Latest Addition to the Directory of American Tools and Machinery Patents (DATAMP)

Improvements in or relating to motor driven grinding or abrading machines Patentee: Edwin Crowther Ashton - Heckmondwike, county York England Granted:1941-02-21


This is one of 68,820 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Screw Driver Patentee: George P. Butler - New Haven CT Granted:1921-09-20

This Patent pertains to attaching the blade to the handle with a interlocking bolster similar to 214785 used in the "Champion" screwdriver. Sample marked, 'Winchester Special'.
This is one of 68,810 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Foot Vise Patentee: Edward B Newnam - Denver CO Granted:1900-12-11


This is one of 68,769 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Electrically operated tool Patentee: James Somerville Knowlson - Oak Park IL Granted:1922-05-09

This is the Canadian equivalent of US patent 1,298,966.
This is one of 68,742 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Punching machine and the like Patentees: George B. Scheffey - Riverside NJ , Paul C. Klingler - Riverside NJ Granted:1938-04-05

This punch press was intended for "blanking articles of different configurations from paper, cardboard, sheet metals and other kinds of strip or sheet material. It was manufactured by Ferracute Machine Co., and sold by Super Speed Press Corp., and sold for stamping sheet metal among other materials. The presses had capacity of from 10 to 30 tons, weighed 3000 to 10,2350 lbs, and could cycle as many as 1000 times per minute.
This is one of 68,715 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Engine governor Patentee: Emil R. Klemm Jr. - Chicago IL Granted:1934-11-20

This is the Canadian equivalent of US patent 1,817,629.
This is one of 68,664 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Chuck Patentee: William H. McCoy - Miller's Falls MA Granted:1896-09-29

This patent date was seen on a Millers Falls No. 2 Type K5 eggbeater drill. "My present invention relates to chucks for holding tools and other articles; and the particular improvements therein consist in simplifying the parts, whereby the cost of manufacture is cheapened, in obviating the necessity of using any form of spring, and in the strength, durability, and positiveness of its action..."
This is one of 68,635 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Multiple Tool Head for Drill Presses Patentee: Benjamin P. Fortin - Hartford CT Granted:1918-10-29

Harry R. Williams - patent attorney This patent was improved by patent #1,326,398 and also patented in Great Britain, patent #GB-153,193.
This is one of 68,524 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Vise Patentee: Charles McCarter - Decatur IL Granted:1922-04-25

One of these appeared on one of Patrick Leach's tool lists. Here is his description of it: Another rare and crazy vise. McCarter envisioned a Prentice style vise mounted on a sphere so that it has limitless positions as it's moved over the sphere; a rotating level locks the vise at the desired position over the sphere; embossed with his name and patent date, the entire thing is clamped to the bench
This is one of 68,462 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Bench Vise Patentee: Jack E Messenger - Des Moines IA Granted:1921-12-13


This is one of 68,438 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Splicing Sleeve Compressing Tool Patentee: Frank J. Mayer - Cleveland OH Granted:1939-09-19

Pliers type tool with thin jaws incorporating two sizes of compression "notches." The tool was designed to coordinate with compression splicing sleeves used with telephone wires. The patent number appears on No. 17-2 NICOPRESS TOOL from The National Telephone Supply Co.
This is one of 68,418 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Quick Actiing Vise Patentee: Edwin W Fulton - Lowville NY Granted:1921-08-16


This is one of 68,396 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Vise Patentees: David C. Sabourin - Lowell MA , Joseph Sabourin - Lowell MA Granted:1891-12-08


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Verstellbarer Schraubenschlüssel .. Patentee: Harry Scheffer - Aachen Germany Granted:1904-03-17

A tapered cam end on the swinging handle bears against matching beveled edge of the movable jaw. Pressure on the face of the movable jaw creates clamping force to help hold the adjustment. The design is a modification of the version appearing in U.S. patent 741,841, British patent GB-190226218, etc. A 1904 writeup for the "Weltschlüssel" produced by Gesellschaft für Werkzeug-Industrie G.m.b.H. (Remscheid-Haddenbach, Germany) references this patent but shows a design corresponding to those earlier patents. German patent Klasse 87 (a) Gruppe 10.
This is one of 68,376 patents currently in the database at datamp.org

Windeisen für verschiedene Stärken mit an der Enden befindlichen Schraubenschlüsseln verschiedener Dimensionen Patentee: Robert Barlen - Düsseldorf Germany Granted:1907-10-25

Produced as PRAKTIKUS sets in five sizes, with double-size hex sockets on the ends, and four sizes of square "tap wrench" (Windeisen) openings in the shank. Barlen advertised in a range of technical and trade journals in 1908; the ads claimed the set provided twenty sizes each of square & hexagon wrenches. A write-up in the April 20, 1908 Der MOTORWAGEN provided the D.R.G.M. number. German Gebrauchsmuster Registrations are not included in online patent sources. They are known only from the German patent office's PATENTBLATT and from lists and notices in trade publications and the like. German patent Klasse 87 (c).
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Bench Vise Patentee: James O. Barrett - Erie PA Granted:1883-10-23

See Also US Patent 284,997
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