US2295670A - Fire bomb grapple - Google Patents

Description

Sept. 15; 1942.

Filed May 25, 1942 I a z C. Malone IN VEN TOR.

Patented Sept. 15, 1942 Cornelius Maloney, Lewiston, Maine, assignor to R. I. Mitchell, Inc., Auburn, Maine Application May 25, 1942, Serial No. 444,417

2 Claims.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple means whereby a fire bomb may be scooped up, held, and cast or carried to a place where there is no danger of conflagration, the operator being adequately protected against the heat of the bomb, and the manipulation of the device being simple.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details or construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of What is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 shows in side elevation, a fire bomb grapple constructed in accordance with the in vention, and

Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof, parts being broken away in both figures.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a handle I, which may be of any desired length. The forward end surface of the handle I has an upward and backward slant.

The forward end surface of the handle I abuts against the rear surface of a sheet metal body 3, midway between the ends of the body, the body being held in place by any suitable securing means 4. At its lower edge, the body 3 is provided with an obtusely disposed wing II. At places spaced a little way from the upper edge of the body 3, it is provided with openings 5.

On its upper edge, the body 3 is provided with a wing 6, the wing 6 being located at an obtuse angle to the body 3, and being forwardly presented. It will be noted that the wing 6 acts as a shield, tending to direct the heat of a grasped bomb I away from the body of the operator. In the interest of reinforcement, an angle bracket brace 8 of obtusely angular form, connects the wing IS with the handle I.

The numeral 9 marks a scraper or jaw of rectangular cross section, including a rearwardly extended upper flange III, and a downwardly extended flange II.

The forward ends of a yoke I2 are secured to the rearwardly extended flange III of the scraper 9. The openings 5 of the body 3 are large enough to receive the side arms of the yokes loosely, so that the scraper 9 can have free movement forwardly and backwardly, and an up and down movement as well. The side arms of the yolk I2 are disposed above the handle I, symmetrically with respect thereto.

A flexible element I4 is secured at its rear end to the handle I, and at its forward end to the intermediate portion or cross piece of the yoke I2, the places of attachment being marked, respectively, by the numerals I5 and I6.

In practical operation, the back end of the handle I is raised enough so that the scraper 9 slides forward by gravity. The lower edge of the flange I I is placed on the ground, and the flange and the forward edge of the wing I! are disposed on opposite sides of the bomb, I. The wing I1 and the body 3 prevent the heat of the bomb from reaching the feet or shins of the operator.

The scraper 9 is drawn backwardly, by means of the yoke I2 and the flexible element I4, and the bomb I is gripped between the flange or jaw I I and the body 3.

The bomb I can be carried or thrown to a safe place. When the flexible element I4 is slacked away, the bomb I is released, and the jaw 9 moves forwardly to released position, by gravity.

The side arms of the yoke I2 have a slight downward bend, which tends to keep the intermediate portion of the yoke out of contact with the handle I, when the jaw 9 is moved back- Wardly.

Since the jaw 9 is carried by the U-shaped yoke I2, the jaw will have no appreciable tendency to tilt lengthwise, but will move backwardly in substantial parallelism with the wing I! at the lower edge of the body 3.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A fire bomb grapple comprising a handle, a body elongated transversely of the handle and secured intermediate its ends to the handle, a forwardly presented wing at the upper edge of the body, and a forwardly presented wing at the lower edge of the body, the lower wing and the body forming a shield which protects the feet and legs of an operator against bomb heat, the upper wing having an upward and forward slant, to direct bomb heat away from the upper part of the body of an operator, a combined bomb scraper and movable jaw located in front of the body, and means movably mounted on the body and assembled with the scraper and jaw for moving the jaw toward the body.

2. A fire bomb grapple comprising a handle, a body elongated transversely of the handle and secured intermediate its ends to the handle, a forwardly-presented wing at the upper edge of the body, and a forwardly presented wing at the lower edge of the body, the wings being substantially coextensive in length with the body, and being disposed, each, at an obtuse angle to the body, the body and its wings defining a bombreceiving trough, a U-shaped yoke including side 7 arms and an intermediate portion, the interme- .7

diate portion being disposed behind the'body, the arms passing through the body iorlongi-i tudinal movement and for vertical tilting movement, a combined bomb scraper and bomb-holding jaw located in front of the body and comprising a depending flange and a rearwardly-extended flange at the upper edge of the depending flange, the side arms of the yoke being connected to the rearwardly-extended flange, and means assembled with the intermediate portion of the yoke, and extended to a remote place on the handle, for retracting the yoke, to cause scraper and jaw to deposit a bomb in the trough and then hold it there, subject to the will of an operator.

CORNELIUS MALON'EY.

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