An Improved Combination Tool.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Tool.
I, BARTON BALFOUR FELTUS, of Boolcoomatta Station. Mingary, in the Province
of South Australia, Boundary Rider, 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 invention relates to an improved combination tool which shall be of especial
value to fencers, boundary riders, ranchmen and laborers of outlying districts to
be used more particularly for the building and repairing of fences and the like.
The object of my invention is to provide in the one tool means for accomplishing
a number of purposes for which at the present time separate appliances must be
employed.
I accomplish this object by an improved construction of parts whereby there is
combined in the one tool a pair of pincers, a nut and pipe wrench of various sizes, a
wire cutter, a wire strainer and twister, a rule, a wire gauge, a vice or clamp and
means for stamping holes in leather and the like.
I attain these objects by the tool illustrated in the accompanying drawings in
which-
Fig. 1, is a plan of the tool with the jaws closed.
Fig. 2, is a view of one side shewing the wire gauge.
Fig. 3, a view of the opposite side shewing the graduated scale, and
Fig. 4, a front view of the tool shewing the holes used for wire twisting.
Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
I construct my improved combination tool preferably of steel and in two parts,
which are pivoted together to formi handles A A and jaws B B in the ordinary way,
as with pincers or pliers. The pivot consists preferably of a counter sunk bolt C
provided at one end with the nut C. The head of the bolt C being counter-sunk
will allow of the tool being laid flat upon that surface when adapted to certain
uses hereinafter more particularly described.
By means of the nut ( the pivot C may be tightened whereby the two parts
of the tool are held rigid when required for certain purposes.
Each of the aforesaid jaws B is provided upon its inner surface with two rectan-
gular recesses B and B having serrated faces to give a good gripping power. One
of these recesses B¹ is larger than the other, the smaller 12 being nearer to the point
and the face of one jaw is made corresponding in shape and form with that of the
other.
By this special construction of the jaws B the tool may be used for several pur.
poses. It may in the ordinary way when operated by the handles A, be used as
pincers or pliers when the sharp edges formed by the recesses B² provide a good
gripping medium. The tool may by this means be used for drawing nails, straining
wire and the like and for this purpose one of the jaws B is serrated upon its
outside face (as shewn at B³) by which it is prevented from slipping as the tool is
forced over as a lever. Each of the jaws B B is provided with a hole B passing
cut through the back thereof through which the slack end of the wire when gripped
by the jaws B B is passed. The rectangular recesses B1 and B2 may further be

page_text: adapted for holding round cylindrical objects the larger recesses B¹ being suitable
for pipes, tubes and the like and the smaller B₁ for objects of a correspondingly
smaller size such as wire. The outer side face of one of the jaws B is flattened as
at 13 and is thus usable as a hammer and has at one end a hook 136 for pulling up
tacks and the like.
The tool may be also used as a nut wrench or spanner. When adapted for this
purpose the jaws B are adjusted to the required size and either of the recesses B¹
or 12 may be used according to the size or shape of the nut, and if desired they may
be held rigid by means of the nut C¹.
The tool is also provided with wire cutters for different sizes of wire. For this
purpose two corresponding notches or recesses E are provided, one in each of the
two parts of the tool where they overlap near the pivot. The handles A are opened
until the notches or recesses E coincide and form à clear passage. The wire is then
passed through and the tool closed when the edges of the notches or recesses E act
as knives and sever the wire. A further wire cutter may be provided by means
of blades or cutters F upon the inside of the jaws B B. These may be of varying
sizes and adapted to cut wire of different gauges as required.
For the purposes of a wire strainer and twister holes are drilled in the tool into
which the slack ends of wire are placed. Thus for straining wire a hole 1) is drilled
in the body of the tool into which the slack end of the wire is placed when by
turning the appliance the wire is twisted thereon being thereby strained taut and
may be fastened as required.
For twisting wire upon itself I provide a number of holes & drilled in the front
face of the tool preferably two in each jaw as shewn in Figure 4. Through these
holes the slack ends of the wires are passed when by turning the tool they are
twisted upon each other. This device is particularly adaptable for use in forming
twisted wire droppers for maintaining the wires equidistant from each other
between the posts.
For the purpose of a wire gauge a series of graduated holes or notches G of the
requisite size is formed upon the tool preferably upon the outside face of one of
the handles as shewn in Figure 2. A scale H of preferably the inch standard is also
marked upon the outer face of the other handle as shewn in Figure 3.
The inner faces of the handles are provided with notches or recesses I I' of
various shapes and sizes, those upon one handle corresponding with those upon
the other. Pressure is imparted to the handles A by means of a bolt J having a
thumb screw and passing through recesses within the handles A provided for the
purpose.
These notches or recesses are applicable to many purposes. Thus by imparting
pressure by means of the thumb-screw the notches I may be used as a nut wrench
or strainer of varying sizes. They are further usable as a vice or clamp, pressure
being imparted by means of the thumb-screw J and the handles A are provided
with additional pointed lugs A' at their outer ends having their inside faces
serrated. The notches shaped, as at I¹ are applicable for closing up and splicing
joints of wire.
The handles A are further provided with a leather stamping and rivetting
appliance. For this purpose one handle A has upon its inside face a projecting
pin K engaging a hole or recess K' in the other handle by which the leather or
other object may be stamped and the rivet clenched in place.
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
I claim is:—
Firstly combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected pro-
vided with jaws having rectangular recesses of differing sizes, substantially as
herein described and for the purposes indicated.
Second In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected and
operated by handles provided with jaws having rectangular recesses of differing

page_text: sizes the combination and arrangement through the overlapping portions of the
tool of slots or notches to serve in operation as a cutter for wire and the like as
berein described.
Third In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected and
provided with jaws having rectangular recesses of differing sizes, holes drilled in
the body of the tool for use in twisting or straining wire substantially as herein
described.
Fourth In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected
provided with jaws having rectangular recesses, holes drilled in the back thereof
for the reception of the slack ends of wires, one jaw being flattened upon the
outside face for use as a hammer substantially as described.
Fifth In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected
provided with jaws having rectangular recesses of differing sizes, the combination
and arrangement with a wire cutter and wire twister of a wire gauge substantially
as herein described.
Sixth-In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected
and operated by handles having upon their inside faces recesses of varying sizes
and shapes, a bolt and thumbscrew for imparting pressure to the same substantially
as herein described.
Seventh In a combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally connected the
combination with one part having rectangular and other recesses upon its inside
face and a wire gauge, of the other part having corresponding recesses and a
graduated scale substantially as herein described.
Eighth In a combination tool constructed in two parts operated by handles
having upon their inside faces recesses of varying sizes and shapes and provided
with iaws having rectangular recesses, a leather or other stamp and rivetter, sub-
stantially as herein described.
Ninth An improved combination tool constructed in two parts pivotally con-
nected and operated by handles having upon their inside faces recesses of different
sizes and shapes actuated by a bolt and thumb-screw, and provided with jaws
having rectangular recesses of differing sizes, a wire cutter, a wire twister and
strainer, a wire gauge a graduated scale, and a leather or other punch and rivetter,
substantially as herein described.
Dated the 15th day of April 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London.
Agents for the Applicant.