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Title: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: international3414 on October 30, 2015, 07:57:47 PM

found this hanging on a wall,after several others passed it off as just another S...different handle and odd name..at lease for me.
i could find nothing other than one that sold on worthpoint..
its a 10' made in newark,NJ
looks like U S & M CO


(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll153/richpoor1/013b9ca7-805f-4b77-888c-88cf1b7ce6c1.jpg)

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: stanley62 on October 31, 2015, 11:00:42 AM

United Shoe and Machine company.

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: leg17 on October 31, 2015, 12:14:03 PM

Quote from: stanley62 on October 31, 2015, 11:00:42 AM

United Shoe and Machine company.

Were they in Newark NJ?

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: wvtools on October 31, 2015, 12:47:18 PM

EAIA lists it as United Shoe Machinery Co. in Boston, MA.  All of their wrenches I have seen are marked USMC, and the ones I have seen are DOE or SOE.  I think this company is a different one.

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: international3414 on October 31, 2015, 05:06:58 PM

i did start looking for newark,NJ...but only found boston....maybe usmc started in nj....would this wrench be a casting,opposed to forged?

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: leg17 on October 31, 2015, 08:30:09 PM

Quote from: international3414 on October 31, 2015, 05:06:58 PM

...would this wrench be a casting,opposed to forged?

Look at the parting line and let us know the answer.

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: mvwcnews on November 01, 2015, 12:19:37 AM

I've seen a couple of these U.S.M. ..adjustable "S" wrenches -- the ones I've seen were drop forged.  United Shoe Machinery was formed by merging all the shoe manufacture related machinery makers & eventually held a monopoly.  Although headquartered in Boston, the company had operations in several locations & also was incorporated in New Jersey.   I have not been able to verify that they owned a tool making operation in Newark, but they certainly were big enough to have done so.

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: Twertsy on November 02, 2015, 06:54:19 AM

If you pull up the company in DATAMP, the patents for "tool" (grinder) related items list the address in Paterson, NJ.

Title: Re: help id S shape adjustable
Post by: international3414 on November 03, 2015, 05:20:04 PM

ok thanks...i have been watching some video on drop forging...not a fun job