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US 4,290,583 AGranted
Claw hammer with improved fulcrum
OwnerMichael Lombardiinventor
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Abstract
A claw hammer is provided with a wedge-shaped portion on the contact surface between the anvil portion and the clawed portion in order to enable the user thereof to remove nails from a surface with a minimum of effort and a reduced swing of the handle.
Claims5
A claw hammer comprising, in combination:
- (a) an elongated handle having a longitudinal axis and adapted to receive a hammer head on one end thereof;
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- (b) a hammer head having an opening provided therein adapted to receive and cooperate with said handle retaining said handle therein, said hammer being provided with a clawed portion extending forward of said handle longitudinal axis at an angle of between 0.degree. and 30.degree. from the contact surface thereof and an anvil portion extending rearward of said handle longitudinal axis, the contact surface of said hammer head between said clawed portion and said anvil portion being provided with an outwardly wedge-shaped extending portion providing a fulcrum point proximate the longitudinal axis of said handle when said clawed portion is utilized for extracting nails from a surface, the rise of said wedge-shaped extending portion being generally tangent with the surface of said clawed portion for providing a generally flat surface enabling said claw hammer to stand head down on a flat surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.