Improvements in Spades or Shovels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 20th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug.,
1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spades or Shovels.
JOHN DAWSON Bernard Works Park Sheffield Tool Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I take a plate of steel or iron the exact shape and size of any shovel or spade
below the shank or straps. This said plate being moulded to the pattern required,
is then punched or drilled with the number of holes necessary, at the top end of the
said plate. Corresponding holes are then punched or drilled in the upper portion
of the plate of the shovel or spade, to which it is intended to he attached. The
two plates are then securely rivetted together, by means of rivets with washers,
through the aforesaid holes. When the lower portion of the said attached plate
becomes sufficiently worn to be rendered useless, the heads of the rivets can be
ground or filed off down to the washers (which will preserve that portion of the
plate from injury) and a new plate easily attached to the shovel or spade, thus
preventing great waste by throwing aside as worthless, the most costly portion of
the spade or shovel, which can be made again, and again, as good as new, at a very
trifling cost, by the adoption of the attachable plate.
The amount of steel required being little more than half that required to form
the shank and blade from one piece as now done, may be of better quality, and
hardened easily if found to be an advantage.
Dated this 19th day of October 1894.
JOHN DAWSON.
JOHN DAWSON Bernard Works Sheffield Tool Manufacturer 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:-
I take a plate of steel or iron, the requisite size and shape of spade or shovel,
below the straps or socket (see Figure 1). This said plate being dished by
stamping or pressing to the pattern required, is then punched or drilled with the
necessary number of holes at the upper portion of the said plate as shown in
Figure 1. The handle and shank of the spade or shovel to which the plate is to be
attached is then formed as in Figure 2. corresponding holes being punched or bored
to fit the holes in the aforesaid plate. The two parts Figures 1 & 2. are then
securely rivetted together by means of rivets, with washers on the back portion of
the plate, thus forming a spade or shovel complete as Figure 3. These said
washers will protect the back portion of the spade or shovel so that when the plate
becomes sufficiently worn to require renewing, the said rivets may be filed, or
ground down to the washers and removed without causing injury to the holes, or
portion of the spade or shovel required to be again attached to another plate, thus
preventing great waste by throwing aside as worthless, the most costly portion of

page_text: the spade or shovel, which, by these means may be used again and again, so long
as the handles and sockets remain in a workable condition.
The bottom portion of Figure 2 A. may be made of any shape found desirable,
and with either more or less holes. Either old, or new, handles may be used in this
attachment.
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. In an attachable spade or shovel plate. The attachment as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, by which means, the socket and handles
of spades and shovels, now thrown aside as useless may be utilised.
2. In an attachable spade. or shovel plate. The protecting washers on the revits,
by which means the plate is strengthened, and the lower portion of the socket which
is attached to the plate protected from injury when the rivets are removed.
3. In an attachable spade or shovel plate.
socket (A Figure 2) round and in which, the
revits.
The corrugated portion below the
holes are bored or punched for the
The socket and lower portion A to
4. In an attachable spade or shovel plate.
which the plate is attached as in Figure 2 illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of July 1895.