Improvements in Miners' Picks, Hammers, Hatchets, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Miners' Picks, Hammers, Hatchets, and the like.
I, FRANK JACOB HUTE of 17 New Street, Pendlebury, Manchester, Miner,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has for its object an improved construction of miners' pick.
According to my invention instead of forming an eye or hole in the pick as
heretofore and passing it over the wooden shaft or handle I form recesses in the
side of the pick and introduce the pick into a socket specially formed to receive it,
said socket having two sides which curve over at the top.
The end of the shaft or. handle is formed with a tapered opening corresponding
to the recessed portion of the pick and of a corresponding slope or taper.
In placing the parts of the pick together the handle or shaft is pushed up into
the socket and the recessed portion of the pick is then inserted into the socket
and simultaneously into the tapered opening in the end of the shaft and on being
dealt a sharp blow such pick expands the divided end of the shaft and secures
it in the socket. A channel iron wedge is then driven in between the curved
portions of the socket and the top of the pick and thus the parts are effectually
secured together.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side view, Figs. 2 and 4 side sectional
and plan views and Fig. 3 a trausverse sectional view of a miners' pick constructed
in accordance with my invention.
A designates the pick with the recesses B B into which takes the socket C at
each side. The socket is formed with two curved portions D D to receive the
edges of the wedge E. F is the stick or handle with V cut or tapered opening G
which is introduced up into the socket and held therein by the pick A which
expands or separates the two ends H and I on being driven in. The sides of the
recessed portion of the pick are more or less similarly tapered to the V cut in the
handle or shaft.
After the pick has been introduced into the socket the channel shaped
wedge E is driven under the two curved or overhanging portions D D with its
thinner end in the direction in which the pick is used and thus all the parts are
effectually secured together.
The end of the handle or shaft is formed square to fit more perfectly into the
socket and to have additional strength. To more securely fix the socket on the
stick I may insert a pin or bolt as shewn dotted in Fig. 1.
My improvements are equally applicable to hammers, hatchets and the like as
will be well understood without the aid of drawings.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
1st. In a miners' pick hammer, hatchet or the like the use and employment of
the socket C with curved or turned down portions D, D in combination with the
stick or handle F with V cut G to receive the recessed pick A all secured by a
channel or grooved wedge E substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 29th day of October 1892.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent.