US105826A - Improvement in weather-board scribe - Google Patents

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` Letters Patent No.`IO5,826,-Adated July/26,1870.

` IMPROVEMENT IN` WEATHER-BOARD SCRIBE.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letter Patent:` and making part of the same URIAHVFARIS, of Red Rock township, in the county of Marion and `in the State of Iowa, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Spring Weather-board Scribe; and do hereby declare that the following is a-full, clear, and exact description thereofreference being had- -to` the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of Athis specification.

` The nature of our invention V(.:onsistsin the construction and arrangemcntof a spring weather-board scribe, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enableothcrs skilled inthe artto which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, wewill `now proceed to desoribeiits construction and operation, `referring to 4.the annexed drawing, in

` side a bar, a, with hook i b projecting through the slot in the plate B.l Tothis bar a the knife or scribe y D is secured'by means of a set screw,\e, which passes through a slot in the knife, whereby also the knife may be adj ustedjas desired. y Y

Ihe slide C is attached to one end` of the frame A` To all whom `it may concern: i U Be it known that we, ABRAHAM MILLER and by means of a rubber or other spring, E, and is drawn up the other end, where it is caught on a trigger, G, operated by means of the button H.

L Bypressing slightly on 'the button H the trigger G is released, causing, by the action of the spring E, the slide C, with the knife I), to move suddenly toward the other vend of the frame.

On the slide C are two springs, d d, which, if the knife or/scrbe should strike any hardsubstance while it is doing its work, will letthe knife give or yield, and still perform its work with accuracy.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire Vto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The slide C, provided with bar a, hook I1, and

.springs al d, and having the adjustable knife I) attached to itsubstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. a

2. The combination of the frame A, plate B, slide C, knife D, springvE, trigger G, andubutton I-I, all

constructedfand arranged as described, and operating substantially as and for the purposes .herein set forth.'

i In testimony that wcclai'xn the foregoing, we have `hereunto seto'ur hands this2lst day'of April, 1870.

ABRAHAM MILLER. URIAH FARIS.

. Witnesses: i

C. L. EVERT,

WrLLmM HARDIN.

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