| US Patent: 132,789 
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| Improvement in wrenches | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Quimby S. Backus (exact or similar names) - Millers Falls, MA |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Granted: | Nov. 05, 1872 |  
 
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| Description: |  | "The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a wrench, in which the movable jaw is held in place by friction produced by operation on the object..." 
See the writeup on Backus accompanying patent 132,791. 
A wood-handled example appeared in an October, 2012 Martin J. Donnelly auction, and an all-steel example with angled jaws appeared in a March 22, 2014 Donnelly auction. |  |