| US Patent: 126,013 
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| Improvement in Wrenches | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Horace G. Brown (exact or similar names) - Collinsville, CT |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Granted: | Apr. 23, 1872 |  
 
USPTO (New site tip)| Patent Pictures: |  |  |  | Horace G. Brown Pat. April 23, 1872 |  Google Patents
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| Description: |  | The base for the adjusting screw is keyed into the wrench shank, and held in place by the ferule and wood handle.  This construction is called cheaper and more certain than welding -- an oblique reference to Luke Chapman's Nov. 21, 1871 patent (no. 121,083). |  |