US63110A - Improved stove-cover lifter - Google Patents

Description

A. SHEPARD.

Lid'Lifter.

No. 63,110. Patented March I9, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, AMOS SHEPARD, of Plan-tsville, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and improved Form or Shape for the Sockets or Ferrules of Cast-Metal Stove-Cover Lifters, in which wood handles are to be attached; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the acompanying drawings, forming part of-the specifications, in which'.

Figure 1 is a top view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a side View of the same.

Figure 3 is a bottom view of the same.

Figure 4 is a side view of a section of the same.

Figure 5 is a top view of the cast-metal stove-cov'erlifter in which the wood handle is to be attached Figure 6 is a side view of. a section of the same.

Figure 7 is a side view of a section of the cast-metal stove-cover lifter, and of the mouldin which it is east.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention consists in constructing a perforated hollow socket or ferrule in such a manner that all of the metal on the top of the socket or ferrule shall be opposite openings or apertures in the bottom of the socket or ferrule and all of the metal on the bottom, opposite openings or apertures in the top. The sides are both alike, and form the connection of the socket or ferrule. A; wooden handle inserted in the socket or ferrule is held in its place by a spike or pin, driven into the wood through a groove or slot in the socket or ferrule, which groove or slot is in'the side of the metal opposite the side towards which the handle is driven.

A designates the wood handle; B designates the cast-metal stove-cover lifter; C designates the opening or aperture in the top of the socket or ferrule; D D designate the openings or apertures in the bottom of the socket or ferrule; E E designates the metal on the top of the socket or ferrule; F designates the metal on the bottom of the socket or ferrule; G designates the spike or pin; H designates the groove or slot to receive the spike or pin G; I designates the top or cope part of the mould in which the stove-cover lifter is cast; J designates the bottom or nowel part of the mould in which the stove-cover lifter is cast. I

To mould one of these stove-cover lifters, the pattern should be placed with the bottom side uppermost on a mould or follow-b0ard.- T-he mould-board should be of the same shape as the top or cope part, fig. 7, letter I, thus fitting the upper half of the pattern in order to secure the Saudi! parting at the desired points. The sand is then put on and packed, a bottom-board placed upon it, and the whole turned over. This forms the bottom or nowel part of the mould. The mould-board is next removed, which leaves the upper half of the pattern in position to form thcupper or cope part, which is next done. The sand as it is packed extends through the opening or aperture C to the metal F on the bottom of the socket or ferrule, while the sand forming the bottom or nowel part, letter J, extends through the openings or apertures D D to the metal E E on the top of the socket or ferrule. After the sand forming the top or cope part has been packed it is lifted or taken oif from the bottom or nowel part, the pattern is withdrawn, the top or cope part replaced, and the mould is readyfor the reception of the molten metal. v

In the ordinary method of mouldingor casting the sockets of stove-cover lifters the pattern is made longer than the article to be moulded or cast in order to make a print in the sand in which to place a core. A core, having one part of the size and shape to fit the print, and the other part of the size and shape required for the inside of the socket or ferrule, isplaced in the print, with the part intended to form the inside of the socket or ferrule projecting into the cavity in the mould, from which the pattern has been previously withdrawn. After the article has .been cast the core is broken in pieces and removed. By-my invention the expense of making, setting, and removing the core is entirely avoided. The mould does not have to be made larger than the article cast in order to make a print for a core to be set in, and is consequently much easier for the moulderto handle. A wooden handle, fig. 4, letter A, is inserted in the socket or ferrulefand the spike or pin G driven into it through the groove or slot H, figs. 5 and 6, which groove or slot is placed in the side of the metal opposite the side towards-which the handle is inserted. This secures the handle from being pulled out of or turning in the socket or ferrule. By myinvention Iproduce an article for cast-metal stove-cover lifters that is light and ornamental," dispensing with the use or employment of a core in casting or moulding it, thus making a saving of nearly one-half in the expense of moiilding.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i.s- 1. A cast-metal stove-cover lifter with the perforated hollow and notched socket or ferrule, substahtially as described. I

2. Iciairn casting the herein-described perforated hollow socket or ferrule, inihe manner and by means substantially ass-described, for the reception of wood handles.

- AMOS SHEPARD.

Witnesses:

-F. B. BRADLEY,

H. R. BRADLEY.

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