A NEW AND IMPROVED COMBINATION TOOL FOR USE IN MENDING MACHINERY BELTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Loughborough
Park, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "A
NEW AND IMPROVED COMBINATION TOOL FOR USE IN MENDING MACHINERY
BELTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad by
David Heaton, of the City and County of Providence, and State of
Rhode Island, United States of America.
Sealed the 16th July 1872, and dated the 25th May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th May 1872.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton,
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED COMBINATION TOOL FOR USE IN MENDING
MACHINERY BELTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a new and improved combination
tool for use in mending machinery belts and for other purposes.
In the accompanying Drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of said
combination tool complete; Figure 2 is a like view and section of the

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part A," of Figure 1 separately; Figure 3 is a like view of the "part
B," of Figure 1 separately; Figure 4 is a top view of the "part B,"
separately; Figure 5 is a like view of the "part A," separately; Figure 6
is a top view of a section of the hammer H and claw E through the
line X, X, of Figure 1. Similar letters indicate like parts in all the
Figures.
The Invention consists of a combination and arrangement of several
well-known tools in one, in convenient form for the separate use of
either one of the combinations with the object mainly to produce a
belt mending implement for use in manufactories, &c., but which also
has other tools in combination adapted to other and quite different
uses and purposes. The said combination tool has the general form
and appearance of a pair of pinchers or pliers, that is to say, having
a pair of gripping jaws D, D, and a pair of handles or shanks A, B.
Instead however of being pivoted together where the two parts cross
each other in the usual way they are confined by a novel device
at this point which provides for opening and shutting the jaws freely
and forcibly by the handles (or shanks) in the usual way and at the
same time provides for the ready disconnection and separate use of one
part (A) from the other (B) as shewn in Figures 2 and 3, whereby the
handles may be wrought into the form of tools calculated for separate
use and more conveniently than the same could be if the two parts were
permanently pivoted together. The two parts A and B are joined together
by putting the shank B through the slot G in the part A, but with
this construction simply no gripping action of the jaws D is possible
unless the two parts are so confined and held in position while the jaws
are opened and shut by the handles. The peculiar confinement to admit
of this action is produced by means of the tooth e in the slot G, which
enters the notch f in the shank B and is held in said notch by the pro-
jection or guide k on the opposite side of said shank which (projection
or guide) bears against the end d of the slot G, when the jaws D are
moving in the act of opening and shutting the same, the projection k
and the tooth in the notch combining to afford the same action of the
two parts as if they were pivoted together in the old way, but affording
greater strength of the parts and a more powerful grip or action than
when the entire strain or force is exerted on a single pivot passing
through the two parts. When it is desired to separate the two parts it
is only necessary to swing the slot of the part A clear of the projection

page_text: k on the shank B when the tooth e may be withdrawn from the notch
in the shank, and said shank then from the slot G, this mode of con-
fining the two parts for the twofold purpose of performing the usual
gripping function of two jaws by their handles, and for the ready
disconnection for separate use of either one of the parts is obviously
applicable in the construction of scissors, heavy shears, tongs, pliers,
nippers, and similar articles, and is distinguishable from the mere
combination of a tooth in the slot of one part engaging with a notch
or a series of notches in the shank of the other part to give and hold
the former permanently in position with the latter as heretofore employed
in the construction of adjustable wrenches by the introduction of the
additional element, viz., the projection or guide k by means of which
the position of the two parts is maintained when in motion like a pair
of gripping jaws or shear blades, an effect which the first named
combination alone is not capable of producing.
Having thus provided for both the combined and separate use of the
two parts A and B, I construct the handle of the part B with a plain
handle M and knife blade I, and at the end of the latter provide a
screwdriver L. A rule R may also be cut on said blade and handle
and a number of notches a, a, a, in the blade for setting the teeth of
saws as shewn in Figures 1 and 3, and a file F may be cut on the back
of the blade as shewn in Figure 4. At the other end of part B forming
a projection from the jaw D' is a hammer H and a nail claw E, the
handle of the "part A" is made tapering with an oval pointed head
J at the end of suitable form for a belt awl merging into an octagon
or other shaped shank forming a tapering reamer N. A pair of serrated
jaws g, g, are formed at the rear of the junction of the two parts A, B,
for grasping and turning pipes and rods.
In order to protect the edge of the cutting blade I and to guard
against accidental cutting, I provide a guard or sheath o of sheet metal
which slips over the screw driver end and straps into the crescent shaped
depressions C on the blade as shewn in Figure 1. For the same purpose
I protect the belt awl with a suitable sheath P of sheet metal shewn
also in Figure 1.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the County
of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield,
Her special license that I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED COMBINATION TOOL FOR
USE IN MENDING MACHINERY BELTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a commu-
nication to me from abroad by David Heaton, of the City and County
of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object a new and improved combination
tool for use in mending machinery belts and for other purposes.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a side view of said
combination tool complete; Figure 2 is a like view and section of the

page_text: part A" of Figure 1 separately; Figure 3 18 a like view of the
"part B" of Figure 1 separately; Figure 4 is a top view of the "part B"
separately; Figure 5 is a like view of the "part A" separately; Figure 6
is a top view of a section of the hammer H and claw E through the
line X, X, of Figure 1. Similar letters indicate like parts in all the
Figures.
My Invention consists of a combination and arrangement of several
well-known tools in one in convenient form for the separate use of
either one of the combinations, with the object mainly to produce a
belt mending implement for use in manufactories, but which also has
other tools in combination adapted to other and quite different uses and
purposes. The said combination tool has the general form and appear-
ance of a pair of pinchers or plyers, that is to say, having a pair of
griping jaws D, D, and a pair of handles or shanks A, B. Instead
however of being pivoted together where the two parts cross each other
in the usual way they are confined by a novel device at this point,
which provides for opening and shutting the jaws freely and forcibly by
the handles (or shanks) in the usual way, and at the same time provides
for the ready disconnection and separate use of one part (A) from the
other (B), as shewn in Figures 2 and 3, whereby the handles may be
wrought into the form of tools calculated for separate use, and more
conveniently than the same could be if the two parts were permanently
pivoted together. The two parts A and B are joined together by putting
the shank B through the slot G in the part A, but with this construction
simply no griping action of the jaws (D) is possible unless the two
parts are so confined and held in position while the jaws are opened
and shut by the handles. The peculiar confinement to admit of this
action is produced by means of the tooth e in the slot G, which enters
the notch fin the shank B, and is held in said notch by the projection
or guide on the opposite side of said shank, which (projection or guide)
bears against the end d of the slot G when the jaws D are moving in
the act of opening and shutting the same, the projection k and the
tooth in the notch combining to afford the same action of the two
parts as if they were pivoted together in the old way, but affording
greater strength of the parts and a more powerful grip or action than
when the entire strain or force is exerted on a single pivot passing
through the two parts. When it is desired to separate the two parts it
is only necessary to swing the slot of the part A clear of the projection k

page_text: on the shank B when the tooth e may be withdrawn from the notch
in the shank and said shank then from the slot G. This mode of con-
fining the two parts for the twofold purpose of performing the usual
griping function of two jaws by their handles, and for the ready discon-
nection for separate use of either one of the parts, is obviously applicable
in the construction of scissors, heavy shears, tongs, plyers, nippers, and
similar articles, and is distinguishable from the mere combination of a
tooth in the slot of one part engaging with a notch or a series of notches
in the shank of the other part to give and hold the former permanently
in position with the latter, as heretofore employed in the construction
of adjustable wrenches, by the introduction of the additional element,
viz. the projection or guide k by means of which the position of the two
parts is maintained when in motion like a pair of griping jaws or shear
blades, an effect which the first-named combination alone is not capable
of producing.
Having thus provided for both the combined and separate use of the
two parts A and B, I construct the handle of the part B with a plain
handle M and knife blade I, and at the end of the latter provide a screw-
driver L. A rule R may also be cut on said blade and handle, and a
number of notches a, a, a, in the blade for setting the teeth of saws, as
shewn in Figures 1 and 3, and a file F may be cut on the back of the
blade, as shewn in Figure 4. At the other end of the part B, forming a
projection from the jaw D¹, is a hammer H and a nail claw E. The
handle of the "part A" is made tapering with an oval-pointed head J
at the end of suitable form for a belt awl, merging into an octagon or
other shaped shank forming a tapering reamer N. A pair of serrated
jaws g, g, are formed at the rear of the junction of the two parts A, B,
for grasping and turning pipes and rods. In order to protect the edge
of the cutting blade I and to guard against accidental cutting I provide
a guard or sheath O of sheet metal, which slips over the screwdriver end
and straps into the crescent shaped depressions C on the blade, as shewn
in Figure 1. For the same purpose I protect the belt awl with a suitable
sheath P of sheet metal, shewn also in Figure 1.
Having described said Invention I claim,-
1st The combination and arrangement of the guide k notch f and

page_text: 2nd. I claim the combination and arrangement with the jaws D or
their equivalent, as described, of the hammer H, the claw E, tho
handle M, and knife blade I, the screwdriver L, the belt awl J, the
reamer N, and with the file F, substantially as shewn and described.
3rd. I claim in a belt mending tool, having a knife blade on one
handle and an awl on the other, the sheath O for the blade and the
sheath P for the awl, substantially as shewn and described.
4th. I claim the combination in a single implement of the several
tools described and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.