IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOVELS AND SPADES
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 12th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Apr., 1887.
I, AUGUSTUS EDWARD STAYNER, of Millhouses, near Sheffield, Mining Tools
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
SHOVELS AND SPADES to be as follows:-
Hitherto Shovels and Spades have been made either with cofers and two straps
partially clasping the handles of such shovels or spades on two sides of the handle, or
inade without cofers and with a socket which nearly or completely encircles the handle.
My invention consists of the formation of a shovel or spade with a hollow cofer and
two straps somewhat as in the case of the first described, one of such straps however
being made preferably narrower and shorter than the other, the wider strap being made
of such a width as to form a socket which will nearly or completely encircle
the handle of the shovel or spade for any required distance on or up such handle,
and at the same time cover or clasp over the shorter strap; or both straps may be
made of such a width as to form a double socket, each encircling or nearly encircling
the handle, one socket overlapping the other.
I, AUGUSTUS EDWARD STAYNER of Millhouses near Sheffield in the county of
Yorkshire, Managing Director 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:
Hitherto shovels and spades have been made either with cofers and two straps
partially clasping the handle on two sides, or made without cofers and with a socket

page_text: which nearly or completely encircles the handle.
This invention consists of the
formation of shovels or spades with hollow cofers and with two straps, one of such
straps being made preferably narrower and shorter than the other. The wider strap
being made of such a width as to form a socket which will nearly or completely
encircle the handle of the shovel or spade, and at the same time cover or clasp over
the shorter strap, or both straps may be made of such a width as to form a double
socket, each encireling or nearly encircling the handle, one socket overlapping the
other.
To render the mode of carrying out this invention clearly understood, I annex one
sheet of drawings in which like letters refer to like parts in each figure.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a blank for a shovel or spade after being drawn out of a
mould formed in the usual way with a hollow part at one end to form the cofer, and
two ends or tangs to form the straps, one strap C. being long and broad enough to
form a socket, and the other strap 1). being 'short, to tuck under the end of the socket
formed by the strap C.
Fig. 2, is a side view of fig. 1.
Fig. 3, shows the blank after it has been pressed in dies to form the shovel into the
proper shape, and the cofer opener has been forced into open the cofer, and also the
strap C, has been closed to form the socket, and the short strap D. is tucked under
the socket C. This is also shown in fig. 4, which is a plan of fig. 3.
Fig. 5, represents a blank similar to that shown in fig. 1. but having both straps E
and the same length.
These straps may be closed one over the other to any extent .desirable so that one
or both form a perfect socket, and is thus distinguished from ordinary double strapped
shovels, which only partially embrace the handle, and do not overlap, or form a
socket.
One strap may be made broad so as to form the socket, and the other a narrow strap
only as shown in Fig. 7. Where F is the socket and E is the strap; or both straps
may be made broad enough each to form a complete socket and one to overlap the
other as in Fig. 8-or the overlapping may be to any intermediate extent between these
arrangements, and the lengths of the stras may differ as much as desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and the manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The formation of shovels and spades with hollow cofers with two straps, one strap
to overlap the other to any required extent so that one, or both, straps may form a
socket to secure the handle, instead of securing it by straps as is the case with shovels
or spades hitherto made with cofers.