US888841A - Tack-puller. - Google Patents

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No. 888,841. PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.-

J. E. NAUDAIN.

TACK FULLER. APPLICATION FILED JULY16, 1907.

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TACK-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 16, 1907.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 383,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. NAUDAIN, a

, citizen of the United States, residing at Sparrows Point, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Tack-Pullers, of which the f0 owingis a specification.

This invention relates to an instrument for pulling tacks from carpets, matting and other oor coverings.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved tack-puller that can be used for drawing tacks that hold floor-coverings without requiring the operator to stoo or kneel.

The invention is illustrated in t e accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of the tack-puller showing it in position to engage the head of a tack. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the operating end of the tack-puller. v

The metal part of the tack-puller in actual practice, comprises a strip of iron or steel about three thirty-seconds of an inch thick, and a. half inch wide. The shank, 1, is straight and at one end may have a handle, 2, of wood or any preferred material; near its lower end the shank has a quarter-twist, 3, and its extremity has a s lit claw, 4, between the claw and the sai quarter-twist is a short straight portion, 5.

The claw which is to engage the head of a tack projects forward, and at the rear side and at the back of the claw, is a suitable fulcrum, 6, attached to the short straight portion 5, by means of a rivet, 7. In order to push or slide the claw forward and force its thin edge below the head of a tack, I provide at the back an inclined footresser or bearing, 8. This foot-Presser an the fulcrum, 6, are made of a single bar of metal; the upper end of the foot-presser has a quarter-twist, 9, and is attached by a rivet, 10, to

'the shank, 1, above its quarter-twist, 3.

Thus the two rivets, 7 and 10, serve to hold the fulcrum and foot-presser securely to the shank.

As the u per part of the foot-presser is attached to t e shank, 1, and therefrom has a downward inclination, its top surface affords a bearing upon which the toe-part of a persons' shoe may rest. The top surface of the inclined bearing is smooth so as to slip from under the operators foot, and therefore the o erator can place the toeart of his foot on t 1e incline, 8, as shown in ig. 1, and then by bearing the said toe-part down, the device will slip forward and the thin edge of the claw, 4, will engage below the head of the tack. The hand of the operator will then move the handle end of the shank backward,

which, operating as a lever, will result in pulling the tack easily. Very little backward movement of the handle-end is required to draw a tack.

Having described the invention and its mode of operation, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An instrument for pulling tacks comprising a fiat operating bar having a twist adjacent its lower end and a claw at said end below the twist which projects forwardly, and a flat metal fulcrum bar secured to the lower twisted end behind the claw of the operating bar and extending rearwardly and upwardly from said claw and the upper end of said fulcrum bar being secured to the op erating bar.

2. An instrument for pulling tacks comprising a flat operating bar having a twist adjacent its lower end which end is formed into a split claw and a fiat fulcrum bar having its two ends connected to the lower end of the operating bar with its portion between the connected ends extending rearwardly behind the twisted end of-the o erating bar.

Intestimony whereof I a my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN E. N AUDAIN.

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