Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: rusty on January 17, 2012, 08:58:05 PM
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Here's a strange patent.
When is a wrench not a wrench?
Why..when it's a bracket!
Do you suppose this fellow was a wrench salesman?
PS: Look carefully...how do you assemble the head into the sleeve?
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Figure 2 shows it articulated, so that would be easy enough, but the other two views don't look right. Unless the body of the wrench is two-piece or a folded over steel piece.
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Figure 1 shows a line along the back, which appears to be where the edges are folded over. It appears that figure 2 is a slightly different version of the tool.
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A wrench verges on non-wrench status when it's application is other than on a threaded nut or nipple, or a threaded screw or bolt. That is my belief, narrow as it is. The drawing demonstrates the similarity of a clamp to a wrench.
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about two years ago I got one of those in an auction box . I thought the previous owner did a lousy welding job and threw it in the metal trash. bob w.