IMPROVE- MENTS IN SPADES SHOVELS AND EDGE TOOLS
Year: 1884

page_text: I THOMAS PARKES of 3 Wellington Street Bilston in the County of Stafford
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPADES SHOVELS AND EDGE TOOLS to be as follows:-
Fig. 1 represents the blade of a spade with slot cut in.
Fig. 2 is a front view of a maleable cast or wrought iron connection for a spade
or shovel.
Fig. 3. is a section of the blade Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is the side view of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a section full size of a maleable cast or wrought iron connection for a
spade or shovel taken on the line A. A. of Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a section of the same taken on the line B, B of Fig, 2.
Fig. 7. is a section of the same taken on the line C, C. of Fig. 2.
Fig. 8 represents the blade of a spade with maleable cast iron connection rivetted
to the blade, and which may be a socket one.
The maleable connection is for the purpose of connecting a plate of steel or
iron with the handle of a spade or shovel or edge tool.
By this plan which is my Invention the greatest amount of durability and
strength is obtained in the place where they are the weakest when made in the
usual way.
By my Invention these articles can be made more quickly and with less
expense than by that mode of manufacture now in use.
I get a hammered or rolled plate of steel or iron with a peice cut out as shown
in Fig. 1 of that thickness which will admit of the plate being driven up the
slide or groove in the connection the two are then rivetted together as seen
in Fig. 8.
When the blade of a spade or shovel is worn out a new blade may be connected
with the old handle by taking out the rivets A. A. in Fig. 8 the old blade will
then be free to be knocked out and a new one as seen at Fig. 1 may be replaced.
Dated this First day of January 1884.

page_text: I THOMAS PARKES of 3 Wellington Street Bilston in the County of Stafford
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPADES, SHOVELS, AND EDGE TOOLS and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
Referring to the Drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification Fig. 1
represents the blade of a spade with a slot cut in.
Fig. 2. is a front view of a malleable cast or wrought iron connection for a
spade or shovel.
Fig. 3 is a section of the blade Fig. 1.
Fig. 4. is the side view of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a section full size of malleable connection taken on the line A, A,
of Fig. 4.
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Fig. 6. is a section of the same taken on the lino B, B of Fig. 2.
Fig. 7. is a section of the same taken on the line C, C, of Fig. 2.
Fig. 8. represents the blade of a spade with malleable cast iron connection
rivetted to the blade.
The malleable connection is for the purpose of connecting a plate of steel or
iron with the handle of a spade or shovel or edge tool.
By this plan, which is my Invention, the greatest amount of durability, and
strength of these articles is obtained in the place, where they are the weakest,
when made in the usual way.
By ny Invention these articles can be made more quickly, and with less
expense, than by that mode of manufacture now in use.
get a hammered, or rolled plate of steel, or iron, with a peice cut out, as shown
in Fig. 1, of a thickness, which will admit of the plate being driven up the slide,
or groove, of the malleable connection; the two are then rivetted together, as seen
in Fig. 8 which may be, also, a socket, or a socket-strapped one.
When the blade, or plate of a shovel, or spade, is worn out, a new one may be
connected with the old handle, by taking out the rivets A, A, on Fig. 8 the old
blade will then be free to be knocked out, and a new one, as seen by Fig. 1 may
be replaced.
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 the method of attaching the blades, or plates of spades, shovels, and
edge tools, to the malleable castings; and the adaptation of the castings, for their
handles; substantially, as herein described, and illustrated by the accompanying
Drawings.
Dated this Twentieth day of June 1884.