GB Patent: GB-189,313,897
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| Improvements in Spanners
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Patentee:
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| William Durant (exact or similar names) - Chapeltown, Yorkshire England |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jul. 18, 1893 |
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May 19, 1894 |
| Antedated: |
Jul. 18, 1893 |
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British Patent GB189313897 - edited from Abridgments of Specifications. |
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Description: |
| Entry based on "Abridgments of Specifications." Ron Geesin's THE ADJUSTABLE SPANNER shows an example of the Durant patent, but failed to identify the manufacturer. Items in 1896-1897 trade journals note introduction of the wrench.
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 # convention adopted for these uses the year of registration and the patent # (with "leading zeros" interposed to make the number total nine digits). This patent is #13,897 of the year 1893. |
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