USRE1230E - Imf lxfement in spade - Google Patents

Description

G. G. HO WARD.

Toni-Handle.

Reissued Oct. 22, 1861.

19)? and holder.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. V. BLANCHARD, J. D. BLANOHARD, ANQT. BLANOHARI),

0h PALMER,

MAssui HUsnT'rs, Asslonnnston o. o. nownrn,

IMFBOEMENT .IN SPADE, SHOVEL, 0R DUNG-FORK HANDiiS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it; known that; we, A. V. BLANGHARD, J. 1). BLANGHARD, and F. ammonium, all of Palmer, in the county of Ilampden and State of Massachusetts, sole assignees jot G.

J. HOWARD, of Hardwick,- in thecounty of Worcester and State atorehid, do hereby declare that the said G. O. iilownnn' did invent an Improved Manullnzure of of obtainiug'a reissue of the Letters Patent granted to said HOWARD for said invention, do herebydeclnre thatthe-tollowingis a full, clear, and exact, description of the same, refercncc being had to the annexed drawings,

forming part pit this speeifieationjiyr which- Ifigure 1 is'aside view of the ipvention; Fig.2, a top View of the same; Fig.3,nl011gi' tudinalsection taken through both of the 'arms of the eye, and Fig. 4, a transverse section 't holder. r Similar letters ot refcrencc indicate correspopding parts in the several figures.

This invention is-designed to supersede the ordinary mod 1- ot' the handle by economizing in stock and rendering the handle more durable than those Construction.

Ill r ying out this invention a bar, A, of W005i, f the kind used for such purposes, is Bo e o split longitudinally about six inches at its outer end, or the en designed for the After the bar is thus sawed, it Is properly steamed, and the two partso a of the bar, formed by'the kert or split, are bent so is toform a fork, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the space b between said parts a a ng 1118:59515 of the handle.v In 'ordertopre ven'ttho pm A from spliting farther during t e opera ion of bending the parts or arms a the bar A may haven rivet, 0. passed "tough and fixed into it previous to the bendingopcration, such rivet: being arranged as shown in Fig. 3. These forked parts'or arms a a are next to be applied to the holder B, which may be done as foliows: Eaeh end of the holder 13' is formed with. a concave or angular recess, d to receive a corresponding convex or-angniar projection, 0, made on the inner end of the adjacent arm a. The whole alien ina line with the axis of the is next to be screwed together by metallic caps Shovel, Spade,- or Dung-Fork Handle; and we, for the 1m rpose formingthe eye and holder D D, and 'a rod, E, extending through tin holder, the arms, and the caps and riveted down upon thelatter. These caps are formed so as to extend partially and ho'rizontsil'y around the arms, ana'? in the drawings each of them is shown united to a metallic annnlus, f, which receives the end of she holder and prevents it, from becoming split or cracked open. Thcannulus also made with a con cavity or recess, g, both above and below the cap, and for the reception of the convexity of the arm, this serving as an addition to the bearing for the 'arms, while the ring and cap so embrace the arm as to prevent; it from being split by the riveted rod 'i') This mode of making a shovel or spade handhs is far preferable to that; where the whole handle and eye or head "are out from one piece of board equal in width to the width. of thehead 'of't'he handle,-for in the latter case thopnrts or arms a a, and a so holder l are liable to split, owing to the direction of the grain ofthe wood, and the Lia-liter or old modeof construction is attended "with a considerablewnste of timber.

By this method of making the handle :1 piece of wood that would be necessarily used in the old plan for making onehandlo only will make three-or four handles, and there'- fore that: which. would be otherwise wasted by the old-plan of making the handle is saved by this method;

Havingthus described-the inrcntion, when we claim as new, and desire to seenre by Letters Patent, is

A handle for shorels and similar or mini ogo'usimplements having its eyeb and holder -B formed by splitting or sawing. longitndh naily for asuitable distance the end of the ,hnri A, ond'th'enbending the parts or nrms. so, formed by the split ordxerflin the-term of F a fork, and securing the holder B-in any suit iable way between the parts drama a a, I whereby a new and improved article of mam l nt'aetu re is obtained for the purpose specified A." v. BLANGHARD. J..D. BLANOHARD. FRANKLIN BLANCHARD;

Witnessesr' I h Gino.v P. BLAjncnAnn, JAMES Lsmn.

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