An Improved Tool for Opening Nailed Boxes and for other like uses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tool for Opening Nailed Boxes and for other like uses.
We, THOMAS WILLIAM NEWEY, and JOSEPH HENRY NEWEY, trading
together as Thomas Newey & Son, of Allison Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved tool for opening nailed
boxes and for other like uses the said tool being so constructed that the boards
forming the box can be separated from each other without breaking them where the
nails pass through and the nails can be withdrawn straight or almost straight so as
to be used over again.
The said improved tool is preferably made of steel and at one end is shaped like
a chisel the other end being adapted to be struck by a hammer. In the said chisel
shaped end there is a short longitudinal slot of a size to admit the largest nail with
which the tool is likely to be used.
At a short distance say at about one and a half inches from the chisel shaped end
there is at one or both sides of the tool a projection which is slightly inclined so
that between this projection and the shank of the tool there is a V shaped notch
pointing towards the chisel end of the tool. The metal of the tool is bevelled off
towards the V notch or V notches so as to enable them to be placed under the nail
heads when using the tool for withdrawing nails as hereinafter described.
The improved tool above described is used as follows:-The chisel end of the
tool is inserted and driven in between the nailed lid or other board of the box which
is required to be removed close to a nail the slot in the tool allowing of the two
parts of the tool being driven in at each side of the nail and thus prising up
the board and slightly withdrawing the nail and as the tool has a bearing on the
board at each side of the nail the board is not split as is the case when a board is
prised up by an ordinary chisel driven in at one side of the nail. The tool is now
withdrawn and the nail removed by placing the tool so that one of its ✓ notches
engages under the nail head and then using the tool as a lever of the first
order turning about its chisel end as a fulcrum and withdrawing the nail without
bending it.
The improved tool above described can if preferred be made without the
V notches for withdrawing the nails or it may be made with only one of the
V notches but we prefer to make the tool with two V notches and to make them
slightly different in size so that they will the better suit large nails and small nails.
The root of the small slot in the chisel shaped end is by preference made like a
blunt chisel so as to serve for cutting off nails of which the heads are broken.
Dated this 6th day of January 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tool for Opening Nailed Boxes and for other like uses..
We, THOMAS WILLIAM NEWEY, and JOSEPH HENRY NEWEY, trading
together as Thomas Newey & Son, of Allison Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improved tool for opening nailed
boxes and for other like uses the said tool being so constructed that the boards
forming the box can be separated from each other without breaking them where the
nails pass through and the nails can be withdrawn straight or almost straight so as
to be used over again.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of our improved tool and
Fig. 3 is a cross section of the same on line X X of Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 shews how the said tool is used for withdrawing nails and
Fig. 5 shews one end of a modified form of our invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 it will be seen that the
said improved tool consists of a bar a of metal (preferably steel) which is at one
end 6 shaped like a chisel the other end e being adapted to be struck by a hammer.
In the chisel shaped end there is a longitudinal slot d of a size to admit the
largest nail with which the tool is likely to be used. At a short distance, say at
about one and a half inches more or less, from the chisel shaped end there is at
each side of the tool a projection marked respectively el e² each of which projections
is slightly inclined as shewn on the drawing so that between each of these
projections and the shank a there is a V shaped notch pointing towards the chisel
end of the tool these notches being respectively marked f1f2. The metal of the
tool is as shewn on the drawing bevelled off towards the V notches so as to
enable them to be placed under the nail heads when using the tool for withdrawing
nails as hereinafter described.
The improved tool above described is used as follows: -The chisel end of the
tool is inserted and driven in between the nailed lid or other board of the box which
is required to be removed, close to a nail, the slot d in the tool allowing of the two
parts bb of the chisel end of the tool being driven in at each side of the nail and
thus prising up the board and slightly withdrawing the nail, and as the tool has a
bearing on the board at each side of the nail the board is not split as is usually the
case when a board is prised up by an ordinary chisel driven in at one side of the
nail. The said tool is now withdrawn and the nail is removed by placing the tool
so that one of its V notches say f engages under the nail head g as shewn in Fig. 4
and then using the tool as a lever of the first order turning about its chisel end 6 as
a fulcrum and withdrawing the nail without bending it.
The said improved tool can without departing from the nature of this invention
be made with only one of the ✓ notches say f¹ as shewn by Fig. 5 but we prefer to
make the two V notches as first above described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 4 and to make the V notches f¹ƒ slightly different in size so that they will the
better suit large nails and smaller nails. By an examination of Fig. 1 it will be
seen that the V notch is made slightly larger than the V notch so that
the notch f¹ will serve for withdrawing large nails and the V notch ƒ³ will serve
for withdrawing smaller nails.
The root of the small slot d in the chisel shaped end is by preference made like

page_text: a blunt chisel as shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 5 so as to serve for cutting off nails
of which the heads are broken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The hereindescribed improved tool for opening nailed boxes and for other like
uses consisting essentially of a metal bar made at one end of a divided chisel shape,
for driving under and prising up a board at the sides of a nail, in combination with
one or more inclined side projections such as e¹ e² forming a V notch or notches such
as ff adapted to engage under the heads of nails and withdraw the same,
all substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 12th day of June 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.