(No Model.) T. H. PALMER. OARPENTBB’S CHISEL. _ No. 404,554. I PatentedJune 4, 1889.

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ATTOHIVEYJ, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THE'RON H. PALMER, OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA. CARPENTER’S CHISEL._

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,554, dated June 4, 1889. I Application ?led May 22, 1888.‘ Serial No. 274,724. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; 2, or it may be of a separate piece of mallea Be it known that I, THERON H. PALMER, of ble cast~ir0n or other suitable material and 40 the city and county of San Bernardino, and be joined to the blade B by screws 1) b or oth State of California, have invented a new and erwise. The shank may be secured in the. useful Improvement in Carpenters’ Chisels, handle by a simple tang or in any other de of which the following is a full, clear, and ex sired manner. The trowel-like shape of the act description. ~ > tool provides for cutting gains across a wide 45 This invention consists in a chisel or gouge surface without risk of obstruction by the ' _ for carpenters’ use which has its shank and handle, or the tool may be used as a paring handle portion bent out of line with its blade chisel or for cutting and ?tting in butts or or cutting portion and which is provided with hinges. The crooked shank O is provided at an anvil or hammer-block in rear of the blade its back, as nearly in the same plane as the to form a striking-surface when usingahani cu ttin g-blade as practicable, with aknob-like mer or mallet to force the cutting-tool up to projection S, forming a special anvil or ham its work, instead of striking on the end of mer-block to receive the blows of a hammer the handle direct, which is liable to split or bruise the handle. or mallet to force the tool up to or through its work, instead of striking upon the head 55 Reference is to be had to the accompanying or back end of the handle, as is usually done, drawings,>forming a part of this speci?cation, and which is very apt ‘to split or bruise the 20 in which similar letters of reference indicate handle. The trowel-like shape of the tool corresponding parts in all the ?gures. provides for thus using a special anvil inte Figures 1 and 2 and Figs. 3 and 4 represent gral with the shank, without interference by side and top views of a carpenter’s chisel or the handle. cutting-tool embodying my invention, subject Having thus described my invention, what to a slight difference of construction, as here inafter described. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let Although the invention is here represented ters Patent, is- - ' In a carpenter’s chisel or gouge, the for 65 as applied to a chisel, it is equally applicable ward cutting blade or portion, in combination to a gouge by simply making the cutting with the attached crooked shank constructed blade of a gouge instead of a chisel shape. to receive a handle out of line or plane with The general con?guration of the tool as said cutting blade or portion and provided Viewed from its side resembles that of a with an anvil or hammer-block in 1’681'0f the trowel, its handle A, which may be made of cutting blade orportion, substantially as and wood, being out of line or plane with the cut— for the purposes herein set forth. 35 ting-blade B, which is of steel, and the two THERQN H. PALMER. joined together by a crooked shank O. This Witnesses: shank C may either be of one and the same _ JAMES E. MACK, piece as the blade B, as shown in Figs. 1 and WALTER D. WAGNER.