https://www.datamp.org/ Recently added patents en-us https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85699&pn=185,902,904 Improvements in Screw Wrenches or Spanners, (etc.) Patentee: James Ferrabee - Stroud, Gloucestershire GB Granted:1860-06-19
Manufactured by James Ferrabee & Co. - Stroud, Gloucestershire GB

The patent describes several alternatives for using a combination of adjusting worm and sliding wedge to hold adjustment of a movable wrench jaw, etc. FERRABEE'S PATENT WEDGE SPANNER is noted in a list of exhibits at an 1862 "International Exhibition." No extant examples are known. Note: Early British 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, ESPACENET, etc. represents the year of registration and the patent #, with "leading zeros" interposed to make the number total nine digits. This patent is #2,904 of the year 1859.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85690&pn=191,327,540 Improvements in and relating to Pliers Patentees: Henry George Wernimont - Chicago IL , William Rauen - Chicago IL U.S.A. Granted:1914-07-23

British patent corresponding to U.S. patent 1,079,997. The British patent names Wernimont and William Rauen. For manufacturing history, see 1,079,997.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=24887&pn=1,079,997 Combination-Tool Patentee: Henry G. Wernimont - Washington DC Granted:1913-12-02
Manufactured by Utilitool Company - Chicago IL

The tool combines jaw segments with two different jaw styles with handles that can be rotated so that either pair of jaws can be used. The handle ends can be formed as conventional screwdriver and tack claw. Versions of the patent were granted in several countries. British patent 27,540 of 1913 (GB-191327540) granted to Wernimont and William Rauen provides some insight into early production, with Wernimont and Rauen forming the Wernimont-Rauen Co. at Chicago. Some marketed as UTILITOOL from Jefferson, WI or Chicago (Utilitool showed a Chicago address in the early 1920s) -- some produced by Utility Tool Company of Chicago. Improved by patent no. 1,514,488, which adds supplemental supporting structure to the connection between the jaw and handle pieces.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85689&pn=1,894,034 Screw Head Patentee: Joseph F. Fieg - La Grange, Cook County, IL Granted:1933-01-10
Assigned to United Screw & Bolt Corp. - Chicago, Cook County IL

This patent is for Clutch Head screws that were used on General Motors vehicles from the 1940's to the 1960's. Abstract: This invention relates to screws such as wood screws, machine screws, or the like and its purpose is to provide a novel head for a screw whereby the screw may be more readily and securely driven into place equally well with a hand or power driven screw driver or wrench. As manufactured today screws adapted to be driven with a screw driver are provided with a central slot to receive the end of the screw driver. The use of slotted head screws requires that the axes of the screw and the screwdriver must be substantially coincident with the 16 driving faces of the screw driver blade substantially in line with slot to admit proper locating of the screw driver blade in the screw slot. To properly locate a screw driver in the screw slot sometimes proves to be not only a very annoying but also a costly operation; especially if screw head is in an inverted position or in a position otherwise difficult of access. In slotted heads the tendency of the 26screw driver is to work out of the slot due to the wedging action of the tapered sides of the screw driver against the side walls of the slot. This is particularly true of round head screws. It is further difficult to retain a screw driver within the slot after being located therein since the screw driver not only tends to work outwardly in a direction parallel to the axis of the screw but also laterally in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the screw. Failure to locate, and failure to 36 keep blade in proper engagement frequently results in badly distorted slots which are thereby made useless, or at least far less effective for further use, even with a well- proportioned, well-made screw driver, and not infrequently presents a serious safety hazard. Claim: A screw comprising a threaded shank and a head thereon, said head having recesses therein surrounded by a wall, said recesses being of substantial and uniform depth and having a pair of tapered teeth therebetween extending from diametrically opposite sides of the head toward the center there-of, the angle between the side walls of the teeth being ninety degrees.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=65920&pn=1,187,895 Photographic Roll Holder Patentee: William F. Folmer - Rochester, Monroe County NY Granted:1916-06-20
Manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. - Rochester, Monroe County NY
Assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. - Rochester, Monroe County NY

Abstract: My present invention relates to photography and more particularly to photographic roll holders of the kind adapted to be detachably held in position against a camera back to, spread the film in the focal plane of the camera and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and convenient roll holder that will be light and compact and offer certain conveniences in its arrangements and mode of operation. Claim: In a photographic roll holder, the corn. bination with a casing and a film supporting board therein removable through the back of the casing, of a body member fixed centrally to the rear of the film supporting board and formed to constitute a handle thereof or and film spool supports at either side of the body member.
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