GB Patent: 185,401,872 - Improvements in boring instruments known as augers, bits, or gimlets


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GB Patent: GB-185,401,872

Improvements in boring instruments known as augers, bits, or gimlets

Patentees:

Ransom Cook (exact or similar names) - Saratoga Springs, NY

John Gedge (exact or similar names) - London, England

USPTO Classifications:

Tool Categories:

woodworking tools : hand drills : drill bits : auger bits

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Aug. 26, 1854

Patent Pictures:

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Description:

This is the British equivalent of US patent 8,162. John Gedge was the British patentee who was really just an agent for the inventor, Ransom Cook. This style of auger bit is known as a Cook's patent bit in the US and as a Gedge's patent (or Gedge's pattern) bits in the UK.