US88621A - Improvement in wrench and pincers - Google Patents

Description

.tant @met MWh-M- EDWIN FROGGATT, 0F' CENTRAL CITY, COLORAD() TERRITORY.

' Letters Patent No. 88,621, dated April 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN WRENCH AND PINCERS.

The Schedule referred bodin these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it mag/.concern Be it known that I, EDWIN FROGGATT, of Central Gity,in the Territory of Colorado, have invented a new and improved Combination-Tool; and I do hereby deelare that the following is a lll, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 represents a sideview, partly in section, of my combined tool.

vFigure 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

parts. 1

This invention relates to a new tool, which is to be used by blacksmiths and mechanics for various pur-- poses, and in which the most important tools, to wit,

the hammer, screw-driver, wrench, and pincers, are

combined in such manner that either can be used with great-facility.

A, in the drawing, represents the shank of my improved tool.

It is'made of malleable iron, or other suitable ma- Patentteiial, and has, on its upper end, formed a head,,'pro jeeting from both sides, as shown.

One end of' this head serves as a hammer, the other one, as the upper jaw of a Wrench.

The 'upper half of the'shank A is, under the hammer-head a, made flat,A and is slotted, as shown.

is the lower jaw of the wrench. as to straddle the slotted upper part of the shank, and is, by means of a tube, b, connected with a lower guidearm, c, which also straddles the shank, as shown.

Screws d al are iitted through the forked ends of the parts B c, and through the slot of the shank.

Gis a screw, for working the lower jaw. .It rests on a step, e, formed on the shank, and ftsinto the arm c and tube b, as shown. By turning it, the lower ,jaw will be raised or lowered, at will.

It is forked, so`

The screw (l and the lower arm o serve to steady the motion ofthe jaw, and make'the wrench ei'ective. v

The other arm, E, of the pincers is, by a pin, f, pivoted to A, and can, by a spring-catch, g, be fastened to the step e, when the pincers are not to be used. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding his a' spring, for forcing the jaws of the pincers apart.

. Another form of wrench may be arranged in the.

saine combination with equal effect, and the screwdriver can be omitted, if desired.

The hammer is strengthened by an additional brace, o, as shown, which connects its head with the shank.

The nippers may have steel-faced points, that may be removable, if desired.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters l. The combination-tool, consisting of the wrench, hammer', and pineers, with or without the screw-driver, all operating and arranged substantially as specified.

2. Connecting the movable jaw B of a wrench, by means of a bar or tube, b, with a parallel arm, c, the jaw and arm being bii'urcated, so as to straddle the slotted shank A, through which screws lare tted into the parts B c, substantially as hereinshown and described, for the purpose speciiied.

` EDWIN FEOGrGrATl.

Witnesses:

HARVEY M. BURRELL, F. Senonnrnnn.

Images