Lever bar adapted for performing multiple functions
AssigneePalbar, Inc.
InventorArthur Schellas
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Abstract
An improved, versatile, lever bar which may be used as a crowbar, prybar, sledge hammer, pickaxe, wedge, etc. The lever bar has a long handle with a thick base plate chamfered at one end and secured perpendicular to the axis of the handle at one end thereof. A thick foot plate has a sharp end from which diverge edges defining an acute angle for entering under or behind boards to be pried. A massive, flat, triangular or trapezoidal anvil plate is secured to the base plate and handle. The base plate and anvil plate can serve as hammer heads while the tool is used as sledge hammer. The base plate and foot plate can serve as splitting wedges and as heads of a pickaxe.
Claims13
An improved lever bar adapted for performing multiple functions, comprising:
- a relatively long, rigid handle bar having a straight longitudinal axis;
- a generally rectangular, rigid, flat base plate having opposite parallel sides, one of said sides being secured by a rigid joint to one end of said bar in a plane perpendicular to said longitudinal axis thereof, said plate having spaced parallel lateral edges perpendicular to said parallel sides;
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- a thick flat foot plate having two long edges diverging from a sharp point to define an acute angle therebetween, said foot plate having a wide end opposite from said point said wide end being secured by another rigid joint to one side of said handle and to said one side of said base plate, said foot plate being disposed in an axial plane of said bar perpendicular to said base plate;
- whereby said sharp point of said foot plate may be inserted behind a board to be pried away from spaced beams with said base plate resting on said beams and serving as a fulcrum while said handle serves as a lever.
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