| US Patent: 509,252 
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| Wrench | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Amos Shepard (exact or similar names) - Plantsville, CT |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Aug. 07, 1893 |  
| Granted: | Nov. 21, 1893 |  
 
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| Description: |  | The patent is for the manufacturing process.  It describes steel casting and a broaching operation to form the rectangular opening down the length of the handle.  The scale on the handle showing the size of the jaw opening is included in the patented features.
The wrench corresponds to the Peck, Stow & Wilcox bicyle wrench announced in the April 10, 1893 "Iron Age." |  |