IMPROVEMENTS IN CLAW HAMMERS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER HAMMERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLAW HAMMERS, PARTS OF WHICH
ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER HAMMERS."-A communication from abroad
by Charles Parker, of Meriden, in the County of New Haven, and
Scaled the 2nd July 1875, and dated the 6th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas
Hughes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th January 1875.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN CLAW HAMMERS, PARTS OF WHICH
ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER HAMMERS," a communication to me from abroad
by Charles Parker, of Meriden, in the County of New Haven, and State
of Connecticut, United States of America, Manufacturer, to be as
follows

page_text: First. In a cast metal body with a steel head or face, the two parts
socured together in the process of casting.
Second. In the introduction of a steel face to the claw, secured in the
process of casting.
Fig. 1 is a side view; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; Fig. 3, a
sectional side view; Fig. 4, a rear view; and Fig. 5, the claw face
detached.
A is the hammer of substantially the usual form; B, the head or
face; C, C, the claws. This head is first formed from steel, and pre-
ferably with a projection a upon its upper surface. The mould is mado
of the form of the hammer completo, then the head B is placed in the
mould in the position it is to occupy, and the molten metal poured into 1
the mould flows upon the upper surface of the head, firmly attaching it
thereto, and the completed hammer is removed from the mould. This
completes the first part of my Invention.
Prior to casting a piece of steel or wrought metal d-is laid into the
mould on the face of the claw part. This piece is preferably slit and a
formed substantially as seen in Fig. 5, the slit opened corresponding to
the claw. The metal flows around this piece, and firmly secures it to
the face of the claw; the hammer is then finished in the usual manner,
the claws presenting a wrought metal face.
The edge of the picco should be beviled so as to lock under, as shown, 2
or otherwise prepared to engage with the cast metal.
The head or claw face may be tempered to the desired oxtent, the
same as a steel hammer, and for general use the hammer is as good as a
forged hammer, and is produced for about one-fourth the cost.
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This Invention is represented as applied to claw hammers, but it may 8
with equal facility be applied to some other classes of hammers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 128,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLAW HAMMERS, PARTS OF
WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER HAMMERS," a communication to me from
abroad by Charles Parker, of Meriden, in the County of New Haven and
State of Connecticut, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 tho 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 Edward Thomas Hughes, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, that is to say :—
The first part of this Invention relates to the construction or applica-

page_text: First. In a cast metal body with a steel head or face, the two parts
scoured together in the process of casting.
Second. In the introduction of a steel face to the claw, secured in the
process of casting.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a side view; Fig. 2, a
vertical central section; Fig. 3, a sectional side view; Fig. 4, a rear
view; and Fig. 5, the claw face detached.
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A is the hammer of substantially the usual form; B, the head or
face; O, C, the claws. This head is first formed from steel, and pre-
ferably with a projection a upon its upper surface. The mould is made
of the form of the hammer complete, then the head B is placed in the
mould in the position it is to occupy, and the molten metal poured into 1
mould, flows upon the upper surface of the head, firmly attaching it
thereto, and the completed hammer is removed from the mould. This
completes the first part of the Invention.
Prior to casting a picco of steel or wrought metal d is laid into the
mould on the face of the claw part. This piece is preferably slit, and 2
formed substantially as seen in Fig. 5, the slit opened corresponding to
the claw. The metal flows around this piece, and firmly secures it to
the face of the claw; the hammer is then finished in the usual manner,
the claws presenting a wrought metal face.
The edge of the piece should be bevilled so as to lock under, as shown,
or otherwise prepared to engage with the cast metal.
The head or claw face may be tempered to the desired extent, the same
as a steel hammer, and for general use the hammer is as good as a forged
hammer, and is produced for about one-fourth the cost.
This Invention is represented as applied to claw hammers, but it may :
with equal facility be applied to some other classes of hammers.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention
I claim,-
First. A cast metal hammer having the head formed from wrought
metal, and united in the process of casting, substantially as specified.
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page_text: Second. A cast metal hammer with wrought metal face a attached by
the process of casting, substantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.