Pattern Maker's Box Items

[lptools]

Hello, I am in the process of sorting out the tools from a Pattern Maker's Box. I will post pics of the box at a later date.  At top is a Winchester #8744 Two Speed Hand Drill, missing side handle. Next is a drawknife marked WARD CAST STEEL ( not Wards) ,with  some other symbols and lettering, I think it is a Ward & Payne. At bottom is a Sargent Parrot Head Pruning Shear (Bernard on handle). On the right is a K & E Wyteface 100' Steel Tape in the original box. All of these are firsts for me!!! Regards, Lou

[Yadda]

The Bernard's Parrot Pruner us perfect for most women's hands.  They were advertised a lot during their production. Handy item, I have a couple of them.

[lptools]

Hello, Yadda. Thanks for the info. Who was the manufacturer, Sargent & Co.? or Bernard? Regards, Lou

[mikeswrenches]

Hi Lou, Sargent would have been the manufacturer, Bernard was the inventor of all that stuff. Great tools. I'm not quite sure what a pattern maker would have used them for.
Schollhorn had his hand in this too.

Here's a good explanation at DATAMP:   http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=427220&id=15595&set=9
Mike

[lptools]

Hello, Mike. Thanks for the info!! The Pattern Maker's box came from his home, so I am guessing that it also held some of the tools that he used at home. Regards, Lou

[skipskip]

Pruners might be handy for neatly trimming small pieces of wood or dowel


Skip

[Yadda]

Pruners might be handy for neatly trimming small pieces of wood or dowel


Skip

Certainly a possibility.

[Bill Houghton]

There's always the possibility that family members, unfamiliar with the tools and faced with having to put the pruners somewhere, decided on "that box there."