Improvements in Miners' Picks, Hammers, Hatchets, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Miners' Picks, Hammers, Hatchets, and
the like.
I, FRANK JACOB HUTE, of 36, New Street, Pendlebury, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Miner, 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 :-
These improvements relate to an invention for which 1 have obtained Letters
Patent dated Dec. 10th 1892, No. 19520, and consisting of a socket with curved or
turned down upper portions which socket is applied to the front end of a handle of
a miner's pick, haminer hatchet or the like formed with a V or taper slot to receive
the pick, hammer, hatchet or the like having a corresponding recessed part and
the pick, etc., being secured to the said socket by means of a grooved wedge
engaging therein.
The object of my present invention is to simplify the said socket and its attach-
ment to the pick, hammer, hatchet, or the like handle as well as to render the same
neater, stronger, and more secure than heretofore has been the case.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 a plan, Figs. 3 & 4 respectively a longitudinal and
cross section of a miner's pick constructed in accordance with my improvement.
Fig. 5 is a plan of the pick itself detached and Fig. 6 a cross section of the
socket at line A-B Fig. 1.
In carrying out my invention in lieu of forming the outer end of the handle a
with a V or taper recess as heretofore I form the same straight (see more particularly
Fig. 4) and the socket & with inwardly projecting sides 61, 61, to rest thereon. The
upper part of the socket b which surrounds the outer end of the stick or handle a
is made slightly larger than the socket bitself, so as to allow of driving between
the same suitable wedges c and thus readily and securely fasten the socket 6 to the
stick or handle a. In this case the outer end of the socket 6 is formed with a V or
taper slot d in lieu of the stick or handle a and the pick, hammer, hatchet, or the
like e itself with corresponding recesses e¹ and secured upon the socket 6 by means
of a grooved key f engaging in grooves g formed in the outer end of the socket
sides b².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
"In a miner's picks, hammers, hatchets, or the like."
1st. The socket b formed with inwardly projecting sides 61, 61, in combination
with the outer end of the stick or handle b formed straight, the said socket sides
being adapted to rest upon the straight end of the stick or handle a substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
2nd. The socket 6 fixed upon the end of the stick or handle a by means of
wedges substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 5th day of March 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.