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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..
TEMPLE B. OFFER, OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS.
PIPE-TONGS SUPPORT.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 3, 1915.
Application filed July 11, 1914. Serial No. 850,314.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, TEMPLE B. HOFFER, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Wichita Falls, in the county of Wichita
5 and State of Texas, have invented certain
new and useful Improvements in Pipe-
Tongs Supports, of which the following is a
specification.
My invention relates to a new and useful
10 improvement in pipe tongs supports, and its
object is to provide a pipe tongs support
that will permit a pipe tongs to be so
balanced that it will tend to maintain itself
in a horizontal position, this being the posi-
15 tion in which its use is required.
A further object of the invention is to
provide a device of the character described,
that will be strong, durable, simple and effi-
cient and comparatively easy to construct.
20 With these and various other objects in
view, the invention has relation to certain
novel features of the construction and use,
an example of which is described in the fol-
lowing specification and illustrated in the
25 accompanying drawing.
A perspective view of my supporting de-
vice engaging and maintaining a pipe tongs
in its working position is shown in the draw-
ing, and reference characters are applied to
30 the various parts of the invention.
The numeral 1 denotes an elongated tongs
handle which has pivoted upon one of its
extremities a member 2 having a serrated
pipe-engaging face. Adjacent to the same
35 end of the handle 1, there is pivotally en-
gaged with said handle a pipe-engaging
hook 3, its pivot pin 4 being parallel to the
pivot pin 5 of the member 2, both of said
pivot pins being vertical when the tongs is
40 supported in its working position. An
elongated vertical eye-screw 6 has its thread-
ed lower end engaging in the handle 1, and
the eve of said screw receives the end of a
horizontally projecting rod 7, formed in-
45 tegrally with a vertical rod 8, screw-threaded
at its lower end in the hook 3. Upon the rod
7 a set collar 9 is mounted and like any set
collar it may be disposed in a rigid relation
with the rod 7 in various positions there-
50 upon. .A hook 11 projects rigidly upward
from the collar 9 and is engaged by the
lower end of. a rope 12 hung from any suit-
able support (usually some portion of thederrick used in well drilling). When the
pipe tongs is supported in this manner and 55
the collar 9 is properly disposed upon the
rod 7, the pipe tongs will be so balanced that
it will tend to maintain the horizontal posi-
tion in which it is to be used. My invention
is particularly desirable for use in conjunc- 60
tion with ordinary well drilling outfits.
The invention is presented as including
all such modifications and changes as prop-
erly come within the scope of the following
claims: 65
What I claim is:
1. In a device of the character described,
the combination with a pipe tongs, of a pair
of spaced vertical members extending rigidly
upward from the tongs and arranged in a 70
substantially equidistant relation to the cen-
ter of gravity of the tongs, a horizontal
member establishing connection between the
upper ends of the vertical members, and a
flexible vertically extending member at- 75
tacked to the horizontal member to support
the tongs and adjustable between the ends
of the horizontal member.
2. In a. device of the character described,
the combination with a pipe tongs compris- 80
ing handle and hook members, of an eye-
bolt rigidly upstanding from the handle
thereof, a vertical member rigidly upstand-
ing from the hook of the tongs, a horizontal
member integral at one end with said ver- 85
tical member and having its other end in-
serted in the eye of the eye-bolt, a set collar
adjustable upon the horizontal member, and
a flexible vertical member attached to the
set collar, supporting the tongs. 90
3. In a device of the character described,
the combination with a horizontally dis-
posed pipe tongs, of a horizontal member
spaced above the tongs, said member con-
nected to the tongs and supporting the same, 95
a set collar adjustable upon the horizontal
member, and a flexible vertical member at-
tached at its lower end to the set collar.
In testimony whereof I have signed my
name to this specification in the presence of 10.0
two subscribing witnesses.
TEMPLE B. HOFFER.
Witnesses:
JOHN BONNER,
O. M. PIERCE.Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the " Commissioner of Patentsi
Washington, D. C."1,148,679.
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Hoffer, Temple B. Pipe Tongs Support., patent, August 3, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859050/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.