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United States Patent Office.
JOSEPH A. PERLEY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND WILLIAM H. PERLEY, OF SAME PLACE.
Letters Patent No. 97,802, dated November 14, 1869.
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IMPROVEMENT IN SPOKE-SHAVE.
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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.
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To all persons to whom these presents may come:
Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. PERLEY, of Lynn, of the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention, having reference to Spoke and Heel-Shaves; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which —
Figure 1 is a top view,
Figure 2 a bottom view, and
Figure 3, a transverse section of a heel-shave, as provided with my invention, which consists in the combination and arrangement of a double-edged or duplex knife, two adjustable throat-pieces, and the two handles, the whole being substantially as hereinafter explained, and also as exhibited in the said drawings.
In such drawings —
A A denotes the two handles of the implement.
The duplex knife, shown at B, has two cutting-edges, arranged as shown at b b, it being fastened, by means of screws c c, to the handles A A, so as to form with them a stock.
Each of these handles is shaped or provided with inclined beds d d at its inner part, to receive and give support to the next adjacent ends or parts of two movable bars or throat-pieces, C C, which are fastened to the handles by clamp-screws e e e e, that screw into the throat-pieces, and pass through slots f f f f, made in the handles transversely thereof.
With the double-edged knife, and the handles and two throat-pieces constructed and combined or arranged as represented, one of the knife-edges, with its throat-piece, may be adjusted to make a “fine cut,” and the other knife-edge and throat-piece may be arranged to make a coarser or coarse cut, the same admitting of the implement being used both for paring down, or rough cutting and for finishing a heel, a work usually accomplished heretofore by two separate shaves or implements.
I claim the combination of the two handles, the double-edged knife, and the two throat-pieces, substantially in manner as specified.
JOSEPH A. PERLEY.
Witnesses:
R. H. EDDY,
S. N. PIPER.
