US1356673A - Carpenter's hand-hammer - Google Patents

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UNIVTE STA SANFORD s; VAUGHAN, oFoAKPAR'K, ILLINOIS.

jcAnrmv'rnns HAND-HAMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent. 'Patnte 1 26 1920 Application filed November 24, 1917. Serial no. 203,656.

' a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oak Park, in the county-of Cook-and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Carpenters" Hand-Hammers, of which the following is a specification. I H

. My invention relates to hand hammers such as are used by carpenters for driving nails. has special reference to an addition to the hammer handle, resulting in a combined hammer and nail waxing device, the object of which is to afford convenience to the workman and eifect a saving in his time, labor. and material. A

lVhen carpenters are driving nails in hard wood, for instance in laying hard wood floors, it is their practice to coat at least the point portions of the nails with beeswax to facilitate their passage through the wood. 1

The workman usually carries a chunk of the wax in his overalls pocket or keeps the samelying handy while being thus engaged. Frequently the wax so handled becomes lost or V misplaced, usually it is full of dirt and chips, and at all times it is subject to considerable wastage in the breaking away of pieces while being used and also by being rubbed and worn by the tools and other objects in the pockets and in the kit.

The present improvements contemplate a supply of the wax in a substantially inclosed well or recess in the handle of the hammer used, the receptacle being adapted to contain a material quantity of'the wax and maintain it in clean condition, avoid its wastage, insure its presence-when and where needed, and render the operation of coating the nail rapid and easy.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a side view of a hammer showing the Well and its closure by dotted lines; A V 7 Fig.2 is a sectional fragment showing the closure for the well in its initial'form and location ready to be secured in substantially permanent position; and c Fig. 3 is a similar section showing the device of Fig. 2 with the closure in its final relative position.

Preferably axially of the handle a boring is made of substantial diameter resulting in the well 10, having a sufficient depth to receive a considerable portion of the larger sized nails. In practice I make the well metal 13.

' itsshape seen in Fig. 8, whereupon, owing 1 to its enlargement in diameter due toflatabout one and one-half inches deep. Surrounding the open end of the well 10 the 7 wood is preferably countersunk or recessed, as shown at 11,:to a depth 'suflicient to accommodate the preferably metallic plate-like closure '13 whereby theplate will lie prefera ably almost flush with the handle end. The plate is provided with a simple opening 15- therethrough which is relatively small with respect to the diameter of the well and is' 'preferably only large enough to admit easily the larger sizes of nails which are likely to be used. A three-sixteenths of an inch opening: will be suff cient for allordinarypurposes. The plate 13 is preferably a circular disklike metallic stamping initially concavo-convex in form,fand, when in fitsinitial shape, as shown in Fig. 2, has a diameter just 'sufficient to enable it to enter thecircular re- 'cess 11,-which circular recess is preferably slightly deefier than the thickness of the y means of pressure, such as ahammer blow, the disk 13 is flattened into toning, it becomes tightly engaged with the surrounding wood by compressingthe fibers thereof and causing an overlapping bur seen at20, Fig. 3', the disk 13 being thus quite rigidly held inposition. As thehandle becomes older and more seasoned the contraction of the wood tends to bind the disk 13 still more tightly. While the disk 13 the opening 15, which may conveniently be .done byv melting the wax and pouring it through the opening 15 or by forcing the wax directly through the hole. 7

In operation the workman holds the hammer in one hand while reaching for a nail with the other; Having picked up a nail he simply inserts the end-thereof through the nail hole 15 and intothe body of the wax 18 causing it to become coated 1 thereby. It sometimes happens that a considerable quantity of the wax adheres to the nail, but, owing to the small size of the openingin the 105 closure plate, the excess is automatically scraped away and remains in the well,and thus a saving of wax is effected in this regard. The restricted size of the opening 15 and its preferred axial arrangement with respect to the well effectively avoids the loss of particles of wax whichmay become loosened froni the main body, and the opening is I also so located with respect-tothe sidesof the handle that when the handle'is lying about dirt, chips, shavings and thelike are effectively prevented from getting into the Well. a

- An important feature of these improvethe lightness of the added part, and the ease 'o'foperation in service.

It is not broadly newto provide'a hammer handle with a Well therein for a lubricant together With a closure for the'well, and I do not claimsuch as my invention. Reference shouldbehad to the appended claims to determine. the

scope of the invention herein set forth.

"I claim: "1 '1. A 'woodenflhammer handlehaving a longitudinal bore in one end forming a Well and having a countersink about the opening of the vvell, a plate-like member having lateral dimensions greater than the corresponding dimensions of the said countersink, said member being Within the countersink and compressing the Wood fibers at the edges thereofso that said fibers overhang the peripheral edges of the said member, the memthe Well; v v V 2. A wooden hammer handlehav'ing a longitudinal boring in one end forming a Well for Wax'or similar lubricant and having a countersink about the opening of the Well for accommodating therein a plate-like closure, a fiat, plate-like closure locked against movement in said countersink by' Wood fibers overhanging the outer periph eral edge of the closure, the Wood fibers at the edge of and in the plane or" the closure being under compression, thev closure having a hole therethrough of less cross areathan rt'ha't of the Well and leading into the Well,

substantially as set forth and described.

' 4 v SANFORD S. VAUGHAN.

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