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US 5,159,858 AGranted
Framing hammer construction
OwnerMichael J. Ganseninventor
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Abstract
A framing hammer construction in which a conventional hammer head is provided with a boss permanently secured to one side of the hammer head, this boss containing double tapered grooves for releasably holding laterally projecting nails, together with a flattened boss on the side of the hammer head opposite to the grooved boss for driving nails with sideways blows of the hammer head.
Claims1
A framing hammer, comprising
- a conventional framing hammer head having a forwardly extending hammering face and rearwardly extending curved claws for pulling nails,
- said hammer head formed with a handle receiving socket between said hammering face and said claws,
- a handle mounted in said socket to extend laterally from said hammering face and said claws,
- a boss formed integrally with said hammer head and protruding from a side of said head in overlying relation to said socket,
- said boss being formed with said first and second tapered undercut grooves, with said first groove opening toward said hammer face and said second groove opening toward said claws.
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