An Improved Hand Tool for Breaking Coals or other Material.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1894
Complete Specification Left 29th Jan. 1895-Accented 9th Mar. 1895
Date of Application, 2nd June, 1894
Complete Specification left 29th Jan.
1895-Accented 9th Mar. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hand Tool for Breaking Coals or other Material.
I, PIERRE ALRIQ, of 128 Rue du Faubourg Poissonière, Paris, in the Republic-
of France, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as-
follows:-
My invention relates to a convenient hand tool for breaking coal, coke, or similar
materials.
It consists of a short bar, preferably made of steel, and tapering to an elongated.
point at each end.
The centre portion of the bar is made of such a section and size as may be.
conveniently grasped by the hand the sharp points tapering therefrom at each end.
The central part may be cylindrical and the tapering ends hexagonal, or the
section of the bar may be of various shape as desired.
A convenient dimension for this hand tool is about 20 inches in length and of
about 2 inches in diameter, but it may be made in any required dimensions to adapt
it to particular uses.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
1, PIERRE ALRIQ, of 128 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to a convenient hand tool for breaking coal, coke, or similar
material.
It consists of a short bar, preferably made of steel, and tapering to an elongated
point at one, or both ends.
One portion of the bar is made of such a section and size, as may be conveniently
grasped by the hand, and will give by its mass a sufficient momentum to a blow, a.
sharp point tapering therefrom at one or both ends.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to.
describe the same, in relation to the drawings hereto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a view of my breaker, as grasped in the hand, for striking or breaking.
coal or other material.
Figure 2 is an equivalent, but modified external form, of the same tool.
Figure 3 is an equivalent, but modified form of my tool, with only one sharpened
end.
and it may
A is the portion of the tool to be grasped by the hand B of the user,
be cylindrical in shape, as in Figures 1 and 3, hexagonal or octagonal as in Figure 2,.
or of any other section that may prove convenient.

page_text: C. C. are the taper ends of the tool, brought to a sharp point at the extremity, so
that, in the double ended tool, either end may be used equivalently.
This conical portion of the tool may be hexagonal as in Figures 1 and 3,
octagonal, or circular as in Figure 2, or of any section that may prove convenient.
It will be found that the weight or mass of the metal tool by giving momentum to
the blow, is very effective in breaking up coal or other material, when grasped in
the hand, and the tool, being without a handle fitted therein, as in the case of a
hammer, has no part to jar locse, or become detached, in use, and the form of
breaking tool, as shown, is extremely useful, and cheap to manufacture.
A convenient dimension for this hand tool is about 20 inches in length and about
2 inches in diameter through the part grasped by the hand, but it may be made in
any required dimensions to adapt it to particular uses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A hand-tool for breaking coal, or other material, consisting of a part adapted
to suit the grasp of the hand, with a tapering point at one or both ends, all made
out of one piece of metal, such as steel, and of any suitable cross-section, substan-
tially as described.
2nd. A hand tool for breaking coal or other material, substantially as described
and illustrated in the drawings herewith.
Dated this 20th day of January 1905
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.