Sprung "ratchet" wrench

[Navaja]

   Hello everybody,

      My first post, I know I should have introduced my self elsewhere but thought I'd dive right in, hope that's OK 

     I'm a Brit living in Spain & have been gathering/hording/collecting tools for many years in the UK & Spain, at first I wouldn't have known that I was collecting but now I realize..... ahem..... My name is Navaja & I'm a tool collector......there.... I know I'm among people who understand here!

    Anyway, I tend to like unusual stuff, old adjustable wrenches through to woodworking stuff but very rarely do I see something I've never seen before, well it happened yesterday-





     Difficult to read the markings but I think it reads  "PATENT fojore (or fojone) BREVETE"  & assume it's French.
    I've never seen a wrench like this before, anyone else?   Made to grip in one direction & slip in the other, a kind of spring "ratchet" wrench, I think it's so cool but can see why it maybe didn't catch on!

   

   

[kwoswalt99]

Never seen anything like that before.

[Northwoods]

Never seen anything like that before.

I have.  Here.  Some months ago.  But it is still cooooool!

[p_toad]

Nope...no help here...sorry...BUT....WELCOME! 

Happy to see you here...(now, show more!)   

[EVILDR235]

Welcome to Tool Talk.  I have seem one of those before, but i can't remember where.

EvilDr235           

[mvwcnews]

At least three notices in the Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter ( Sept. 2012, pg 1 ; Dec. 2015 pg. 15 & Sept. 2016 pg. 13 )  Also U.S. patent no. 1,0151,562  & British patent 27092 of 1911  (GB-191127092 ) are in DATAMP -- don't have German or French patent numbers although the idea came from the Netherlands.
P.S. should have added the marking is PATENT  POIGNE  BREVETE and they appear to have been made in France -- production likely halted by WWI.

[turnnut]

yes, the patentees were from the Netherlands that received the U.S. patent # 1,051,562

[Navaja]

   Thank you very much for the replies, it's probably a little older than I expected.

   Another couple of pics.

    The left end has been stressed at some point & isn't as tightly bound & neat as the other.



    It's marked both sides the same.



    Thanks again.