USRE4841E - Improvement in snuffers - Google Patents

Description

o. w. sTow 8L' A. BARNES,

Candle Sn uffers.

N0. 4,841. Reis4suedApri\2,1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN sNuFFERs..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1537.13, dated November 24, 1857; extended seven years; reissue No. 4,841, dated April 2, 1872...

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ORSON STOW'and vAUGUSTUS BARNES, o'f Sonthington, in the dle-snuiiers.struck np from two pieces of sheet metal, and of the peculiar construction of the win g part and handle, as hereinafter described.A

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective vlew of a pair of snniers embodying ourinvention.

blank for t-he wing or other halt', the handle thereof being swaged. Fig. 4 is a vertical fsection ofthe wing on the line w. Fig. 1. Fig. 5

v isa plan view of a portion of the handle and j bowl, showing that the central bead in the handle vanishes at' the bowl. Figs. A6 and 7 are transverse sections of the handle on lines y y and z z, respectively; and Fig. S is a central longitudinal section of a portion of the handle and its bowl.-

Our improved snuiers are' composed of two pieces only, eachof which is cut from sheet metal by means ofdies. The b owl A' and handle B are blanked. out in the forni shown in Fig. 2. The front leg a is cut from the point The other legs 'a/ a' are cutfrom'inside of the bows c c, as indicated by the broken lines d, Fig. 2. The bow c and the handle B are then swaged or struck np in a die which will form the central corrugatio'n or'hollow ridge n. The bowl is lformed byl bending the blank', Fig. 2, on the line l until the bent portion is perpendicular to the body ot' said blank; then again on line.

2, lwhich will form the top of the vbowl A, when itis in the form shown in Figs. 1 ande. By

Fig. 2 is a plan viewA of the blank from which onehalf of saidsnuff: ers is formed. Fig. is a plan view ofthe this construction ofthe wing the sharp 'edge ot' the sheet' metal -forms the cutting-edgef, and the wing D lprojects upward .from neer said edge.

On-each of the handles B B the central cor rugation n isenlarged, as at h, andprojects lupward-impone handle and downward in the opposite handle, so that when the two parts are placed together a recess is formed in which an ordinary sanfter-spring may be placed, if

desired, to hold the blades closed when not the handle ot' the bowl part, Figs. 5 and 8, this Y corrugation vanishes at the bowl by tapering that is, contract-ing both sidewise andiiatwise, in contradistinction to spreading sidewise. In the handle ofthe wing part, Fig. 3,

1 this vanishes in the broad portion of the hanf die near the wing.

On each side ofthe cox'rugation'a is abend, o, clearly shown in the sectional views Figs. '6 and 7. rlhis band o may gradually taper and vanish, as .it ,reachesthe bow or the end of the handle opposite the bowl, but the corrugation continues until it reaches the bow c, at which point it branches or divides into two,

hollow ridges or'oorrugations, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. y

This form for a sheet-metal handle possesses great advantage over others by being strengthened 1n every direction the corrugation strengthening the handle vertically, andthev bands o o laterally; The bands o o are o1nitedat the bows c c, said' parts heilig suiiicient- .1y`strong without them; but the bauds are useful in the stra-ight portion of the handle B B, in' order to give them the necessary lateral strength to sustain all the .uses that they'may be subjected to; thus the handles, although constructed of sheet metal, are sutliciently strong tp be used for all the ordinary purposes I lstrengerth tothe handle ai: the point fjnnction 'with the bowl, Where a fracture is most common, and which point cannot be t-hus strengthened by a. bead which vanishes by spreading sirlewise.

We-claim as onr invention- Y 1. The herein-described.candle-snu'er, con-A strnetenlof two pie-ces of ysheet: metal, struck up -i'nto form, substantially as und for the purpose described. .j

- 2. The peculiar construction of the wing D,

* bent, as shown and. described, so as to form e Ygoed cnttingledge, and ellen? the wing toy l project; upward near said edge. z

3. The sheet-metall handle, having a. central 'corrugation erhellen' ridge,'wl1iel1 extends longitudinally -with said handle, and vanishes at the bo'wl by tapering both sidewise and flatwise, substantially :is before set forth.

ORSON W. STOW. AUGUSTUS BARNES.V Witnesses:

JOHN Grammy, W. S. MERRILL'.

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