Improvements in Combination Tools.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Tools.
I, JOHN LAURENT DROUILLY of Bank Buildings, East Bank Street, Southport
in the County of Lancaster, Professor, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to combination or universal tools, and is designed to fulfil
the purpose of pincers, hammer, screw-driver, splitter, wrench, spanner, measure,
rule, etcetera.
The plan which I prefer is to form the tool of a pair of pivoted jaws with arms
or legs which form handles. On the side of one jaw there is a projection to form a
hammer, while the other jaw may be constructed to form a hatchet or splitting edge.
The two jaws themselves are shaped at adjacent edges to form pincers and also
between the jaws to form a spanner or wrench. The end of one of the arms or
handles forms a screw-driver, while the end of the other arm may be made to form
a wrench or nail extractor. The arms form measuring rules on which may be
marked any suitable English or foreign measures, such as the English scale of
inches and feet and the French metrical scale.
Dated this 13th day of October 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Tools.
I, JOHN LAURENT DROUILLY of Bank Buildings, East Bank Street, Southport
in the Connty of Lancaster, Professor, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention 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 to combination or universal tools, and is designed to fulfil
the purpose of pincers or nippers, hammer, hatchet, screw-driver, nail holder or vice,
opening wrench, spanner, measuring rule, nail extractor and lever.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which :-
Figure 1 is a face view of the tool: and
Figure 2, an end view.
In these figures―
A and B are two legs pivoted together at C. At the end of A is a screw-driver
which is made rather longer than the other leg, so that it may be used without the
other interfering. At the end of B is a nail extractor. Leg A is marked with a
scale of inches, leg B with a scale of centimetres. E is a hatchet: F, a hammer:
G, a hole, narrow on one face of the tool and wider on the other face, but
approximately square and forming a wrench or spanner, opening to fit various sizes
of screw nuts. The crack at H is formed like an ordinary nipper or pincers with a
hole I in the centre to serve as a vice or nail holder.
I prefer to arrange the screw driver and nail extractor facing the same way, and
the ends of both legs sloping to a thin edge as shown on the drawing, so as to enter
interstices together. It will thus be seen that, when the two legs are placed close
together as shown, they can be used either singly or collectively as a lever or
splitter, or collectively as a nut cracker. By this means, a double strength of
leverage is secured.

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. The construction of a combination tool, adapted to the various uses herein set
forth substantially as described and illustrated, and in particular the following
combinations :—
(a) The combination, with a hammer, hatchet, nail holder and pincers, of an
opening screw-key, spanner, or wrench, substantially as herein described,
also in such tools the arrangement of the said opening wrench of larger
diameter on one face of the tool than on the other so as to fit a variety of
different sized nuts.
(b) The arrangement of the legs, close to one another, and of the screw-driver
and nail extractor (one made somewhat longer than the other) facing the
same side so as to enter interstices together and to act singly or collectively
as a lever.
(c) In combination with a tool such as described, English and French measures
stamped or otherwise marked thereon.
Dated this 12th day of July 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.