Improvements in and relating to Adjustable Sockets and Shanks for Garden Implements.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Adjustable Sockets and Shanks for
Garden Implements.
HENRY THOMAS DANIELS Horse Shoe Lane Stamford in the County of
Lincoln Iron Merchant and JOHN HENRY PICK 28 St. Leonard Street Stamford
in the County of Lincoln Blacksmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This socket and shank is made so as to attach any garden implement. The
tanged end of the socket is flat with a round hole in the centre and teeth round
the hole.
The shank of garden implement is the same as the tanged end of socket, flat
with hole through the centre and teeth round the hole and by putting a bolt or set
pin through the hole, screwing the same up tight draws the teeth of the socket
into the teeth of the shank and holds it fast by loosing nut or pin the implement
can be set at any angle or pitch it is required.
Dated this Fifteenth day of October 1894.
HENRY THOMAS DANIELS.
JOHN HENRY PICK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Adjustable Sockets and Shanks for
Garden Implements.
We HENRY THOMAS DANIELS of Horse Shoe Lane Stanford in the County
of Lincoln Iron Merchant and JOHN HENRY PICK of 28 St. Leonard Street
Stamford in the County of Lincoln Blacksmith do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to garden tools. The socket or shank is so constructed
that it can be adapted to any garden tool or implement and that the tool or
implement in use can be set at any angle to suit the person using it.
This is managed by the end of socket or shank, and also the tool tang being
flat with teeth placed round the bolt or pin hole, and the teeth being drawn
between one another by a bolt, pin or other adjustment.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings in which :-
:-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a socket or shank with the garden tool or implement
tang fitted together.
Figure 2 is a side plan shewing arrangement of teeth on end of socket or shank
and also on tang of garden tool or implement.
(a) is the socket or shank.
(b) is the tang which the garden tools or implements are fitted to.
(c) is the arrangement of teeth, that fit together and form the adjustment.

page_text: The arrangement of teeth (cc) is fitted to the end of socket or shank (a) and
also to the garden tooi or implement tang (b) as shewn in Figure 2. These are
fitted together as shewn in Figure 1. by the toothed surface of each being placed
together and then bolted pinued or otherwise firmly fixed together.
The garden tool or implement tang (6) being set at any angle from socket or
shank (a) to suit the person useing it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1st. A socket or shank and tang to which can be attached to any garden tool or
implement.
2nd. The garden tool or implement can be set at any angle from socket or shauk
to suit the person useing it.
Dated. this 17th day of July 1805
HENRY THOMAS DANIELS,
Horse Shoe Lane, Stamford..
JOHN HENRY PICK,
Saint Leonard Street, Stamford: