Improvements in Fixing Handles to Picks, Mattocks, and other Tools.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing Handles to Picks, Mattocks, and other
Tools.
T, OBADIAHI MORGAN, of the Market Place, Penkridge, in the County of Stafford,
Miner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to picks, mattocks, and other
tools, which require to be fixed upon a handle or haft, my object being to pro-
vide simple and reliable means for effectually securing the two parts together
and thus to prevent unheading or accidental detachment of the tool.
In the application of my invention to a pick, pick-axe, or like tool, I form
a wedge shaped bridge piece either longitudinally or transversely across the oval
or other shaped eye or aperture through the head of the tool. Such wedge shaped
bridge piece, formed integrally with the pick or tool itself, more effectually serves
the purpose of expanding the handle or haft end tightly within the tool eye than
the loose or independent key piece usually employed for that purpose.
On the underside of the head I sometimes form projecting lips, disposing them
at right angles to the wedge shaped bridge piece to serve as additional abutments
against which the handle end is expanded.
I somtimes dispose a wedge shaped bridge piece, such as hereinbefore described
both in a longitudinal and transverse direction across the eye, thus forming a
cross shaped wedge.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &,
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &,
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Fixing Handles to Picks, Mattocks, and other
Tools.
I, OBADIAH MORGAN, of the Market Place, Penkridge, in the County of Stafford,
Miner, 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:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to picks, mattocks, and other
tools, which require to be fixed upon a handle or haft, my object being to pro-

page_text: vide simple and reliable means, for effectually securing the two parts together
and thus to prevent unheading or accidental detachment of the tool.
On the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to...
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan of a miner's pick constructed
in accordance with my invention.
The same reference letters are employed in both views to indicate the same
parts.
In the application of my invention to a pick, pick-axe, or like tool, I form
a wedge shaped bridge piece as A either longitudinally or transversely across the
oval or other shaped eye or aperture B through the head C of the tool. Such
wedge shaped bridge picce A formed integrally with the pick or tocl itself,
strengthens the head and more effectually serves the purpose of expanding the
handle or haft end D tightly within the tool eye than the loose or independent
key piece usually employed for that purpose.
. On the underside of the head I sometimes form projecting lips as E. disposing
them at right angles to the wedge shaped bridge piece to serve as additional
abutments against which the handle end D is expanded.
I somtimes dispose a wedge shaped bridge piece, such as herein before described
both in a longitudinal and traverse direction across the eye, thus forming a
cross shaped wedge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a pick, mattock, or other tool, the combination with the head of the
tool and forming an integral part of the same, of a wedge shaped bridge piece,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A miner's pick or like tool having its head strengthened and arranged for
the effectual securing thereto of the handle or haft, substantially as described
and as illustrated.
Lay 1900.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1900.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.