Improvements in Handles for Picks and other Tools.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Picks and other Tools.
I, JAMES SEATH BURLEY, of 96, Great Wellington Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Renfrew, North Britain, Timber Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object the making or providing of handles for
picks or other tools with improved parts, which serve for securely holding the pick
or tool without requiring any diminution of the hand ends or other parts of the
handles.
In carrying out my invention I make the tool end of the handle in the usual
way with the extreme end the largest part, the thickness tapering from the extreme
end for a suitable distance; and I apply a metal sheath upon the part fitting the
socket of the pick or tool. Instead, however, of making the sheath in one piece as
heretofore, I make the sheath in two parts which are easily applied to the tool end.
When the divided sheath is made of suitable thickness and taper the pick or tool
can be first passed over the tool end of the handle somewhat further than the
length of the sheath; the two parts of the sheath can then be applied; and the
pick or tool can finally be forced upon the sheath towards the end of the handle so
as to become securely wedged and fixed.
The half sheaths are by preference made with indentations which engage in
notches formed in the handle end, and determine the position of the half sheaths
upon the handle. And, if found desirable the inner ends of the half sheaths may
be provided with catches or devices to connect them to each other and prevent
them from bending apart from the handle.
Dated this Seventeenth day of February 1891.,
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Picks and other Tools.
I, JAMES SEATH BURLEY, of 96, Great Wellington Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Renfrew, North Britain, Timber Merchant, 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, that is
to say:-
.
My said invention has for its object the making or providing of handles for
picks or other tools with improved parts, which serve for securely holding the pick
or tool without requiring any diminution of the hand ends or other parts of the
handles.
In carrying out my invention I make the tool end of the handle in the usual way
with the extreme end the largest part, the thickness tapering from the extreme
end for a suitable distance; and I apply a metal sheath upon the part fitting the
socket of the pick or tool. Instead, however, of making the sheath in one piece
as heretofore I make the sheath in two parts which are easily applied to the
tool end.
The half sheaths are by preference made with indentations or internal ribs which
engage in notches formed in the handle end and determine the position of the half
sheaths upon the handle. And, if found desirable the inner ends of the half

page_text: sheaths may be provided with catches or devices to connect them to each other and
prevent them from bending apart from the handle.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing by way of example two applications of my
improved handle.
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Figure, 1, on the drawings is a side elevation and Figure, 2, an end elevation
showing my improved handle as applied to a pick. Figures, 3, and 4, are enlarged
side and inside elevations respectively of one half sheath; and Figures 5, and 6,
are side and end elevations showing my improvements as applied to a hammer.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
As shown in the drawings I make the tool end, E, of the handle, H, with the
extreme end the largest part, the thickness tapering from the extreme end for a
suitable distance, beyond which it may be made larger as shown at, L, the pick or
hammer head not requiring to be put on from the hand end. I apply a metal sheath, S,
made in halves upon the part, E, fitting the socket of the pick, P, or hammer, A.
When the divided sheath, S, is made of suitable thickness and taper as shown the
pick, P, or hammer head, A, can be first passed over the tool end, E, of the
handle, H, somewhat further than the length of the sheath, S; the two parts of
the sheath, S, can then be applied and the pick, l', or hammer head, A, can be
finally forced upon the sheath, S, towards the end, E, of the handle, H, so as to
become securely wedged and fixed.
The half sheaths, S, are each made with internal projections, B, which engage in
notches formed in the handle end, E, and determine the position of the half
sheaths, S, upon the handle end. Slots, C, are shown as formed in the inner ends
of each of the half sheaths, S, to permit of a metal or other band being used to
connect the half sheaths, S, to each other and to hold them close to the handle
end, E, but where the parts are properly formed so as to fit accurately, no connecting
device is necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is
In handles for picks and other tools applying a pair of metal half sheaths to the
tool end substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of November 1891.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.