provements in Combination Handtools
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept, 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Combination Handtools
HENRY SEARLF, Insurance Broker, 33 Charles Street Bradford, WILI IAM
BANNISTER, Engineer, Picton Street Bradford, HARRY LEECH, Mason,
67 Snakehill Lane Bradford, FREDERICK ILLINGWORTH, Wool Comber,
Heather Bank, Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
An upright, or handle of iron, steel, or other metal, the bottom end being
pointed so as to penetrate wood, with a cross bar of steel at bottom, with holes
therein for screws at one end of the cross bar is a fixed claw, at the other end, a
moveable shoe, which forms the fulcrum and the handle a lever when extracting
nails The point of upright and moveable shoe have holes and screws, so that the
shoc may be fixed at any desirable distance, thereby forming a moveable key of
any size, for unscrewing nuts, bolts, piping and the like The point of handle or
upright, also the fixed claw are milled on the inside, for the better gripping of
nails The top part of the handle acts as a hammer and is forced on to a shoulder
in the lower part of the handle, which is tubular, or it can be made solid throughout
and an ordinary hammer used
Dated this First day of May 1895
We, HENRY SEARLE, Insurance Broker, 33 Charles Street, Biadford Yorks,
WILLIAM BANNISTER Engineer, Picton Street, Bradford, HARRY LEECH,
Mason, 67 Snakehill Lane, Bradford, FREDERICK ILLINGWORTH Wool Comber,
Heather Bank, Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement
This invention elites to improvements in tools, and has for its object to provide
a tool that shall combine in a compact and handy form, several distinct tools, each
capable of a separate use
With this and other minor objects in view we will proceed to describe the
invention with reference to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein
Fig 118 a side view of the tool, and
Fig 2 and 3 views of details thereof
Refering to the drawings, a is a handle or shank of either tubular or solid
construction, terminating at one end in a jaw b, the extremity 6' of which is pointed
or wedge-shaped in order to penetrate wood, and serrated or toothed upon one of
its sides 6, near the aforesaid pointed extremity b

page_text: The jaw is slotted transversely to recuven cross-bar c having an immovable
head e, which proje ts it a right ingle to the said cross bar c and has a wedge
shaped nose of sun lar form to the extremity of the pan b, this nose c² being
also serrated or toothed upon the side c³ which opposes the side of the jaw b
aforesaid
The cross-bar c 1 capable of a lateral adjustment, and of a partial pivotal
movement such cross-bar being provided with holes c through which, and corre-
sponding tapped openings in the Jan, passe-set-screw or its equivalent d
which can be readily removed and repliced in order to allow of the sud
adjustment
The side of the jaw b is preferably cut-away or recessed, to allow of a closer
contact of the head c with same
Upon the other end of the cross bat ca shoe e is provided, such shoe being
substantially of the formn shewn This said shoe is transversely slotted in a
maunti similar to that of the jaw, and is rendered capable of a lateral adjustment
upon the said cro s-bai in the inner befort described It is also capable of a
partial votal movement as will be readily understood
The extremity f of the handle or shank a 1s clusel-pointed and is adapted to be
used as a chisch
If desirable the said handle or shank a may be telescopic and capable of being
disconncuted
In employing the tool for unscrewing or tightening nuts, bolts, or the like, the
requned spice between the jaw 6 and the head c', is determined by re novia the
set-screw and sliding the cross-buc to the right or left hand side, according as
it is desirable to diminish or mere ise the width between such head and jaw
The set screw is then replaced and tightened, thus providing two wrench-like
Jaws b and c capable of securely gripping and turning a nut or the like
The tool may be employed as a bammier the heid c constituting the hammer-
head
In order to extinct a nail, the shoe e is brought into use, the head of such nail
bem gupped between the said shoe e and the opposing side of the jab, the
handle a forming a lever and the shoe e the fulcrum
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
clau is
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1 A tool comprising a handle having a jaw at one end and an adjustable
cross-ban having a fixed head and a movable shoc, substantially as and for the
purpo described and shewn
2 In ambition tool, a handle having a chisel at one end and to minting at
the ot¹ end in a jaw en cd u on on side and transver ely slotted to receive
cross-ba capable of a lateral idju tment and partial pivotal movement, said
cross-being perforated to receive a
et-screw which also ps through the
Jin, such cross-bar having a head at one ord surated upon the side opposing the
corresponding side of the -d Jan transver ely slotted shoe adapted to be
move along ud cross-bar and held at a convenient point by sut-screw which
allows of a partial pivotal movement, all substantially as and for the purpose
described and illustrated
Dated this 19th day of September 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, EC, Agents for Applicants