improvements in the Manufacture of Hatchets and Axes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
improvements in the Manufacture of Hatchets and Axes.
I, JAMES WALL of Holborn Works, Dronfield in the County of Derby,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to reduce the cost of manufacturer of hatchets
and axes, and it refers particularly to the method of forming the eye of such
tools.
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In carrying out my invention I propose to make the hatchet or axe from a
piece of steel preferably rolled to a cross section which is thinner towards its
edges.
With suitable tools I punch or cut out a blank having the form of the blade
at one end, and continued in the shape of two sides of the eye, and a lug or ear.
The lug or ear is preferably heart shaped and suitable to receive three rivets
through it, and a correspondingly shaped recess is stamped into the side of the
blade.
The steel is doubled back exactly between the two sides of the eye, until the lug
or ear will fit into the recess, where it is finally secured by rivets.
In stamping the recess a slight projection is formed on the opposite side of the
blade, which corresponds with the lug on the other side.
Thus a very clean formed eye is cheaply constructed, and the connection of
the lug to the blade is very strongly made and is not likely to catch when being
used.
Dated the 28th day of January 1895.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agen for Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hatchets and Axes.
I, JAMES WALL of Holborn Works, Dronfield in the County of Derby,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to reduce the cost of manufacture of hatchets and
axes, and it refers more particularly to the method of forming the eye of such
tools.
The accompanying sheet of drawings clearly illustrates the method of carrying
out the invention.
Fig. 1, represents the blank of an ordinary hatchet or axe as it is cut out of a
piece of sheet or plate steel, and otherwise prepared.
Fig. 2, the finished tool.
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Fig. 3, represents the blank of a wedge axe or felling axe.
Fio 4 the finished tool.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I make the blank of a hatchet such as that shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, preferably by cutting or punching it out of a piece of Hat or
suitably tapered steel, the section preferred being one which tapers towards both
its edges.
The tools may be ordinary beds and punches as will be well understood, and the
form produced and shown in Fig. 1, has the blade B, at one end, and is continued
in the configuration of both sides of the eye E and E2, and a lug L.
A recess R, is sunk in the back of the blade B, to receive the lug L, when the
side E², is turned back to form the eye, and the lug is finally secured by rivets
through the holes H.
The part between the sides E, and E2, indicated by dotted lines forms the back
of the hatchet.
I prefer that in stamping the recess R, a slight projection or raised portion
corresponding with the shape of the lug L, shall be formed, but this is not
material.
The form of axe shown in Fig. 3, is made in a similar manner to that before
described, namely the blade B, is at one end of the blank and a continuation of
more than double the length of the eye at the other end. The blade is set down
or recessed at R, but no projection or raised portion is formed on the outside.
The continuation is bent back at the position indicated by the dotted lines, and
the extreme end is fitted to the recess and permanently secured by screws, rivets or
the like, and ground off smooth with the side.
Other shapes and patterns of hatchets and axes may be constructed by the same
method of punching out and turning back one half of the eye, which dispenses with
the cost of forging, and greatly increases the speed at which such articles can be
produced.
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:
1. The improvements in the manufacture of hatchets and axes, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated.
2. A hatchet or axe having its eye or socket formed by bending back an
extension of the back part of the blade and securing it to one side of the blade as
herein before described and shown.
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ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.