Patent ID: 9259829
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: B25D,B25G

Claim Text:
1. A hammer comprising: a head including a hammering portion and an oppositely arranged claw portion, the claw portion being at least 2 inches wide curving downwardly and away from the top side of the head toward the handle and including a back end with at least four flat ended teeth separated by at least three, substantially equal “V”-shaped grooves centered on a longitudinal axis of the head with inner edges of each of the “V”-shaped grooves being tapered along-opposite sides of the “V”-shaped groove from adjacent a front of each of the at least four teeth toward a sharp notch formed at a junction of the sides of the “V”-shaped groove and from a top side of each of the at least four teeth inwardly toward a bottom side of each of the at least four teeth, each of the at least four teeth tapering to a smaller thickness adjacent its respective flat end, an outer two of the at least four teeth being substantially equally shaped to each other and an inner at least two of the at least four teeth being substantially equally shaped to each other with the outer two of the at least four teeth having substantially equal terminal widths that are wider than the at least inner two of the at least four teeth having substantially equal terminal widths and all of the at least four teeth being substantially equal in length; a handle attached to the head and extending perpendicularly down from a bottom of the head; and a grip affixed to and surrounding a bottom portion of the handle from above a middle of the handle to below and surrounding a bottom end of the handle, and including a downwardly and outwardly tapering upper portion to a middle portion from which the grip continues tapering downwardly and inwardly toward the bottom end of the handle with an outwardly tapering bottom portion and a substantially flat end, the grip further including a cap portion attached to a top end of the upper portion and the cap portion including a bottom portion of the cap portion extending upwardly away from and substantially parallel to the upper portion of the grip and a top portion of the cap portion extending diagonally inwardly from the bottom toward and affixed to the handle.