17,582. Beatts, C. Aug. 31. Cimbination tools. - An entrenching and pioneering tool has a spade,shaped to act as a pick or axe, with a hinged hollow shaft which contains a picketing-peg or other article, and the hinged portion of which acts a s a wire cutter. A spade blade 10 is pointed to act as a pick, and has wings 12 sharpened for use as an axe. The spade handle or shaft 13 is of metal tubing, and has a joint consisting of a metal link 14 pivoted to tongues 15, 16. This link is of such a length that the two sections when folded can lie side by side as in Fig. 4. The various members are kept in position by a sleeve 17 forming a bayonet-joint with a pin 21 and abutting against a stop 20. A cross-handle 23 may be fixed to the shaft or may be detachable and have fixed to it a picketing-peg which can be inserted into the hollow shaft and held by a spring catch. The link 14 and the lower portion of the shaft may be used as a wire cutter by forming recesses 24, 25 and holding the link 14 by the sleeve 17 as in Fig. 6. Specifications No. 223, A.D. 1880, No. 1913, A.D. 1887, No. 7961, A.D. 1895, No. 18,188, A.D. 1897, and No. 3461, A.D. 1903, are referred to.
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