Improvements in Picks, Hammers, and similar Tools.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1892--Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picks, Hammers, and similar Tools.
I, ROBERT BURLEY, of 96 Great Wellington Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Wood Merchant, and Tool Handle Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to impart increased strength to the connec-
tion between the handle and the head of a pick, hammer, or similar tool, by an
improved and economical construction.
In carrying out my invention I form projections on the inner side of the tool
head at the narrow ends of the eye into which the handle is fixed. These projec-
tions are on their inner faces shaped as continuations of the eye, or in other words
are extensions of the bearing surfaces which communicate to the tool head the
force transmitted by the handle. The projections are formed in the process of
forging the tool head by means of suitable cresses or dies.
Dated this Twenty-first day of March 1892.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picks, Hammers, and similar Tools.
I, ROBERT BURLEY, of 96 Great Wellington Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Wood Merchant, and Tool Handle Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-.
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to impart increased strength to the con-
nection between the handle and the head of a pick, hammer, or similar tool by an
improved and economical construction.
In carrying out my invention I form projections on the inner side of the tool
head at the narrow ends of the eye into which the handle is fixed. These pro-
jections are on their inner faces shaped as continuations of the eye, or in other
words are extensions of the bearing surfaces which communicate to the tool head
the force transmitted by the handle. The projections are formed in the process of
forging the tool head by means of suitable cresses or dies.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and showing by way of example two applications of my
improvements.
Figure, 1, on the drawings is a side elevation and Figure, 2, an inverted plan,
showing my improvements as applied to a pick.
Figures, 3, and 4, are similar views showing my improvements as applied to a
hammer.
As shown in the drawings I form projections, A, on the inner side of the
pick, B, or hammer, C, at the narrow ends of the eye into which the handle, D,
is fixed. These projections, A, are on their inner faces shaped as continuations
of the eye, so that they form extensions of the bearing surfaces which communicate
to the tool head the force transmitted by the handle, D.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In picks, hammers, and similar tools, forming projections. on the inner side of
the tool head, these projections being shaped so that their inner faces are con-
tinuations of the eye into which the handle is fixed, substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fifteenth day of December 1892.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.