Improvements in Picks and similar Tools.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picks and similar Tools.
I, ROBERT BURLEY of 8 Walmer Crescent, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Wood Merchant, and Tool Handle Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object to impart strength to the connection between
the handle and the head of a pick, or similar tool, in an improved and economical
manner.
In carrying out my invention I increase the bearing surface of the tool head upon
the handle by welding or brazing or otherwise permanently fixing within the eye of
the tool head steel or iron sheath pieces which extend a sufficient distance from the
inner side of the tool head to bear to the desired extent upon the handle. The
socket for the bandle end, which is thus formed, may be slightly wider at its inner
and outer ends than at an intermediate part, to suit a wedge-fixed handle, or it may
taper from a wider outer end to a narrower inner end to suit a handle having a taper
inwards from its extreme end and entered from the outer end of the socket.
Dated this Thirteenth day of January 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picks and similar Tools.
1, ROBERT BURLEY, of 8, Walmer Crescent, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Wood Merchant, and Tool Handle Maker, 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 to impart strength to the connection between
the handle and the head of a pick or similar tool in an improved and economical
manner.
In carrying out my invention 1 increase the bearing surface of the tool head upon
the handle by welding or brazing and thereby permanently fixing within the eye of
the tool head steel or iron sheath pieces which extend a sufficient distance from the
inner side of the tool head to bear to the desired extent upon 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 examples of pick heads, as made with my
improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a sectional side elevation, and Figure, 2, is an
inverted plan of one example of the improved pick head, Figures, 3, and, 4, being
similar views of a second example.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my invention I increase the bearing surface of the tool head, A,
upon the handle, B, by welding or brazing to and within the eye of the tool head,
steel or iron sheath pieces, C, which extend a sufficient distance from the inner side
of the tool head to bear to the desired extent upon the handle. The socket for the
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page_text: handle end, which is thus formed, may, as shown in Figures, 1, and, 2, be slightly
wider at its inner and outer ends than at an intermediate part, to suit a wedge-fixed
handle or as shown in Figures, 3, and, 4, it may taper from a wider outer end to a
narrower inner end to suit a handle having a taper inwards from its extreme end
and entered from the outer end of the socket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Welding or brazing and thereby permanently fixing to the head of a pick or
similar tool within the eye, metal sheath pieces which extend from the inner
side of the head and bear upon the handle, substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty-eighth of September 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.