TCHET BRACES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Neil at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd September 1881.
CHARLES NEIL, of Sheffield, in the County of York.
RATCHET BRACES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
According to this Invention I make the frame or fork part of the tool and the
handle for same in two pieces, and construct and combine them with the pawl as
hereinafter described, whereby I am enabled to make the tool cheaper and stronger
than the ordinary ratchet brace.
The frame is formed with a hole to receive the handle, which may conveniently.
be fastened therein by being driven in, and by one or two pins through both, or by
a pin and by the pawl spring screw. The handle protrudes so far into or through
the frame as to form a means of attachment and abutment for the pawl. This
latter I preferably attach by means of a pin driven in or a screw screwed into the
end of the handle, and passing through a hole in the pawl at right angles to the,
direction now usual for the joint pin. On the opposite side I carry up the side
higher, or leave as much substance in the frame and between the two sides of the
fork as possible, whereby I strengthen it, in addition to which the frame is also
stronger by reason of the joint pin or screw for the pawl being fastened in the
handle, as stated, and not in the forked part of the frame, which in the ordinary
ratchet brace is bored through both sides to take the pin on which the pawl is
fitted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Neil in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd March
1882.
CHARLES NEIL, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
RATCHET BRACES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
According to this Invention I make the frame or fork part of the tool and the
handle for same in two pieces, and construct and combine them with the pawl as
hereinafter described, whereby I am enabled to make the tool cheaper and stronger
than the ordinary ratchet brace. The frame is formed with a hole to receive the
handle, which may conveniently be fastened therein by being driven in, and by
one or two pins through both, or by a pin and by the pawl spring screw. The
handle protrudes so far into or through the frame as to form a means of attach-
ment and abutment for the pawl. This latter I preferably attach by means of
a pin driven in or a screw screwed into the end of the handle, and passing
through a hole in the pawl at right angles to the direction now usual for the
joint pin.
On the opposite side I carry up the side higher, or leave as much substance in
the frame and between the two sides of the fork as possible, whereby I strengthen
it, in addition to which the frame is also stronger by reason of the joint pin or
screw for the pawl being fastened in the handle, as stated, and not in the forked
part of the frame, which in the ordinary ratchet brace is bored through both sides
to take the pin on which the pawl is fitted.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a sectional side elevation, and
Figure 2 a transverse section through a ratchet brace constructed according to this
my Invention. The handle A is made in a piece separate from the forked frame B,
and fastened thereto by being driven firmly into the frame, and by means of
screw C and the screw D, which also serve to fasten the pawl spring E. The
pawl F is by means of a screw G connected to the handle A. The hole through
the pawl for the screw G is, as will be observed, in the opposite direction to that
for the ordinary pawl hinge pin, and it is of such a size and form as to allow the
pawl F to work freely as required. The frame B is thus not weakened by the
hole for the pawl joint pin or screw, as in the usual ratchet brace, and I moreover
strengthen the frame by carrying up the opposite side as far as possible, as shewn
at B The other parts of the ratchet brace are here shewn of the usual form, but
my_improvements-are-applicablo-also-to-other-forms-of-ratchet-brace:
And having thus described and ascertained the nature of this Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I declare that I claim,―
The improved ratchet brace, in which the handle, the frame, and the pawl are
constructed and combined substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Neil, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.