Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 13th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
I ALBERT HARLEY STOREY of 38 Lindore Road Wandsworth in the county of
Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
A great evil is experienced in such tools as are described in the specification of my
Patent No. 128 dated 10th January 1882 in which a combined pick and shovel is
pivotted on the end of an handle shaft in that the ring by which the combined pick
and shovel is secured and fixed in the several desired positions is either tight and
therefore difficult and hard to move and liable to jam or else loose and therefore liable
to slip away from its required positions thereby temporarily rendering the tool
useless.
Now the object of this invention is to obviate and remedy this evil by dispensing
with the ring and so to fit and pivot the combined pick and shovel on the end of the
handle shaft that the same can readily quickly and easily be firmly secured and fixed
in the several desired positions without any ring.
To carry out this object I fit and attach on the end of any suitable handle shaft a
metal or other cap or it may be two plates or cheeks one being on each side of the
shaft on the front edge of which and at the top thereof is formed a projection while a
shoulder is formed on the rear edge corresponding therewith. The front edge of the
cap or the plates or cheeks projects also at the bottom somewhat beyond the handle
shaft while another shoulder is formed on the top edge corresponding therewith.
The combined pick and shovel are formed on and with or secured to one and the
same shaft wherein made the usual eye socket or head which can fit over the
cap or the end of the handle shaft and on the rear side of this eye socket or head
between the same and the blade of the shovel is pivotted an eccentric disc or elbowed
catch or button provided with a suitable handle or lever.
When the eye socket or head of the combined pick and shovel is duly placed on and
round the cap or the end of the handle shaft it cannot fall away from the same as the
end of the projection aforesaid is made broader than this eye socket or head.
The combined pick and shovel can then be turned up at right angles or thereabouts
to the line of the handle shaft until the pick end of the eye socket or head thereof is

page_text: under and bears against this broad projection and the eccentric disc or elbowed catch
or button is turned and engages under the shoulder formed on the rear edge as
aforesaid and the combined pick and shovel is securely fixed in this position and the
tool can be used as a pick.
The eccentric disc or elbowed catch or button is then turned back again and the
pick can be drawn down against the handle shaft until the shovel end of the eye
socket or head bears against the broad projection and the pick end of the same is
passed under the bottom of the front edge of the cap or the plates or cheeks which
project somewhat as aforesaid and the eccentric disc or elbowed catch or button is
again turned and engages the shoulder formed on the top edge as aforesaid and the
combined pick and shovel is securely fixed in this position in which the shovel is in
continuation or thereabouts of the line of the handle shaft and the tool can be used as
a spade or shovel.
To prevent the eccentric disc or elbowed catch or button being turned without some
little expenditure of force I preferably make a flange across the top edge of the shovel
blade and the disc or catch or button is so formed and with such angular and other
parts as to bear against this flange and cause the same to act as a spring which is put
in tension when the disc catch or button is turned.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1880.

page_text: An Improved Method of Pivotting a Combined Pick and Shovel.
I ALBERT HARLEY STOREY of 38 Lindore Road Wandsworth in the county of
Surrey Gentleman 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 :-
A great evil is experienced in such tools as have a combined pick and shovel
pivotted on the end of an handle shaft in manner as described in the specification of
the Patent granted unto me dated the 10th day of January 1882 and numbered 128
in that the ring by the which the combined pick and shovel is secured and retained
and fixed in the several required positions is and always will be either tight and
therefore difficult and hard to move and liable to jam or else loose and therefore liable
to slip or fall away from its required positions thereby temporarily rendering the tool
useless.
Now the object of this my present invention is to obviate and remedy this evil by
dispensing entirely with the ring and I so fit and pivot the combined pick and shovel
round and on the end of the handle shaft that the same can readily quickly and easily
be firmly secured and retained and fixed in the several required positions without any
ring.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing in which I have shewn a most
convenient form and style of tool.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete tool when ready to be used as a pick
and Figure 2 is a plan thereof. Figure 3 is a front elevation and Figure 4 is a side
elevation of the complete tool when ready to be used as a spade or shovel. Figure 5
is a side elevation and Figure 6 is a plan of the eye of the combined pick and shovel.
Figures 7 are a side elevation and an end elevation of the end of the handle shaft.
Figures 5 6 and 7 are on an enlarged scale.
On the end of any suitable handle shaft A I fit preferably a metal or other cap Bat
the top of the front edge of which is formed a projection C and a shoulder D is
formed on the rear edge of this cap B to correspond therewith in manner as is
hereinafter explained. The bottom E of the front edge of the cap B projects
somewhat beyond the handle shaft A and a shoulder F is formed on the top of this
cap
B to correspond therewith in manner as is hereinafter explained.
The combined pick and shovel are formed on and with or are secured to one and the
same shaft wherein between the pick and the shovel is made the usual eye G which
can fit round and over the cap B on the end of the handle shaft A. This eye G is
made of such a size and preferably of such a shape as is shewn in the drawing as to fit
somewhat tightly round and on the cap B in the two required positions that is to say
from the projecting bottom E to the top in front of the shoulder F and from a
small recess under the projection C to the rear edge above the shoulder D. Between
the eye G and the blade of the shovel is pivotted on the shaft an eccentric block or
disc or an elbowed catch or button H provided with a suitable handle or lever
preferably so bent as shewn as to allow the same to be conveniently handled.
When the eye
G of the combined pick and shovel is duly placed round and on the
cap B which cap B is then in any usual or convenient manner fitted on and firmly

page_text: secured to the end of the handle shaft A the combined pick and shovel cannot fall
away from the handle shaft as the end of the projection C is made broader than the
eye G while at the same time the shoulder D prevents it falling down the handle shaft
and thus the two parts of this tool are securely connected together and are retained in
or about their desired relative positions without any pivot pin and cannot be separated
until the cap B is taken off the end of the handle shaft A.
The combined pick and shovel can then be turned up at right angles or thereabouts
to the line of the handle shaft as shewn in Figures 1 and 2 until that end of the eye G
that is nearest to the pick is under and bears against the broad projection C when the
rear edge of the capJB which is slightly bevelled as shewn will cause this end aforesaid
of the eye G to enter the recess under the projection C and that end of the eye G
that is nearest to the shovel bears against the top of the shoulder D when the catch H
is turned and engages under the shoulder D and the combined pick and shovel is very
firmly and rigidly secured in this position and the tool can be used as a pick.
The catch H can then be turned back again into the position shewn by dotted lines
in Figure 6 and the pick can be drawn down against the handle shaft as shown in
Figures 3 and 4 until that end of the eye G that is nearest to the shovel bears against
the broad projection C and that end of the eye G that is nearest to the pick can pass
under the projecting bottom E of the front edge of the cap B when the catch His
turned and engages the shoulder F and the combined pick and shovel is very firmly
and rigidly secured in this position and the tool can be used as a spade or shovel.
To prevent the catch H being turned by accident or misadventure or without some
little expenditure of force I preferably make a flange K across the top edge of the
blade of the shovel and the catch H is so formed and with such angular and other
parts as to bear against this flange K and cause the same to act as a spring which is
bent and thereby put in tension as and when the catch H is being turned and to
strengthen this flange K I can very conveniently secure thereon a strip of metal as is
shewn in the drawing which also would take the wear and tear off the same.
I would state that I consider that the exact shapes and proportions of this tool and
of the several parts thereof as shewn in the drawing are the best and most convenient
but it is sufficiently obvious that when for any cause it is expedient or desirable or
convenient so to do I may alter the same as I may prefer.
The cap also on the end of the handle shaft may be formed by two metal or other
plates or cheeks secured on the end of the handle shaft or the end of the handle shaft
itself may be formed in a similar manner and in every case the projections and
shoulders herein before described may if required be attached to the cap or to the
cheeks or to the end of the handle shaft instead of being formed therewith.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
said invention
claim is :-
1. On the end of an handle shaft the combination of the projections C and E and
the shoulders D and F substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the
accompanying drawing.
2. The combination with the cap or the cheeks or the end of an handle shaft having
the projections C and E and the shoulders D and F of the eye G of the combined pick
and shovel and the catch H substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and declared.
3. The combination of the flange K with the catch H substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
4. The method of pivotting a combined pick and shovel on the end of an handle
shaft substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 13th day of July 1887