Old Cornwell 1/2" ratchet with no number. Pat. Applied For. Anyone know what the logo is and model of ratchet.

 Thats Chicago Mfg.& Distributing Co. logo. See Alloy Artifacts

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We had this discussion on the old board. I have been trying to identify this logo for years and could never find any connection to a Chicago Hardware forging company. I did find a catalog from a forging company called Cleveland Hardware that shows then logo on the cover (see photo below).

Cleveland Hardware & Forging Co. Inc. was granted a trademark for the logo.

"In 1957, H. K. Porter, a Pittsburgh-based machine tool and heavy equipment builder, purchased Cleveland Hardware and ran it as their Cleveland division until the late 1960s." H. K. Porter is listed as the owner of the trademark by some sources.

One thing keeps me from being 100 percent sure that it is Cleveland Hardware is that all the information I can find classifies them as a forging company and the logo can be found on numerous cast wrenches. They started in the 1870's and might have done castings then.

@Mac53, I was going to go with Montreal Canadiens.....

Does anybody know how it is tied to Cornwell and when.

There are 2 other ratchets on alloy artifacts with forge codes on them, both different, and different from the [CH] mark. So my assumption would be that Cornwell was contracting out ratchet production in the early days.

Your ratchet does not have a hole in the handle, so it's not a #55 and it's not one of the SR series.

Does your ratchet click when turned?

As for age, weakly, the contract stuff seems to be in the 20's-30's, but you may have an unknown Cornwell ratchet that predates the #55.....
[You also have the only other ratchet I have seen with the CH forgemark besides the CM&D ones]

There is no click when turning.

Quote from: Mac53 on April 13, 2012, 10:08:18 AM
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I think Bus is right. It's a match to the Cleveland Hardware logo.

One thing I noticed and I don't know if it means anything. The Cleveland logo has the C looped over and under the H. The logo on the ratchet has no looping.

A logo that small might be difficult to get that kind of detail.

It is also in a square, not a circle...

I have been trying to find an example of the logo before 1933 (CH was a different company, CH&F was formed from the branckrupt assets, the logo may have changed slightly when that happened...)