AN IMPROVED MULTIPLE TOOL
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michel Baille, of Faubourg St. Honoré, No. 124,
at Paris, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MULTIPLE
TOOL."
Sealed the 28th July 1874, and dated the 18th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michel Baille at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th February 1874.
I, MICHEL BAILLE, of Faubourg St. Honoré, No. 124, at Paris,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MULTIPLE TOOL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a tool constructed in two parts or members
in such manner that it can be employed to perform the functions of
several tools which are usually separate.
The first member alone can be used as a hammer, a measure, or a
screwdriver, or for drawing nails; the second member by itself can be
employed as a scraper, rasp, or file, or for prizing open boxes, and the

page_text: two members together can be made to serve the purpose
of many
tools
consisting of two parts jointed together, such as vices, pincers, universal
spanners, and pipe tongs. For this purpose the one member is made
with a shank tapering in thickness to the one end which is brought to
an edge to serve as a screwdriver; at the opposite end it terminates in
a curved horn with a notch that can be used for drawing nails. Near
this end there is a projection on the one side which serves as a hammer
head, and a projection on the other side which forms one jaw of a vice.
The shank is on the one side graduated to serve as a measure for a
portion of its length, and is made with two or more serrated hollows to
form jaws of pipe tongs, while on the upper part of the other side it is
toothed as a rack under the projection which forms the vice jaw.
The second member of the tool consists also of a shank spread out
thin and serrated at one end to serve for prizing boxes open, and file cut
along its sides to serve as a rasp or file. Its upper part is somewhat
curved and made with a mortice through which the shank of the first
member of the tool can be passed, and in this mortice there is a tooth
which can be made to engage with any part of the rack on the first
member.
The second member terminates in a square head which forms a jaw of
the vice, the other jaw of which is presented by the projection on the
first member, and this head has an edge made somewhat sharp to act
as a scraper.
When the first member is passed through the mortice of the second
and the tooth of the mortice engaged in the rack on grasping the two
shanks their vice jaws are made to pinch an object placed between
them so as to act as a vice or spanner, and the width between the jaws
can be varied by engaging the mortice tooth of the one member in
different parts of the rack on the other.
In the shank of the second member there are two or more serrated
hollows which can be brought to face the corresponding hollows in the
shank of the first member for the purpose of gripping a pipe or other
round object in the manner of pipe tongs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Michel Baille in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHEL
BAILLE, of Faubourg St. Honoré, No. 124, at Paris, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Michel Baille, Her special
license that I, the said Michel Baille, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Michel Baille, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MULTIPLE TOOL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Michel Baillie, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michel Baille, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say:-
This Invention relates to a tool constructed in two parts or members
in such manner that it can be employed to perform the functions of
several tools which are usually separate.
The first member alone can be used as a hammer, a measure, or a
screwdriver, or for drawing nails; the second member by itself can be

page_text: employed as a scraper, rasp, or file, or for prizing open boxes, and the
two members together can be made to serve the purpose of many tools
consisting of two parts jointed together, such as vices, pincers, universal
spanners, and pipe tongs. For this purpose the one member is made
with a shank tapering in thickness to the one end which is brought to
an edge to serve as a screwdriver; at the opposite end it terminates in a
curved horn with a notch that can be used for drawing nails. Near this
end there is a projection on the one side which serves as a hammer head
and a projection on the other side which forms one jaw of a vice. The
shank is on the one side graduated to serve as a measure for a portion of
its length, and is made with two or more serrated hollows to form jaws
of pipe tongs, while on the upper part of the other side it is toothed as a
rack under the projection which forms the vice jaw.
The second member of the tool consists also of a shank spread out
thin and serrated at one end to serve for prizing boxes open, and file cut
along its sides to serve as a rasp or file. Its upper part is somewhat
curved and made with a mortice through which the shank of the first
member of the tool can be passed, and in this mortice there is a tooth
which can be made to engage with any part of the rack on the first
member.
The second member terminates in a square head which forms a jaw of
the vice, the other jaw of which is presented by the projection on the
first member, and this head has an edge made somewhat sharp to act as
a scraper.
When the first member is passed through the mortice of the second
and the tooth of the mortice engaged in the rack, on grasping the two
shanks their vice jaws are made to pinch an object placed between
them so as to act as a vice or spanner, and the width between the jaws
can be varied by engaging the mortice tooth of the one member in
different parts of the rack on the other.
In the shank of the second member there are two or more serrated
hollows which can be brought to face the corresponding hollows in the
shank of the first member for the purpose of gripping a pipe or other
round object in the manner of pipe tongs.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a face view of the first member; Fig. 2, a face view
of the second member; and Fig. 3, represents a side view of both

page_text: members put together of the improved multiple tool constructed according
to my Invention.
The first member A has a shank a tapering to a screwdriver point
at a', the shank a being graduated to serve as a measure. At the head
is a curved horn a notched to be used for drawing nails, and a Irammer
head a which serves also as a fulcrum when the horn a² is used, and a
projection a' which forms the one jaw of a vice when the two members
are put together. On the shank are formed two serrated hollows a³ to
form sides of pipe tongs, and on the other side are teeth a to receive a
stud tooth of the other member.
The second member B has a shank 6 tapering to a serrated end b¹
which can be used for prizing the shank, being file cut on the edges to
serve as a rasp or file. The upper part is made with a mortice 1ª
through which the shank of A can be passed, and in this mortice is a
stud tooth b³ which can be inserted into any one of the spaces between
the teeth a so as to form a stop fulcrum on which the two members A
and B can work so as to pinch an object between the vice jaws a³, b',
or between the serrated hollows a³, b³. The red lines in Fig. 3 shew a
position of B when the stud tooth b³ is moved down the distance of 5
of the teeth a so as to give wider space between the jaws a', b*.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim, the use of a multiple tool
consisting of the two members A and B which can be separately used or
which can be used when put together, substantially in the manner and
for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michel Baille, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
of Boulevard Magenta, No. 32,
at Paris.
M. BAILLE. (L.S.)