Improvements in Combination Tools.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Tools.
A communication from abroad by CHARLES FAIRBANKS MOTT, of the City of Halifax,
in the Province of Nova Scotia, in the Dominion of Canada, Merchant, and
JOHN ORPHEUS HIBBART, of the City of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, one
of the United States of America, Salesman.
I, PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE, of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to combine in an implement, presumably a hammer
or hatchet, a claw for extracting nails and tacks, a corkscrew, and a cutter for opening
tin cans &c. and the device may be used for many other useful purposes.
The invention consists in combining with a hammer or hatchet having a skeleton
handle, cast integrally therewith, an adjustable cutter sliding in the upper part of the
handle, a corkscrew in the lower part of the handle, the handle terminating in a claw,
and the head of the hammer or hatchet provided with a spike for centering the
cutter, as hereinafter set forth.
Figure 1, is a front elevation of the improved implement.
Figure 2, is a side view of the same, and
Figure 3, is a view of the cutter, detached.
A, is the hammer head, or hatchet if desired, and B, is a skeleton handle cast
integrally with the head, and said handle is cast with a solid partition C, near the
middle. The upper division of the handle is occupied by a cutter D, having a suitable
head retained between the skeleton bars of the handle, but sliding reciprocally therein,
and said cutter is held stationery by a pinching screw or thumbscrew E, at an adjusted
position.
One end of the hammer head is provided with a spike F, and in opening a tin
can, the spike is inserted through the end of the can at the centre, and the cutter
worked around the can at the line where cutting is to be effected. The lower end
of the handle is grasped by the hand in effecting the cut.
The cutter when adjusted to the line of cut is fixed by the thumbscrew clamping
the cutter between the open bars of the handle, and when cutting is to be effected,
the blade D, is projected outwardly from the handle, and when cutting has been
performed, the cutter is folded to shut the point of the blade between the bars of
the handle.
G, is a corkscrew located in the lower division of the handle, and preferably it
is pivoted between springs H, H, which are secured in the open handle by screws
or rivets I. These springs serve to retain the corkscrew closed, and are suitably
notched at the free end for that purpose.
The lower end of the handle terminates in a claw K, for prying out driven
tacks and nails, opening boxes, and for other useful purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents I declare that what 1 claim is,
A combination tool, comprising a hammer or hatchet having a spike F, in the

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head, and skeleton handle B, having a partition C, borizontally, and a claw termina-
tion K, all integrally cast together, a cutter D, sliding and folding within the upper
division of the handle and fixed by a clamping screw E, and a corkscrew G, located
in the lower division of the handle, as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of December 1889.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.