US1097684A - Combination-tool. - Google Patents

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R. A. SIMONSON.

COMBINATION TOOL! APPLIOATION IILED FEB. 21, 1913.

Patented'May 26, 1914.

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ROGER A. SIMONSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1914.

Application filed February 21, 1813. Serial No. 749,867.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Boone A. Smronson, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Tllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention is in the nature of a combination tool and more specifically resides in a device adapted to serve the function of a button-hook and shoe-horn, such as shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,050,242, dated January 14th, 1913, and issued to me.

7 In the construction shown in my former patent the button-hook tends to turn upon its pivot when the device is being used for a button-hook and-my present invention is designed to provide means to prevent the collapsing of the hook when in either an open or folded position.

Another improvement over my former patent resides in making the shank of the button-hook of such length that the hook end will project beyond the body of the clevice so as to form an eye to receive a key ring and it being desirable to hold the hook end in closed position. I have therefore made the same means which holds the button-hook in open position, also hold it in closed position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the device with the body folded and the button-hook open. Fig. 2 is an edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 1 is a front view of the body in open position. Fig. 5 is a front view of the body in open position with the button-hook folded; Fig. 6 is an edge view of Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a side elevational view of the device in folded position.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 8 designates the shank portion and 9 the hook shaped end of a button-hook which parts may correspond to the parts of any ordinary button-hook, although preferably formed from flat rather than round metal. The inner end of the shank 8 is pivoted to the handle or body member, which latter also constitutes the spoon portion of a shoe-horn. The latter member in the form herein shown comprises two longitudinally tapered flat metal strips 10 and 11, the proximate edges of which are hinged together by of the two members and a hinge pintle 12 extending through said eye. The member .10, as herein shown, is provided at its narrow end with an integral U-shaped extension 13 that projects beyond the narrow end of the member 10 and constitutes a hinged socket for the shank 8 of the button-hook. It will be noted, however, that the inner end 1 1 of the shank 8 is formed with substantially parallel sides 15 and 16 which are so spaced from the pivot pin 17 upon which the shank 8 is mounted that both edges 15 and 16 lie within the outer edge of the metal strip 10. The metal strip 11 is provided with a locking member or flange 18 that is bent at substantially right angles to the body 11 with which it is formed integral so that when the members 10 and 11 are in closed position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the flange 18 will lie parallel with and adjacent to the edge 15 of the inner end of the shank 8 and when the shank 8 is in open position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the shank is thereby prevented from collapsing or being moved into closed position while the members 10 and 11 remain folded. lit is also to be noted that the member 11 is provided with an opening 19 which is larger in diameter than the hinge pin 17 and registering therewith, so that the member 11 will lie flat against one part of the U-shaped extension 13.

When the parts are in the position as shown in 1 the device may be then used as a button-hook without the shank collapsing and if it is desired to use the device as a shoe-horn the members 10 and 11 are spread into an angular position so as to form the spoon of a shoe-horn and the shank 8 constitutes the handle. When the device is in closed position as shown in Fig. 7 the flange 18 lies parallel with and' adjacent the edge 16 of the inner end of the shank 8 thereby holding the shank in closed position.

It will be noted that in Fig. 7 the hook end 9 extends beyond the two members 10 and 11, but the point of the button-hook lies between the two members, thereby providing an eye into which a key ring 20 may be snapped, or the ring may be placed over the hook end during the folding movement of the shank and before the end of the hook passes between the members 10 and 11. To

release the ring 20 it is only necessary to separate the members 10 and 11 so as to release the shank 8 whereupon by moving the shank into open position the end of the but ton-hook will be withdrawn from between the members 10 and 11 and thereby permit of ready removal of the ring.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. A combined button-hook and shoe-horn comprising two longitudinally foldable parts hinged together, a button-hook member pivoted to one of said foldable parts and a locking flange carried by the other foldable part and adapted to bear against the opposite foldable part and alternately engage opposite sides of one end of said button-hook to hold the same in either open or folded position.

2. A combined button-hook and shoe-horn comprising two longitudinally foldable parts hinged together, a flange formed integral with one of said parts, a button-hook member pivoted between said part and flange and a locking flange carried by the other foldable part and adapted to bear against the opposite foldable part and alternately engage opposite sides of one end of said button-hook to hold the same in either open or closed position.

ROGER A. SIMONSON.

lVitness'es: SADIE M; RYAN, JAMES R. OFFIELD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

7 Washington, D. C.

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