IMPROVEMENTS IN MATTOCKS, PICKS, HOES, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Kaye and Charles Kaye, of Lockwood, near
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Wheelwrights and Implement
Makers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATTOCKS, PICKS, HOES,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kaye and Charles
Kaye at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 30th January 1858.
We, WILLIAM KAYE and CHARLES KAYE, of Lockwood, near Huddersfield,
in the County of York, Wheelwrights and Implement Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATTOCKS, PICKS,
HOES, HAMMERS, AND SIMILAR IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS, to be as follows:-
We make the eye or opening for receiving the shaft or handle in mattocks
and picks, so as to form a boss or socket of greater depth or extent through
the eye than usual in such implements, thereby supporting, strengthening, and
protecting the shaft from undue wear. We also make the eye or eyes of all
such or similar implements and tools taper or wider on one side than the

page_text: other, the shaft or handle being inserted at the wide side of the eye or
opening, and secured or fastened therein by a screw, bolt, or pin passing into or
through the socket, and into or through the shaft or handle, thus dispensing
with wedges for such purposes, by which improvements we can easily remove
and replace the shafts or handles of such implements and tools without injury
thereto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Kaye and Charles Kaye in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
KAYE and CHARLES KAYE, of Lockwood, near Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Wheelwrights and Implement Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said William Kaye and Charles Kaye, Her special licence that we, the said
William Kaye and Charles Kaye, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said William Kaye and Charles Kaye, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATTOCKS, PICKS, HOES, HAMMERS,
AND SIMILAR IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said William Kaye and Charles Kaye, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Kaye and Charles Kaye, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):-
We make the eye or opening for receiving the shaft or handle in mattocks
and picks so as to form a boss or socket of greater depth or extent through
the
eye than usual in such implements, thereby supporting, strengthening, and
protecting the shaft from undue wear. We also make the eye or eyes of all
such or similar implements and tools taper or wider on one side than the
other, the shaft or handle being inserted at the wide side of the eye or
opening, and secured or fastened therein by a screw, bolt, or pin passing into
or through the socket, and into or through the shaft or handle, thus dispensing
with wedges for 'such purposes, by which improvements we can easily remove
and replace the shafts of such implements and tools without injury thereto.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawings will clearly explain the manner in
which the Invention is performed or carried into practice.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the middle portion of a mattock head, with part of
a shaft inserted.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, with the shaft in section; the eye is formed taper
from the inside or wider on the inside than the outside, and much deeper or
of greater extent through the eye or socket than usual, whereby the head is
rendered stronger and the shaft more securely fixed therein, and protected
thereby from undue wear than heretofore by the ordinary construction of
mattocks and similar implements and tools. The shaft is held in the eye or
socket by a set screw A.
Fig. 3 shews a head with the eye made taper the reverse way in which the
shaft may be fastened or held, either by a set screw at A or B, or simply by a
pin driven in, as shewn at B.
It will be perceived that by these our improvements, the heads of such
implements and tools can be readily removed from their respective shafts,
either for the purpose of sharpening or repairing, or for rendering them more
portable.
Having thus fully described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be distinctly
understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of construc-
tion, as herein set forth; but we claim as our Invention, and which to the best
of our knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm, the
constructing mattocks, picks, hoes, hammers, and similar implements and tools,
as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,

page_text: or any modification whereby the shafts of such implements and tools are
rendered portable, and secured therein by a set screw, bolt, or pin..
In witness whereof, we, the said William Kaye and Charles Kaye,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Kaye and
Charles Kaye, in the presence of
WILLIAM KAYE. (L.S.)
CHARLES KAYE. (L.S.)
WN TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.