GB Patent: GB-189,818,451
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| Improvements in Adjustable Spanners
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Patentee:
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| John Edward Meredith (exact or similar names) - Birmingham, Warwick England |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Aug. 27, 1898 |
| Granted: |
Jul. 15, 1899 |
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Patent Pictures:
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J.E. Meredith -abstract of GB189818451 edited from ESPACENET |
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Description: |
| A swinging loop (which may be opened & then closed with a pin) combined with a curved portion of a "lever" form a self-adjusting "ring spanner" for hexagonal nuts. Meredith gives "DYNAMO WORKS" at Birmingham as his address in one portion of his patent application.
Corresponding Canadian CA-62,666 and U.S. 651,574 patents were issued in 1899. Corresponding German patent DE-106548 was granted with effective date Nov. 10, 1898.
Photos of representative examples are shown in the DATAMP entry for 651,574.
Note: Early English patents (pre 1916) were numbered by the year and started at patent #1 at the start of each year in January. The patent # used in DATAMP represents the year of registration and the patent #. This patent is #18,451 of the year 1898. |
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