| US Patent: 223,146 
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| Tool-Handle | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Richard E. Kidder (exact or similar names) - Worcester, MA |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | May 13, 1879 |  
| Granted: | Dec. 30, 1879 |  
 
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| Description: |  | The patent focuses on awls and other small tools formed from wire with an enlarged portion held by a chuck in a tool handle featured in patent no. 148,888. The clamping jaws are spring tensioned, and the tool can retract into the magazine in the handle by unscrewing the cap far enough to open the internal chuck. 
The "rotary magazine" tool holder / awl appears in an 1885 ad in CARPENTRY & BUILDING. |  |