US95646A - Improved blank for ax-polls - Google Patents

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UNrTnD STATES PATENT Orrrcno WILLIAM BUNTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEO. W. JOPE, OF SAME' PLACE.

llViPROVED BLANK FOR AX POLLS.

` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,646, dated October 12, 1859.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BUNroN, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture-viz., Blanks for AX-Heads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in a new article of manufaeture-viz., a bar of iron rolled to the shape of a continuous undivided serics of blanks for ax-heads,77 the fiber ofthe metal running lengthwise of the bar and ak-head.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use nay invention, I will proceed'to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of my specification, Figure 1 is a face view of a bar of iron rolled so as to form a series of blanks for air-heads. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the saine. Fig, 3 is a face view of a blank for air-heads. Fig. et is a longitudinal section of the same cut through at line x. Fig. 5 represent-s the blank of the air-head when formed and ready for the further construction of the an.

The blanks represented in the accompanying drawings are formed by means of a pair of rolls, provided with a groove or grooves, the contour of which corresponds to the desired formy of the blank for the ait-head.

The construction of the rolls will readily be understood by the skillful roll-turner, and the manner of manipulating the iron, in passing through such rolls, I leave to the skill and judgment of those skilled in the art of rolling iron; but in the construction of the rolls and the rolling of the iron into the desired form for the blanks for aX-heads the idea of having the ber of the iron to run lengthwise of blanks must be constantly kept in View.

The advantage of forming the blanks so that the fiber of the iron will run lengthwise ofthe aX-head will be very apparent to those skilled in the manufacture of axes. Blanks thus formed can be readily bent into the forni desired, will draw out more readily under the hammer, and are not liable to crack in the eye of the ax.

` In the drawings, A represents the part which forms the poll. B represents the sides of the head, and represents the eye for the handle ofthe aX. The blanks are separated by cutting the bar as indicated by the lines y.

I wish it clearly understood that I do not claim, broadly, rolling bars into forms suitable for forming blanks for aX-heads, for such device is old, but,

Having thus described the nature and construction of my improvement, what I claim as of my invention is- As a new article of manufacture, a bar of iron rolled to the shape of a continuous undivided series of blanks for ax-heads, the fiber of the metal running lengthwise of the bar and aX- poll, as herein described.

VILLIAM BUN TON.

Witnesses:

` A. C. JOHNSTON,

JAMns J. J oHNsToN.

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