IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREWDRIVERS AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS OR TOOLS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pacific Taglis, of No. 5, Adolphus Street, New
Cross, in the County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SCREWDRIVERS AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS OR TOOLS.”
Sealed the 20th June 1871, and dated the 21st December 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pacific Taglis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st December 1870.
I, PACIFIC TAGLIS, of No. 5, Adolphus Street, New Cross, in the
County of (Kent), do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention.
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREWDRIVERS AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS OR TOOLS,"
to be as follows:-
:-
I propose to have the blade or rod of any hand-turning instrument or
tool so formed (or so altered) as to possess a protuberance or notch, or a
groove round it (one or more, or a combination of both), cither fixed or
moveable, with or without a holder, of any size, form, and material
adapted thereto, whether on the blade alone or on its handle, or on
both.

page_text: And that having for its object the holding of the tool steadily,
uprightly, in constant contact, and regulating the pressure on or against
the screw (in the case of screwdrivers), or the work (in the case of
other tools), and so on with the one hand, while the other (though it
be the left) can revolve the instrument freely, comfortably, and without
much control, whereby casiness of labour, saving of time and trouble,
prevention of accidents are secured without any material alteration in
price.
The above-mentioned holder may simply be a cylinder (of any
material) placed on the middle part of the tool, resting or hanging on
the said protuberance (or in the said groove or both), thus while the one
hand presses upon the holder the other hand placed on the handle turns
the tool through the holder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Pacific Taglis in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PACIFIC
TAGLIS, of No. 5, Adolphus Street, New Cross, in the County of Kent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Pacific Taglis, Her special licence
that I, the said Pacific Taglis, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Pacific Taglis, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREWDRIVERS AND
SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS OR TOOLS,' upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Pacific Taglis, 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
"

page_text: 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 Pacific Taglis, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
I propose to have the blade or rod of any hand-turning instrument
or tool so formed (or so altered) as to possess a protuberance or knob,
or a groove round it (one or more, or a combination of both), either
fixed or moveable with or without a holder (of any size, form, and
material adapted thereto, whether on the blade alone or on its handle,
or on both.
And that having for its object the holding of the instrument steadily
and uprightly, in constant contact, and regulating the pressure thereof
on or against the screw (in the case of screwdrivers), or the work (in the
case of cutting tools), and so on with one hand, while the other (though
it be the left hand) can revolve the instrument freely and comfortably
without much control, whereby easiness of labour, saving of time,
trouble, and prevention of accidents are secured without any material
alteration in price.
The above-mentioned holder may simply be a hollow cylinder placed
on the middle part of the tool resting on (or hanging by) the said
protuberance (or groove or both). Thus while the one hand presses
upon the holder the other hand placed on the handle turns the tool
through the holder.
And in order to explain my said Invention more clearly I will
now proceed to describe the means by which it may be effected, reference
being had to the illustrative Drawing accompanying these Presents,
and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked thereon
respectively as follows:-

page_text: A is a handle fixed to the tool in the ordinary way at the taper
part B by the ferrule C; D is a holder made of hard wood or other
suitable material and of any desired size and shape, fitting loosely upon
the part E of the tool, which is made cylindrical to enable the holder D
to revolve freely thereon; F is a shoulder to keep the holder in proper
position on the tool. To use a screwdriver thus constructed it is simply
necessary to embrace the holder D with one hand and with the other
hand placed on the handle A. to turn round the tool in the usual way
and press it against the screw that is to be acted upon. By thus con-
structing a screwdriver it is more convenient to use, is safer, from its not
being liable to slip out of the kerf of the screw to which it is applied,
and enables both hands to be brought into use, and offers numerous
other advantages to the workman.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my
said Invention for improvements in screwdrivers and similar instru-
ments or tools, together with their construction, I would remark in
conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and I
claim combining a loose holder D with a screwdriver or other similar
instrument or tool in the manner and for the purpose above described
and represented by the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pacific Taglis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
PACIFIC TAGLIS.
(L.S.)