Hinge pintle removing tool

Claim 1

For use by carpenters, carpet layers, homeowners and others, a handtool capable of being held by the fingers of one hand and expressly designed and adapted to enable the user to use a carpenters hammer in connection therewith in a manner to initially dislodge, loosen and free a headed hinge pintle and to drive out and remove said pintle from aligned knuckles in a door hinge or the like, said tool comprising an elongated rigid punchtype shank having upper and lower ends, said upper end having an integral one-piece multipurpose head, said head being substantially rectangular in plan and provided with a plurality of coplanar oriented marginal edges, namely a first edge provided with an integral outstanding wedge-shaped blade having a leading featheredged tip which can be forcibly wedge into a given prying position between the headed end of the pintle and an adjacent hinge knuckle, a second edge complemental to and diametrically opposite said first edge and said wedge-shaped blade and being flat-surfaced and provided with an anvillike impact receiving surface by way of which said wedge-shaped blade can be driven by a hammer in a predetermined manner, a third marginal edge situated between said first and second edges and centrally bifurcated to provide a fork, said fork embodying a crotch for reception and retention of said pintle and a pair of like wedgeshape fingers which are adapted to straddle the pintle when being used, said head also having a fourth marginal edge and being flat-faced and of a dimension to provide an anvillike impact surface likewise capable of receiving intermittent blows from said hammer, the lower end of said shank being flat and fashioned into and providing a selectively usable blow receiving impact surface.