Improvements in Combination Tools.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 23rd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Tools.
We, OSCAR ERNEST MORSE, and EVERETT HIRAM BRUNDAGE, both of
Montana Street, Dillon, in the County of Beaverhead, and State of Montana,
United States of America, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of combination tools
wherein are combined a hatchet, hammer, and nail puller arranged upon a suitable
handle so as to be readily applied for use; and the object of the invention is to
provide a device of this character of a simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction
which shall present certain features of novelty and advantages for use over
other similar devices heretofore employed, all as will be hereinafter fully set
forth.
The handle of the combination tool may be formed of wood of any preferred
style and size, such for example as is commonly used for hatchets and hammers,
and the head of the tool is formed with a socket to receive the handle and provided
at one side with a blade having a cutting edge and at its opposite side with a
hammer head adapted for driving nails and the like. The handle is formed with
a longitudinal axial bore of cylindrical cross-section and the head of the tool is
formed with an elongated recess extending through it and corresponding to the
bore. A nail pulling device provided with a stem or shank of circular cross
section is adapted to slide freely in the bore of the handle, said shank or atem being
provided at its upper extremity with a screw, the space left between the top of the
shank and the head of the screw being adapted to receive a tooth formed upon one
end of a dog pivoted in a lateral recess in the handle, the opposite end of which
dog is arranged in position to be readily pressed by the fingers of the operator and
provided with a spring engaging an abutment in the handle and adapted to hold
the tooth normally in position to engage the recess in the shank. At its opposite
end adjacent to the tooth, the dog is formed with a reduced portion engaging with
a stop formed in the handle to limit the movement of said dog. The screw at the
upper end of the shank is caused to engage the tooth of the dog and push the same
outwardly when the nail pulling device is inserted in the recess in the tool. At
its opposite end the shank is provided with a jaw which engages with the nail to
be removed at one side thereof and above said jaw the shank is formed with a
transverse aperture through which extends the pivoted member of the nail pulling
device which is pivoted to the shank and provided with a jaw adapted to engage
the nail to be removed at the opposite side thereof from the other jaw. These
jaws are provided with sharpened extremities and concaved inner faces in order
that they may the better engage and grip the nail. The pivoted member of the
nail pulling device is formed at its opposite end with a shoe adapted to engage the
surface of the article wherein the nail is driven, said shoe being formed with a
widened surface, in order that it may not sink into the surface while the nail is
being removed.
When it is desired to use merely the hammer or blade of the tool the nail
pulling device will be inserted, in the recess of the tool and held in place therein
by the dog which forms a latch for this purpose, and when it is desired to use the
nail pulling device the dog is pressed so that its tooth is disengaged from the notch
in the shank whereupon the nail pulling device will drop down after which it is

page_text: turned way around so that the shoe projects at right angles to the blade of the
tool. The jaws are thereupon inserted in the wood at opposite sides of the head
of the nail to be drawn and by using the shoe as a fulcrum the tool handle is
employed as a lever to prize or draw the nail from the wood.
Dated this 7th day of January 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
Improvements in Combination Tools.
We OSCAR ERNEST MORSE and EVERETT HIRAM BRUNDAGE, both of
Montana Street, Dillon, in the County of Beaverhead, and State of Montana,
United States of America, Merchants 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 relates to certain improvements in that class of combination tools
wherein are combined a hatchet, hammer and nail puller arranged upon a suitable
handle so as to be readily applied for use; and the object of the invention is to
provide a device of this character of a simple, inexpensive and efficient construction,
which shall present certain features of novelty and advantages for use over other
similar devices heretofore employed, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth. The
novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.
Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in
both the views.
Figure 1 is an axial longitudinal section taken through the head and handle of
the device, showing the nail pulling device in its closed position; and
Figure 2 is an edge view of the combination tool, showing the nail pulling
device arranged in position for use.
In these views, I represents the handle of the combination tool, which may be
formed of wood of any preferred style and size, such for example as is commonly
used for hatchets and hammers, and 2 represents the head of the tool formel with
a socket to receive the handle 1 and provided at one side with a blade 3 having a
cutting edge and at its opposite side with a hammer head 4 adapted for driving
nails and the like.
The handle 1 is formed with a longitudinal axial bore 5 of cylindrical cross
section, and the head 2 of the tool is formed with a recess 6 extending through it
and corresponding to the bore 5, said recess being elongated, as clearly seeu in
Figure 1.
The nail pulling device is provided with a stem or shank 7 of circular cross
section having a reduced upper portion so as to be adapted to slide freely in the
bore 5 of the handle 1, and said shank or stem 7 is provided at its upper extremity
with a screw 7, a space 8 being left between the top of the shank and the head of
the screw, adapted to receive a tooth 9 formed upon one end of a dug 10 pivoted
in a lateral recess 11 in the handle 1. the opposite end 12 of said dog being arranged
in position to be readily pressed by the fingers of the operator, and being provided
with a spring 13 engaging an abutment in the handle and adapted to hold the
tooth 9 normally in position to engage the recess 8 in the shank 7. At its opposite
end adjacent to the tooth 9, the dog 10 is formed with a reduced portion 14
adapted to engage a stop formed in the handle 1 to limit the movement of
said dog.
The screw 7 at the upper end of the shank 7 is adapted to engage the tooth 9

page_text: of the dog 10 and push the same outwardly when the nail-pulling device is inserted
in the recess in the tool.
At its opposite end the shank 7 is provided with a jaw 15 adapted to engage the
nail to be removed at one side thereof, and above said jaw 15 the shank is formed
with a transverse aperture through which extends the pivoted member 17 of the
nail-pulling device, which is pivoted to the shank 7 as indicated at 16 and provided
with a jaw 18 adapted to engage the nail to be removed, at the opposite side
thereof from the jaw 15. These jaws 15 and 18 are provided with sharpened
extremities and concaved inner faces in order that they may the better engage and
grip the nail, as clearly indicated in the drawings.
The pivoted member 17 of the nail pulling device is formed at its end opposite
the jaw 18 with a shoe 19, adapted to engage the surface of the article wherein
the nail is driven, said shoe being formed with a widened surface as indicated,
in order that it may not sink into the surface while the nail is being removed.
When it is desired to use merely the hammer or blade of the tool, the nail
pulling device will be inserted in the recess of the tool and held in place therein
by the dog 10 which forms a latch for this purpose, and when it is desired to use
the nail pulling device the dog 10 is pressed so that its tooth is disengaged from
the notch in the shank, whereupon the nail pulling device will drop down to the
position indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1, after which it is turned way around
so that the shoe 19 projects at right angles to the blade 3 of the tool. The jaws 15
and 18 are thereupon inserted in the wood at opposite sides of the head of the nail
to be drawn, and by using the shoe 19 as a fulcrum the tool handle 1 is employed
as a lever to prize or draw the nail from the wood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,
1. A combination tool, comprising a hend and a handle, said head being formed
with a recess, a nail pulling device adapted to be enclosed in the recess and
provided with a shank having a jaw at one end and a second jaw pivoted to said
shank and provided at its extremity with a shoe, and a latch adapted to engage
the sbank of the nail pulling device and hold the same in its enclosed position,
said nail pulling device being adapted to be rotated when withdrawn from said
recess, to bring it out of coincidence with said recess, substantially as set
forth.
2. A combination tool, comprising a head having a socket to receive a handle
and having a recess extending through it and adapted to receive a nail pulling
device, said handle having a longitudinal bore corresponding with the recess in the
head and being provided with a dog having a tooth extending into said bore, and
a nail pulling device adapted to be inserted in the recess in the head and having a
shank adapted to play in the bore of the handle and provided with a recess
adapted to receive the tooth of the dog, and means for holding the nail pulling
device out of said recess in the head while in use, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of September 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.