US856822A - Hammer. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JUNE 11, 1901. I

s. s. STYUHAG.

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APPLIUATIO an FEB. 7, 1907.

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HAMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed Fehrtar r 7,1907. Serial No. 356,131.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SoREN S. STUIIAG, a subject of the King of Norway, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hammer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hammers, and especially to hand hammers such as used in driving nails.

The object of the invention is to produce a hammer having means for holding the nail so as to start it in the wood without necessitating that the nail be held in the fingers when the first blows of the hammer are struck. The hammer is especially useful facilitating the application of nails in inaccessible places such as a corner.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hammer constructed according to my invention, a portion of the handle being broken away; this view represents a nail held by the hammer ready to be started in the wood into which the nail is to be driven; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the forward portion or poll of the hammer, as viewed from the right of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the hammer head, the body of which is of any suitable form and attached to a handle 2. The head of the hammer is formed into a poll 3 which projects forwardly and terminates in an enlarged head or knob 4. In the side of this knob 4 and on the side thereof disposed toward the handle 2, a channel or groove 5 is formed, said channel being dis osed parallel with the axis of the poll 3, as indicated. In the poll just beyond this channel there is seated a post6 which is driven tight in a transverse opening 7 formed in the poll as shown. The post 6 projects beyond the axis of the groove 5 so that its lower face, as viewed in Fig. 1, may operate as a stop or abutment against which may rest the head 8 of a nail 9 lying in the groove in the manner indicated. On the side of the post 6 remote from the groove, an upwardly projecting pin 10 is mounted in the post, and about this pin there is disposed a coiled spring 11. The lower portion of this spring is formed into a downwardly extending shank 12, running substantially parallel with the axis of the poll and offset laterally from the position of the groove, as indicated in Fig. 2. At its lower extremity this shank 12 is formed into a laterally projecting finger 13, which is slightly curved, as indicated in Fig. 3, to conform to the periphery of the hammer at the knob 4. This finger 13 extends transversely of the groove 5, as shown, and on the side of the groove opposite the shank 12 it is bent outwardly to form a lip 1 f, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 3.

When there is not a nail in the groove, the inner portion of the lip 14 at its junction with the finger 13, lies against the face of the knob 4, as will be readily understood. \Vhen it is desired to apply a nail in the groove, the body of the nail is held in substantially the position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and so that the nail rests against the face of the knob. The nail is then forced toward the right, passing readily under the lip 1 1 and into the groove, whereupon it is slid longitudinally upwardly in the groove until the head of the nail rests against the under side of the post, as shown in Fig. 1.

The coils of the spring 11 about the pin 10 tend, of course, to press the finger 13 toward the nail, so that it exerts a resilient pressure upon the side of the nail operating to hold the nail in place when the nail is being started in the Wood. l/Vith the nail in the position shown in Fig. 1, a light blow is struck with the hammer so as to seat the point of the nail in the wood. By an upward movement of the hammer, the nail quickly (lisengages itself from the finger 13, whereupon the hammer is used to drive the nail in the usual manner.

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

1. A hammer having a poll with an enlarged end or head and provided with a vertical groove in the head and a transverse opening above the head and in alinement with said groove, a post secured in the opening of the poll and provided with a pin projecting from its upper face, and a spring coiled upon the said pin and having one end engaging the poll, the other end of the spring extending downwardly approximately parallel with the poll and terminating in a curved and laterally projecting finger having an outwardly bent lip and extending across the groove of the head of the poll and normally engaging said head.

2. A hammer having a poll provided with a projection extending laterally therefrom and having a vertical pin on its upper face, the poll being provided with a Vertical groove below the projection and in alinement therewith, and a spring coiled upon the pin of the projection and having one end engaging the poll, the other end of the spring extending downwardly approximately parallel with the poll and terminating in a curved and laterally projecting finger extending across the groove of the poll and normally engaging said poll.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

SOREN s. sTUH'Ae.

WVitnesses:

HAAVARD KoLsTAD, OTTO OLSEN.

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