Multiple-stroke hand tool

Claim 1

IN A HAND TOOL, THE COMBINATION OF AN ELONGATED BODY PROVIDING A HANDLE PORTION AT ONE END THEREOF AND HAVING IN FIXED RELATION TO THE OTHER END THEREOF A HEAD PORTION HAVING A WORK-ENGAGING AND -FORMING PART, A RAM MOUNTED FOR SLIDING MOVEMENT IN THE BODY TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID WORK-ENGAGING AND -FORMING PART IN A DIRECTION LENGTHWISE OF THE BODY AND HAVING A WORKENGAGING AND -FORMING PART FOR COOPERATION WITH THE FIRSTMENTIONED SUCH PART, A HANDLE PIVOTED TO THE BODY, RATCHET AND CAM MEANS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED ON THE BODY IN COAXIAL AND ANGULARLY FIXED RELATION TO ONE ANOTHER, WHICH ON ANGULAR MOVEMENT FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER, DRIVES SAID RAM BY SAID CAM MEANS TO AN EXTENDED POSITION FOR COOPERATION OF SAID WORK-ENGAGING AND -FORMING PARTS, A SPRING CONNECTED TO SAID HANDLE AND TO SAID RAM ACTING TO BIAS THE RAM TO A RETRACTED POSITION AND SAID HANDLE IN ONE DIRECTION RELATIVELY POSITION AND SAID HANDLE PAWL MEANS CARRIED BY SAID HANDLE FOR COOPERATION WITH SAID RATCHET MEANS, WHEREBY RELATIVE MOTION OF SAID HANDLE AND HANDLE PORTION IN THE OTHER DIRECTION AFFECTS SAID EXTENSION OF THE RAM FOR EFFECTING AN OPERATION ON A WORKPIECE DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID WORK-ENGAGING AND -FORMING PARTS, AND PERMITS SEPARATION OF THE LAST-MENTIONED PARTS ON RETRACTION OF THE RAM.