Soft nose hammer and manufacture thereof
OwnerAlva E. Stoneburnerinventor
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Abstract
A soft head hammer made by splaying or radially spreading an end of a length of water pipe previously given a plurality of diametrically opposed endwise cuts, and thereafter molding the head of the hammer constituted of a relatively soft and lower melting point material about and into such end of the pipe so as to intimately interlock therewith to oppose separation from the pipe which constitutes the handle.
Claims7
The method of making a hammer comprising the steps of providing a plurality of lengthwise slits in one end of a tubular member, splaying the slitted end of the tubular member by forcing a tapered tool into said slitted end of the member, removing the tool, providing a mold establishing the boundaries of a hammer head configuration, pouring a molten hammer head material into the mole while holding the tubular member with the splayed end lowermost and within the mold in spaced relation to the boundaries of the latter in an arrangement such that the poured material surrounds the splayed end of the tubular member and rises within the latter above the slits therein, said material having a lower melting point than that of the tubular member, and removing the mold from the tubular member and the hammer head material after the latter has cooled sufficiently to harden.
In a hammer of the type including a metallic handle having a head mounted on one end portion thereof that is of a relatively soft and deformable material, an improved means for securing the head to the handle comprising the handle being tubular and having one end portion thereof slitted lengthwise and flared outwardly at its extremities, said one end portion of the handle being embedded entirely within and spaced from the external surface of the hammer head, said material of the hammer head extending as a continuous mass about said one end portion of the tubular member in uninterrupted contact with all interior and exterior surfaces of said one end portion of the tubular member, whereby head material within and without coacts to interlock with the configuration of said one end of the tubular member to oppose any relative movement of the hammer head on the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.