US278680A - Pinchers - Google Patents

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E. & J. BROTHERS.

PINGHERS.

No. 278,680. Patented June 5,1883.

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NIT D STATES ELI BROTHERS AND J S PH BROTHERS, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PINCHERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,680, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed January 1883. (No model.)

To alllvhom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ELI BEoTHEHs and JosErH BROTHERS, of Lynn, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pinchers, of which the following is a description sufiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view representing the pinchers closed, and showing the cutting-nippers and channel-openers; and Fig. 2, a view representing the opposite side of the pinchers to that shown in Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

Our invention relates more especially to that class of pinchers used by shoe-makers in lasting boots and shoes and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more desirable and effective article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use. l

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following e planation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, A B represent the handles; 0 D, the jaws E, the hammer, and H the poll.

The handle A and jaw D and the handle B and jaw G are respectively integral, and j ointed in the usual manner at K. The poll H is mag netized'to attract and hold the tacks or nails used in lasting, and is provided with a semicircular lndentation, X, in its rear portion,

.over the joint K, as shown.

A pair of cutting-jaws, M, are disposed in the throat of the pinchers, near the joint K, a

groove or indentation, on, being formed in each' of the jaws O D, immediately opposite the nippers, to form a discharge-orifice for the escape of nails, wire, 850., out off by the nippers.

Near the outer or free end of the handle A i there is a laterally-projecting conical projection, (I, designed for raising the channel-flap and opening the channel in the soles of boots and shoes. This operation is usually performed by means of a special tool for that purpose, the use of which necessitates the laying down of the lasting-pinchers by the workman. In our improved pinchers this objection is obviated, the flap of the channel being readily raised without laying down the tool.

In lasting boots and shoes the lasting-tacks are usually held in the mouth of the workman, and are taken from the month by the hand, started into the sole or overlapping upper, and driven home by the hammer of the pinchers. This operation is not a convenient one to perform without laying down the pinchers, and

ize the poll H of our improved pinchers, sothat when the same is presented to the head of a tack protruded from the mouth of the workman the tack will adhere to the poll, and may be conveniently driven intothe shoe in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description.

It also sometimes occiu-s, in lasting, that a iently grasped by the jaws O D. To provide for this is the object of the curved indentation X, the poll H being placed fiat on the shoe, adjoining the tack, and pushed under the head of the same in such a manner as to bring the .body of the tack into said indentation, after which it may be readily drawn by lifting the handles A B. The cutting jaws or nippers M are also designed more especially for cutting off the lasting-tacks close to the work, as occasion may require. c

From the foregoing it will be seen that our improved pinchers embody in a convenient and co-operative form a pinchers proper, ordinary pinchers-hammer, magnetic tack-hammer, tack-puller, cutting-nippers, and channel;opener.

Having thus explained our invention, what we claim is 1. A lasting-pinchers the jaws of which are provided with the laterally-proj ecting cuttingblades M, and with transverse recesses m, ex-

to obviate its principal objections we magnet tack has to be drawn which cannot be conventending from said blades to the opposite side adap ted to receive and hold the Eat tacks, subof the pinehers, forming a receptacle for the stantiallyas described.

cut off tacks, substantially as described.

2. A lasting-pinehers having two jaws, a 5 hammer, and a poll, said jaws being provided ELI BROTHERS. JOSEPH BROTHERS.

with laterally-projecting cutting-bladea and WVitnesses i with transverse recesses m m, extending from A. 13. FLONDERs, said blades to the opposite side of the jaws, V. F. GRAY;

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