https://www.datamp.org/ Recently added patents en-us https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=86109&pn=3,318 Astronomical Globe Patentee: Gilbert Vale - n NY Granted:1843-10-28

Listed in A List of Patents Issued by the United States, from 1790 to 1847, pgs. 185 & 563. Abstract: In the center of the instrument is an ordinary globe (terrestrial) as represented in the drawing No. 1, which accompanies this specification. To this globe a universal meridian, having a figure a at the top representing a traveler, and a similar figure at the bottom (not shown or necessary in the drawing) representing the antipodes to a. To this meridian is attached a broad plate representing the horizon to such figure, and marked It, h, in the drawing No. 1. The outer circles of the sphere represent the great circles in the heavens, together with the Tropics, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. The stand and exterior semicircle serve to support the sphere, and to adjust it, as the semicircle slides through the support, and is fastened by a screw at s, as the instrument or sphere can be supported in various ways the manner is not essential. Claim: I claim the application of this instrument as a planetarium, by the introduction of wires representing the orbits of the planets and showing their nodes and inclinations, as explained in the specification. The instrument may be made of various materials, and mounted in a variety of forms, without affecting its essential qualities.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=86107&pn=911,154 WRENCH Patentee: Herman A. Paquette - Chicago IL Granted:1909-02-02

Quick adjust, with rack teeth that engage rack teeth on the main shank. A toggle locks the adjustment.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=56692&pn=208,046 Improvement in wire band cutters Patentee: William E. Snediker - Trenton NJ Granted:1878-09-17

The design improves Chadbourn's Band Cutter (patent no. 190,467) by adding a wire clamping spring and grooved slot on one jaw. Known examples have no visible markings. This structure would hold the cut wire so it could be safely discarded separately from the straw and grain. Early grain binders used wire bundle ties and contamination of grain and straw with bits of wire was a serious problem.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=41814&pn=910,737 Wrench Patentee: George W. Stenz - Ashland WI Granted:1909-01-26
Manufactured by Stenz Wrench Co. - Ashland WI

Victor J. Evans - patent attorney This invention relates to a wrench of the quick-adjusting type, and more particularly to a wrench having a shank provided with serrations with which a cam-actuated clamping block is adapted to engage for holding the movable jaw in set position. The invention has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction and operation of devices of this character so as to be comparatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture, of durable and substantial design, and composed of few parts. Another object of the invention is the provision of a wrench having a serrated shank with which a serrated clamping block mounted on the movable jaw is adapted to engage for holding such jaw in fixed position, the block being operated by a pivoted cam that is held in locking position by a spring and is adapted to be retracted by a lever connected therewith when it is desired to adjust the movable jaw.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=45148&pn=544,709 Wrench Patentee: Darius Wilcox - Mechanicsburg PA Granted:1895-08-20
Manufactured by Wilcox Manufacturing Co. - Mechanicsburg PA

The patent is for a one- or two-piece forging forming the body of a screw-adjust nut wrench. Ken Cope's "American Wrench Makers 1830-1930" notes a 1905 Thomas Register entry which implies Wilcox was producing wrenches at Mechanicsburg, PA. Other directories list Wilcox as a manufacturer of drop forgings. A wrench identified as corresponding to this patent has no visible markings.
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