Improvements in the Construction and Manufacture of Hoes and Rakes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in the Construction and Manufacture of Hoes
and Rakes.
I WILLIAM SIMMONDS SKELTON of Sheafbank Works, Heeley, Sheffield in the
County York, Shovel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF HOES
AND RAKES," to be as follows:-
This invention relates more particularly to an improved mode of constructing the
tang strap or socket to which the handle or haft is secured, hereinafter called the
socket, and to the manner in which the said socket is fastened or affixed to the Hoe.
or Rake as the case may be.
The material of which the socket is formed may be cut stamped or flyed into the
required shape, out of a sheet of metal and afterwards bent hollowed, recessed or
otherwise formed to fit the handle or haft, the end of the socket which is fastened
or affixed to the Hoe or Rake (and which as already stated has been previously
reduced to the required form) is bent or turned at right angles or nearly so to that
portion of the socket which is secured to the handle or haft, the end of the socket so
bent, would be fastened or affixed to either the front or the back of the implement,
(Hoe or Rake) by two or more rivets or their equivalent.
Sockets of similar form having similar means of fastening or affixing to the
implement may be constructed of Cast or Cast Malleable or forged metal.
D.L. 11
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CT TOOK
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction and Manufacture of Hoes
and Rakes.
I, WILLIAM SIMMONDS SKELTON, of Sheafbank Works, Heeley, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Shovel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF
HOES, AND RAKES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described, and ascertained, in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates more particularly to an improved mode of constructing the
tang, strap, or socket, to which the handle, or haft, is secured hereinafter called the
socket, and to the manner in which the said socket is fastened or affixed to the Hoe
or Rake.as the case may be.
The material of which the socket is formed may be cut stamped or flyed into the
required shape, out of a sheet of metal, and afterwards bent, hollowed, recessed, or
otherwise formed to fit the handle or haft, the end of the socket which is fastened
or affixed to the Hoe or Rake, (and which as already stated has been previously
reduced to the required form) is bent or turned at right angles or nearly so to that
portion of the socket which is secured to the handle or haft, the end of the socket so
bent, would be fastened or affixed to either the front or the back of the implement
(Hoe or Rake) by two or more rivets or their equivalent.
Sockets of similar form having similar means of fastening or affixing to the
implement may be constructed of Cast or Cast Malleable, or forged metal.
The nature of my Invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of Drawings which illustrate the mode of construction of my
improved socket when made out of plate or sheet metal in which,
Fig. 1, Represents the blank after it has been cut stamped or flyed into the
required shape.
(The holes as shewn in this figure or similar holes being afterwards drilled or
punched in the blank).
Fig. 2, Represents the same blank after it has been bent, hollowed, recessed or
otherwise formed to fit the handle or haft.
Fig. 3, Is another view of the socket as illustrated in Fig. 2, after the end of the
socket which is to be fastened or affixed to the hoe or rake has been bent or turned
at right angles or nearly so to that portion of the socket which is formed to receive
the handle or haft.
Fig. 4, Is the obverse view of Fig. 3, shewing the manner in which the socket is
bent and closed for the reception of the handle or haft.
Fig. 5, Is a side view or elevation of the sape.
Fig. 6, Is a similar view to Fig. 5, shewing an elevation of the socket and mode
of attaching the same to a hoe, rake, or similar implement, and likewise its position
on the end of the handle or haft.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
(1.) Bending turning or forming the end of the socket to which the hoe, rake or
other implement, is attached at right angles or nearly so to that portion of the
socket which is formed to receive the handle, or haft, the end of the socket so bent,
turned, or formed, being fastened or affixed to either the front or back of the
implement, (hoe or rake) by two or more rivets or their equivalent.
(2.) Improvements in the construction and Manufacture of hoes and rakes as
herein described and illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 26th day of October 1885
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.