US344890A - Auxiliary shovel or spade handle - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILO L. WILSON, WILLIAM SANDERS, AND P. OTTO SANDERS, OF JEFFERSON, INDIANA.

AUXILIARY SHOVEL OAR SPADE HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,890, dated July 6, 1886.

Application filed September 22, 1885. Serial No. 177,811.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that we, MILo L. WILsoN, WILL- IAM SANDERS, and I?. Orro SANDERS, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Jefferson, in the county of Pulaski and State of Indiana, haveinvented eertainnew and useful Improvements in Auxiliary Shovel and Spade Handles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to an improvement in shovels, spades, and like implements.

The object of the invention is to provide more convenient means for handling such implements; and to that end it consists in an auxiliary handle therefor of novel construction, as hereinafter described.

Reference will be made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a shovel, partly broken away, and showing ourimproved attachmentin position; Fig. 2, a View in elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the attachment; and Fig. 3, a planv in detail, and partly broken, of the same.

Like letters refer to like parts in each view.

In the drawings, A represents the blade of the instrument, and B the handle, to which it is secured.

Our invention consists in providing an auxiliary handle of the construction now to be described. This handle consists ot' a bar, C, bifurcated at its upper end, and carrying a cross-bar, D. Bar C, at the point shown, is bent and ends in a semicircular band, O, such semicircular band being provided upon its outer end with an ear or lug, a. At the point where bar C branches off into the semicircular band C there is a curved passage or opening formed, into which a hook-shaped arm, b, of a semicircular band, E, is inserted, such arm serving as a pivot or hinge, upon which band Eis adapted to move. Band E is also one, a, of band O.

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with a screw-threaded hole, through which a thumbscrew, F, is passed, means being thus provided for drawing the outer ends of bands O and E together. At or about its center band E is also provided with ascrew-threaded hole, through which a thumb -screw, G, is u L acter describedhave heretofore been provided with auxiliary handles, said handles being both detachable from and adj ustable upon the main handle, and used for the same purpose as ours, and therefore we do not claim, broadly, the use of such an auxiliary handle; nor do we claim the adjustable and detachable features thereof; but

In an auxiliaryimplement-handle, the combination, with a bar, C, carrying at one end a cross-piece, D, and at the opposite end formed with a semicircular band, O', of a semicircular band, E, provided at one end with a hookshaped extension or arm, b, and means for locking the parts in position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MILO L; WILSON. WILLIAM SANDERS. P. OTTO SANDERS.

Witnesses:

M. J. OLAGETT, FRANK S. BLANCHARD.

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