IMPROVEMENTS IN Scoops
Year: 1885

page_text: WILLIAM PARNALL of 108 Victoria Street in the City and County of Bristol,
Scale Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
Scoops to be as follows:-
I take pieces of wood or plank varying in thickness from a quarter of an inch
to three inches more or less and by jointing or otherwise prepare the same as near
in shape to a true circle as may be necessary or convenient I then place this piece
of wood in a turning lathe or other suitable machine and by the use of turning
tools reduce the said piece of wood to a true circle I now proceed to round off one
of the sharp edges (the outer one) and having completed this operation I so place
the instrument or turning tool as to cut or turn a recess on the outer face or
periphery the recess will necessarily vary in depth in proportion to the thickness
of the sheet metal that is intended to be fixed to this piece of wood which I term
the back of the scoop. Into this back I fix a turned wood handle A male thread
is cut and fixed to one end of the said handle and a female thread and a recess cut
into the back of the scoop. The handle may now be screwed into its position to
ensure its properly fitting I now take a piece of sheet metal cut to the shape desired
and punch drill or otherwise a sufficient number of holes at convenient distances
apart near its outer edge and having previously bent or turned the piece of sheet
metal to the shape of the scoop required and lacquered the same or not as preferred
I proceed to nail the sheet metal to the wood back and thus form the scoop.
In the circular back scoops-
To render the joint of the metal more secure and rigid I solder rivet or nail a
small extra piece of sheet metal or label over this said joint and in the half circular
backs I affix by soldering riveting or nailing two strips of sheet metal to the metal
part of the scoop one strip at each corner and having bent these strips to the
required shape I nail or screw these pieces of metal to the wood back.
What I claim is the exclusive right to attach a piece of sheet metal of any kind
(bent to the desired shape) to a piece of wood forming a complete circle or a half
circle or any part of a circle or any other convenient shape but all such pieces of
metal shall be fixed in the prescribed manner as herein before described that is
nailed or otherwise to the recess formed in the periphery of the piece of wood
herein called the back of the scoop.

page_text: I WILLIAM PARNALL of 108 Victoria Street in the City and County of Bristol
Scale Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
Scoops and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention relates to Improvements in Scoops, its object being to provide
strong metal body scoops with wood backs.
And in order that this my invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practical effect I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings having the
various figures thereon marked with similar letters to denote similar parts and
reference being hereinafter had thereto.
Fig. 1. represents the back of the scoop Fig. 2. At a fig. 1, I provide a recess
which is cut into the periphery of the back of said scoop. I may make these
backs either semicircular or in complete circles as fig. 3 or with flat bottoms as
fig. 4. The bodies of these scoops are made of sheet metal and provided with holes
through which nails, screws, and the like pass into the wood back and thus secure
the bodies to said backs. For the purpose of more securely binding the back to
the body of scoop fig. 2. pieces of metal are soldered, rivetted or otherwise secured
to the body at b. These extra pieces of metal are afterwards bent to suit the
shape of the top of back of scoop, and secured to said back by nails screws and
the like.
Fig. 3' represents a circular back scoop. The sheet metal circle at a may be of
any other shape and is soldered across the joint to give extra strength to this part
of the said scoop:
Fig. 4 represents a scoop with a flat bottom and handle fixed inside of the back,
and not outside as fig. 2 and fig. 3.
To more firmly hold said handle a screw or nail is passed through the top of
Baid scoop at a and thence into the said handle.
I wish it to be understood that I do not claim as my invention scoops with
metal bodies, and wood handles or backs.
Having now particularly described and. ascertained, the nature of my Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination and arrangement of metal bodies and wood backs in Scoops,
said backs being provided with a recess substantially as herein before. described and
set forth and as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 8th day of September 1886.