AN IMPROVED PICK OR PICKAXE FOR EXCAVATING, MINING, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Reidy, of No. 29, Doddington Grove,
Kennington Park, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED PICK OR PICKAXE FOR EXCAVATING, MINING, AND OTHER
PURPOSES."
.PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Reidy at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th May 1868.
I, JAMES REIDY, of No. 29, Doddington Grove, Kennington Park,
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED PICK OR PICKAXE FOR EXCAVATING, MINING, AND
OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
By the introduction of a socket introduced at the end of each pick
so that the points being made of cast steel to the full length required
can be put in and taken out at pleasure, consequently it is a great
saving of time and expense, for it does away with steeling, as a number

page_text: of the cast-steel points can be taken with the pick; therefore the points
being made of cast steel will resist the hardest substance, and the body
will always remain fit for use. The handle when once put in will never
want to be removed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Reidy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
REIDY, of No. 29, Doddington Grove, Kennington Park, in the County
of Surrey, Mechanical Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eightth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Reidy, Her special licence
that I, the said James Reidy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Reidy, 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 "AN IMPROVED PICK
OR PICKAXE FOR EXCAVATING, MINING, AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said James Reidy, 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 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 James Reidy, 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 :—

page_text: By the introduction of oval cast steel, pointed at both ends, so as to
make it reversible, and passing through socket, handle, and pick head,
and curved to the shape of the ordinary pick, as shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2 shows oval cast steel, pointed at both ends, so as to be capable of
reversing when one end is blunt. The steel points can be taken in &
out as may be desirable to be replaced by others while the former are
being sharpened. In the pick head is an oval socket hole curved &
tapered (as shown in Drawing Fig. 2) to match the steel points, the
socket hole continuing through handle and pick head, so when the
pick is at work there is no vibration in the blow. The oval steel passing
through making the body perfectly solid and the socket hole being
tapered tightens itself. I also make the pick head available for receiving
and being used as railway beater end, hammer head, adze, axe, and
fish spanner numbered respectivly on Drawing as Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Reidy, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eightth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.