Improvements in and connected with Combination Tools.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL DITIONIN
Improvements in and connected with Combination Tools.
I, JOHN HENRY KEELEY MILLAR, of 49, Tousley Hill, Wandsworth, London,
S.W., Engineer and Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
My improved combination tool is designed to take the place of a number of
separate tools used by hand and is especially useful for carpenters, plumbers and
other workmen as well as for private or domestic use.
The tool consists of a handle or holder preferably of the shape usually used for
turnscrews and such tools, and to this handle are attached in the manner herein-
after described any convenient number of chisels, gouges, awls, gimlets, screw-
drivers, spanners, or other like tools.
The handle consists of two side pieces made from stamped or cast metal held
together at the top or wider end by being screwed to a piece, or to pieces of wood
between said side pieces. To the other end of the handle the tools enumerated.
above are attached by means of a bolt and nut, piu or rivet passing through them
and the handle, the tools being free to turn together or separately in the handle
when required. A second pin, bolt or rivet which can be removed, is also passed
through the handle and the tools so as to hold them rigid when required.
Each of the tools have two holes for the second pin or bolt arranged in such
a manner that the tool required for use can be put in position and the second pin
or bolt can be thrust through it and the tools not in use, so as to hold all rigid.
The handle is made sufficiently large for the tools to fold or turn back into it
when not in use. If desired, longer tools may be carried separately and attached
to the handle by the two pins or bolts herein referred to, or some or all of the
tools may be provided with slots or grooves into which bradawls, gimlets or other
small tools may be fitted.
The second pin or bolt may be dispensed with if desired, in which case the first
bolt would be fitted with a winged or fly nut so that the tools could be screwed
up tightly when in any desired position."
Instead of using the second bolt or pin, the tools may be made with indenta-
tions forming a pin or raised part on one side and a recess or groove on the other
side, each tool fitting those next it on the handle, so that they are rigid when
the winged bolt and nut is screwed tightly. In this case it is desirable that the
sides of the handle should be nearer together at the upper end so that the other
ends will spring apart as the nut is loosened.
The handle or any of the tools may be marked with a scale of inches or other
measurements.

page_text: Connect WITH Cation
I, JOHN HENRY KEELEY MILLAR, of 49, Tonsley Hill, Wandsworth, London,
S.W., Engineer and Millwright, 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:―
My improved combination tool is designed to take the place of a number of
separate tools used by hand, and is especially useful for carpenters, plumbers, and
other workmen, as well as for private or domestic use.
The tool consists of a handle or holder preferably of the shape usually used for
turnscrews and such tools and to this handle are attached in the manner herein-
after described, any convenient number of chisels, gouges, files, awls, gimlets,
screwdrivers, spanners or other like tools.
The handle consists of two side plates or pieces made from stamped or cast
metal held together at the top or wider end by being screwed to a block formed
of one or more pieces of wood or other suitable substance placed between said
side pieces. To the other end of the handle the tools enumerated above are
attached to the holder by means of a bolt and feather nut passing through them,
the tools being free to turn together or separately in the handle when the bolt is
loosened. The said bolt which can be entirely withdrawn when required for the
insertion of new tools, is also passed through the front end of the side plates
which form the handle of the tool so as to hold them rigid in the handle when
required for use.
Each of the side plates and each of the tools has one hole for the bolt and a
stud on one face and two recesses on the other. These recesses engage alternately
with the stud on the adjoining tool according to the position of such tool, and
are arranged in such a manner that the tool required for use can be quickly put
in position on the bolt together with the other tools not in use, so as to hold all
rigid with the aid of said studs and recesses.
The handle is hollow or open between the block and the bolt, and it is made
sufficiently long and large for most of the tools to fold and turn back into it when
not in use. If desired, longer tools such as saw blades or files may be carried
separately and attached to the handle by the bolt herein referred to, or some or
all of the tools may be provided with slots or grooves into which bradawls,
gimlets or other small tools may be fitted.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of a
to my invention.
Fig. 2 shews a front elevation of same.
combination tool" constructed according
Fig. 3 shews a sectional side elevation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 shews an elevation of one of the tools separately.
Fig. 5 shews a device for fixing a bradawl or similar tool into one of the tools.
a is the open handle of the combination tool which is preferably made so as to
resemble the handle of a screw driver. The tools are pivotted in between the
fore ends of the handle a upon the tool c. The tools can be held firmly
is position by screwing up the winged nut . Each tool at its pivot end is pro-
vided on one face with a small projecting stud and on the other face with two
shallow recesses 62 on either side of the centre hole for the bolt c, and lengthwise
of the tool. The tools are fitted together so that the stud on one face will
engage one of the shallow recesses in the tool next it, and the effect of this

page_text: arrangement will be that the tools are held in either position i.c. when turned
down into the handle, or when opened out for use, when the nut c¹ on the pin c
is screwed up.
To increase the efficiency of the tool a bradawl (see Fig. 5) may be fixed in
one end of either tool, a dovetailed slot is formed in the upper end of the tool j
and the hole for the pivot pin is elongated. To fix the bradawl, the winged
nut c¹ is loosened and the tool is pushed outwards beyond the other tools, this
movement being allowed for by the elongated hole 2 The bradawl is then in-
serted in the dovetailed slot, the tool drawn back and the nut retightened,
which locks the bradawl firmly is position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my suid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, P declare that what
I claim is:
(3) A hollow or open handle for holding a number of spanners, files or other
tools, consisting of two metal side plates or pieces joined together at their outer
ends by a block of wood or other suitable material and connected at their fore
ends by a removable bolt with winged nut, as herein described and set forth.
(2) A combination tool consisting of the handle described in Claim 1 together
with spanners, files or other tools made with special shanks for use in said handle,
as herein described and set forth.
(3) In a combination tool as described in Claim 2, the use of special tools as
specified therein, but with elongated bolt holes, and furnished with dovetail slots
to receive the shanks of small tools; and of small tools, such as drills bradawls,
gimlets and the like, having dovetail shanks to fit such slots, as herein described
and set forth.
Dated this 20th day of Nocomilier 1899.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Agent for Applicant, 83, Cannon Street, London, E.C.