Improvements in Hammers, Picks, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1899-Accepted, 12th Aug.,
1899
Improvements in Hammers, Picks, and the like.
I, WILLIAM WARBURTON, of 214*, St. George's Road, Bolton, in the County
of Lancaster, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows, that is to say:
It relates to improvements in the construction of hammers, picks and like
implements whereby I am enabled to employ and secure metal handles thereto
in such a manner as to render same more durable and efficient for many purposes
than they have been heretofore.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct the head of the hammer or
the like so that it has two eyes instead of one for the reception of the handle
and through these two eyes I insert or pass a bar of metal (as wrought iron,
steel or the like) which is circular square or other shape in cross section.
The ends of the metal bar are bent down into a recess made in the head of
the hammer or the like on one side while on the other side one part of the
bar is brought into suitable contact with the other part where it is held by
being shouldered or otherwise.
Or I may twist the two over-wrapping parts of the bar together and make
them form a loop or suitable handle part at their folded end.
By following this method of producing hammers picks and the like, breakages
of the handles and detachments of one part from the other are entirely pre-
vented.
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1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hammers, Picks, and the like.
I, WILLIAM WARBURTON, of 214*, St. George's Road, Bolton, in the County
of Lancaster, Ironmonger, 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, that is to say:
It relates to improvements in the construction of hammers, picks and like
implements whereby am enabled to employ and secure metal handles thereto
in such a manner as to render same more durable and efficient for many purposes
than they have been heretofore.

page_text: In the accompanying sheets of drawings which are illustrative of my inven-
tion:-
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a "coal-hammer-head" showing my
improved method of construction and how the handle is secured thereto.
Fig. 2 is part sectional elevation of a mechanic's hammer with the handle
part constructed as hereinafter described.
Fig. 3 is a part sectional end view of the head shown by Fig. 2.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are sectional side, and top views and end elevation of the
eye-part of a hatchet or blocker constructed as hereinafter explained.
Figs. 7 and 8 are sectional side elevations and top view of a similar hammer
to that shown by Fig. 1 but with modifications hereinafter described.
Figs. 9 and 10 are side elevations of a hatchet and pick respectively, showing
how my invention is carried into effect in connection with same.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct the head a of the hammer b
or c or of the hatchet d or pick e so that it has two eyes f g (instead of one as
heretofore) for the reception of the handle h, and through these eyes f g I
insert or pass a bar of metal ¹ (as wrought iron, steel or the like) which may
be circular, square or other shape in cross-section.
The ends of the bar h¹ are bent down preferably into a recess made in
the head a on one side while on the other side one part of the bar h¹ is brought
into contact with the other part to be held by its shoulders m m³.
I may twist the bar as shown by Fig. 1 so that the handle is formed by
it, or I may leave it straight as shown by Figs. 7 and 8 and cover it with wood p
to form a more suitable surface for handling. The modified form of such handle
as shown by Fig. 2 being to meet the requirements of those for whom such
handles and hammers or the like are intended.
The wooden covering may be made in two parts and secured together over
the bar h by glue, rivetts, screws or the like. Or in place of said wooden cover-
ing I may have a papier-mache, pulp, vulcanite or other compounded substance
pressed and formed into handle shape over the bar h as will be readily under-
stood.
For existing articles such as hatchets or the like wherein the eye for the
handle is already formed and made so as to receive the usual style of wooden
handle, I may place a metal blocks in said eye as shown by Figs. 4, 5 and 6,
and secure it therein by bending or clenching its projecting part t over and on
the outside of the head a, this said blocks being further formed so as to leave
the openings fg for the bar h to be mounted therein as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. Hammers and the like constructed substantially as herein specified.
2. In connection with hammers, picks and the like, metal handles constructed
and secured substantially as herein specified.