| US Patent: 518,283 
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| Combination Tool | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Frank Edward Snyder (exact or similar names) - Massillon, OH |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | May 15, 1893 |  
| Granted: | Apr. 17, 1894 |  
 
USPTO (New site tip)| Patent Pictures: |  |  |  | Frank Edward Snyder patent April 17, 1894 |  Google Patents
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| Description: |  | The focus of the patent is the spreading jaws with clamping device. Those jaws form a tool for manipulating wire loop hose clamps. A simplified form is also described, with holes in one jaw to hold the free ends of a "U" shaped wire clamp.   
Examples of the tool with the holes for wire ends are known -- marked F. EDW. SNYDER MASSILLON, OHIO PAT. APPLIED FOR. STYLE H.  A variant form with a type of clamp on one jaw is marked PAT'D APR. 17, 94. F. EDW. SNYDER MASSILLON, O. STYLE A. |  |