IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING TOOLS KNOWN AS BRUSHING BILLS, HOOKS, OR SLASHERS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER LIKE TOOLS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cornelius Whitehouse, of Cannock, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING
TOOLS KNOWN AS BRUSHING BILLS, HOOKS, OR SLASHERS, ALSO APPLICABLE
TO OTHER LIKE TOOLS."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cornelius Whitehouse at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th July 1880.
CORNELIUS WHITEHOUSE, of Cannock, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer.
IMPROVEME IN CUTTING TOOLS KNOWN AS BRUSHING BILLS, Hooks, or
SLASHERS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO LIKE TOOLS."
My Invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the
construction of parts of edge tools in commerce known as brushing bills, hooks,
slashers, &c.
I dispense with the two straps of iron hitherto employed for connecting the
handle or the shaft to the tool, and adopt what I may term a socket formed by
cutting or piercing a blank from iron or other metal, this is closed up with its
edges in proximity to each other; finally, this is united to the tool by welding, but
so arranged that the above described edges form the exterior edge of the tool, my
chief ob et being to prevent the handle or shaft from receiving injury when
employed to its purpose. In some cases I may prefer to bring the edges of the said
socket to the one side of the cutting tool, and thus protect both the interior and
exterior edges of the same.
The advantages derivable from my Invention are as follows:-Stronger, with
greater durability, and more economical and presentable in appearance.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Cornelius Whitehouse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
January 1881.
CORNELIUS WHITEHOUSE, of Cannock, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING TOOLS KNOWN AS BRUSHING BILLS, HOOKS, OR
SLASHERS, APPLICABLE TO OTHER LIKE TOOLS."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein after described in the
construction of parts of edge tools in commerce known as brushing bills, hooks,
and slashers, &c.
I dispense with the two straps of iron hitherto employed-for-connecting--the-
handle or the shaft to the tool, and adopt what I may term a socket and strap formed
by cutting or piercing a blank from iron or other metal, this is closed up with its
edges in proximity to each other; finally, this is united to the tool by welding, but
so arranged that the above described edges form the exterior edge of the tool, my
chief object boing to prevent the handle or shaft from receiving injury when
employed to its purpose. In some cases I may prefer to bring the edges of the said
socket to the one side of the cutting tool, and-thus protect both the interior and
exterior edges of the same.
The advantages derivable from my Invention are as follows:-Stronger, with
greater durability, and more economical and presentable in appearance.
But as my Invention will be bost understood aided by a reference to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, I will proceed to describe the same, reference-being-
made to the Figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
Figure 1 is a sido view elevation.
Figure 2, edge view elevation; Figure 3, back view elevation; Figure 4, cross
section; Figure 5, side view elevation; Figure 6, edge view clevation; Figure 7,
back view elevation; Figure 8, cross section.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing. "A is the blade; "B" is the handle or shaft; "C," the socket strap
fitted upon "B," and secured by the pins or rivets " D."
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is or may be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein given and shewn
on the accompanying Drawings, but what I claim as new and desire to be secured
to me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The construction and arrangement of socket straps in form elliptical, with its
edges brought to the back or side and pointed, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Whitehouse, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
CORNELIUS WHITEHOUSE. (L.S.)
Witness,
THOMAS KENDRICK,