Beautiful little tool.

[jimi43]

Along with the Norris clamp today...I found this...

As you can see...if you flip it...the jaws close!

Not difficult to research with the information on the handle...

PATENT HERE

...and the maker's mark...

...but again I would appreciate some more information.

Cheers

Jim

 

[AndyT]

Nice find again Jim, and I'd sooner have one of those than one of these

- sold in their thousands to people who wanted to buy a man a present, then left in a box until the batteries start to dribble...

As for further information, well, how much do you want? You already know what it looks like, who invented it and roughly when it was made!

I do know that there are special societies which you may now be eligible to join - though you may need to travel a bit for the meetings. I'm thinking of the Missouri Valley Wrench Club with its "wrench of the month" page - I'm sure the members are all perfectly normal!

 

[Harbo]

My late uncle had a wrench obsession!
He collected them from car boots and mounted them on wooden plaques.
Filled their conservatory with them so they could no longer use it for its true purpose.
You have been warned!

Rod

 

[AndyT]

My late uncle had a wrench obsession!
He collected them from car boots and mounted them on wooden plaques.
Filled their conservatory with them so they could no longer use it for its true purpose.
You have been warned!

Rod

Is this him?

 

[yetloh]

Nice though it is, Jim, I was taught by my engineer father that no self respecting engineer would ever use an adjustable spanner on a nut. This was on the basis that there will always be some slack in the mechanism which is ultimately bad for the corners of nuts and bolt heads. He didn't have one and neither have I! Mind you, plumbers use them all the time but then plumbers aren't engineers.

Jim

 

[jimi43]

My late uncle had a wrench obsession!
He collected them from car boots and mounted them on wooden plaques.
Filled their conservatory with them so they could no longer use it for its true purpose.
You have been warned!

Rod

Is this him?

That is VERY worrying...now all is needed is to find a nut to use them on...um...something like that!! :mrgreen:

Jim

 

[Scouse]

'Tis an interesting thing, and with enough info cast into it to allow a bit of intellectual digging!

I can't say wrenches are a slope down which I have traveled beyond a couple of the marvelously named King Dick wrenches, but I am always amazed by the number of different ways mankind can come up with to undo a simple nut. Having said that, I am partial to the odd socket set...

This Hurley Patent ratchet from 1921 falls into the same category!

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Jimi - think positively about the new slope - you don't want to suffer from that terrible affliction; loose nuts.

Yetloh - the older adjustables (and cheap modern ones) were not up to much, so your father was absolutely right. However, modern 'shifter' spanners are much better engineered, and especially for larger sized fasteners, having a 15" or 18" adjustable saves lugging around sets of AF, Whitworth and Metric spanners. Still not so clever on the smaller sizes, though.

Scouse - my Dad had a set of Britool hexagon-drive sockets, but his must have been late '50s vintage. You're right - man has excelled himself in inventing different ways to tighten his nuts.

 

[AndyT]

Scouse - my Dad had a set of Britool hexagon-drive sockets, but his must have been late '50s vintage.

- but I've got them now!

Not that I collect these things you understand, it's just that these were looking for a good home, and are clearly a decent bit of kit, and if I ever had to do any car maintenance ever again I'd use them ... except that they wouldn't fit... Oh well, never mind!

 

[Wildman]

nearly all of my old machinery is imperial I hardly ever use metric sockets, or spanners always a good home here for old imperial stuff.