US Patent: 395,595 
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Wrench Improvements in Sliding-Jaw Ratchet Wrenches
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	        Patentee:
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 | Albion K. Spaulding (exact or similar names) - North Belgrade, ME |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Apr. 13, 1888 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Jan. 01, 1889 | 
 
 
 
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Albion K. Spaulding patent January 1, 1889  |  
 
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                        Stan Schulz 
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        Description: |  
| A spring-loaded pawl on the movable jaw engages rack teeth inset on a piece sliding in the side of the main shank. A tapering face on the ferule of the handle can be adjusted to slide the rack toothed piece to take up any slack in the adjustment. 
A Maine collector constructed one based on the patent drawings. |  
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