO ing device movably mounted within the collar, means for moving the clamping device with relation to the collar, and a gage-stop carried by one of the clamping elements.

3. In a gage of the class described, the combination with a clamping-collar, of a clamping device i'novably mounted within the collar, means carried by the collar and engaging the clamping device for moving the same, and a gage-stop carried by the clamping demac.

4. In a gage of the class described, the combination with a clamping-collar, of a clamping-plate movably mounted within the collar, an adjusting-screw passing through the collar and bearing against the plate, and an offset gage-stop carried by the plate and located at one end of the collar.

5. In a gage ot' the class described, the combination with a clamping-collar, of a clampplate located within the collar and projecting beyond both ends of the same, said plate having outstanding guide projections that engage over the edges of the collar, a clampscrew passing through the collar and bearl bination with clamping devices arranged to engage opposite portions of a hatchet-handle or the like, of a separate gage-stop carried by one of the clamping devices and arranged across the handle.

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

SETH E. SMITH.

Witnesses:

ED. S. MONTGOMERY, J. S. LARSON.

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