Improvements in or relating to Spanners, Screw Drivers, or other Hand Tools.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Spanners, Screw Drivers, or other
Hand Tools.
I, JOHN HOLDING of Union Forge, Saville Street, Sheffield in the county of York,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my improvements in or relating to spanners screw drivers, or other
hand tools, is to form a socket of any suitable size or length either rolled pressed or
drawn to serve as either an oblong oval or any suitable hollow shank or handle; the
jaws of any suitably-sized spanner having a short end or shank can be placed into the
hollow of the shank or handle, either at one end, or the other or both, to form a
single or double end or jawed spanner; jaws of various size are interchangeable in
the hollow shank or handle so as to make the tool serve as a spanner of any desired
size; or any other tool can be used with the handle such as screw-key, screw driver,
gimlet, and the like, where the hollow shank or handle is applicable.
In the case of bicycle accessories I take the various-sized spanners, screw-keys
screw-drivers, or the like, and the hollow shank or handle, and in any suitable
position drill a small hole through them so as to allow the passing of a small chain or
ring through them to keep them together, or if necessary they can be placed in any
suitable case or box.
The spanner jaws with their shanks, screw keys, screw-drivers or other suitable
tools can be easily stamped, or pressed out from the solid metal preferably from
steel, so that they can be hardened if necessary.
I preferably form my hollow shank or handle of rolled or drawn steel, but this even
can be made of any other metal or material according to wish.
Dated this 25th day of September 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Spanners, Screw Drivers, or other
Hand Tools.
I, JOHN HOLDING, of Union Forge, Saville Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Engineer, 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 spanners, screw drivers, or other hand tools and has for
its object the providing of a socket which may be either cast, rolled, pressed, drawn
or otherwise formed so as to serve as a hollow handle for the tool or tools. This
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handle may be of any convenient shape in cross section but is preferably oval.
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page_text: spanner having a short end or shank can be placed into the hollow handle, at one end,
or one may be inserted at each end so as to form a single or double ended spanner;
jaws of various sizes having similar shanks are interchangeable in the hollow handle
so as to make the tool serve as a spanner of an desired size; or any other tool may be
formed with a shank of the same dimensions and can then be used with the handle
such for example as a pin-spanner, screw-driver, gimlet or the like.
In the accompanying drawings;—
Figures 1 and 2 are front and side elevation respectively of a spanner with shank.
Figures 3 and 4 are front and side elevation respectively of a spanner of a smaller
size with shank.
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively front and side elevation of a pin-spanner or
cap-wrench with shank.
Figure 7 is end elevation, and
Figure 8 is a side elevation of the hollow handle showing a spanner in position
therein.
Figures 9 and 10 are front and side elevation respectively of a spoon or tyre lifter
to fit in the handle.
Figures 11 and 12 are plan and end elevation of a screw-driver for use with the
hollow handle.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In constructing my accessories say for cycles to which my invention is specially
applicable I press, stamp or fly or construct by any convenient means of any suitable
metal or material spanners such as A, A1 and A2 of any number of sizes having a very
short shank such as B, B1 and B2 and one or more pin-spanners, spoons screw-drivers
or other tools as may be considered advisable and for use with the same I form a
handle C, Figure 8, of any desired size or length, metal or material so that the shank
of any one of the tools can be fitted into an orifice C¹ at its end. Preferably the
orifice C¹ is formed with a very slight taper so as to form a firm handle to the
similarly tapered shanks of the various tools that are required and the tools are made
interchangeable so that a spanner can be replaced, for example, by a spoon or tyre-
lifter, or the same replaced by a screw-driver, gimlet or other tool that may be
applicable. The handle C may have a socket C₁ at one or both ends, it being shown
with one at each end in Figure 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The combination with a handle C of one or more sockets such as C¹ and
interchangeable tools having shanks to fit the sockets substantially as described.
2. The combination tool substantially as described or illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Deted this 8th day of November 1807
JOHN
HOLDING.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.