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| Specialty jaw shape for Vise-Grip(r) plier wrenches; the center of the jaws grips hex nuts on three sides. The jaws include a wire cutter, and a section intended to function as a spoke nipple wrench.
Produced as the Vise-Grip(r) Locking Wrench(r), in three sizes: 4LW, 7LW and 10LW. Contemporary advertising names American Tool Co., Allen Petersen's "umbrella" corporation that included other formerly family owned tool companies.
8 foreign and 32 U.S. patents are cited as relevant prior art:
D260,476, 389,666, 685,215, 816,278, 928,849, 1,340,092, 1,489,458, 1,709,794, 2,212,801, 2,471,606, 2,558,440, 2,561,682, 2,885,758, 3,192,804, 3,195,382, 3,336,825, 3,635,107, 3,894,451, 4,014,226, 4,079,765, 4,145,793, 4,472,986, 4,505,011, 4,534,246, 4,541,312, 4,546,680, 4,709,601, 4,730,524, 4,989,479, 5,007,312, 5,095,783, 5,101,530. |
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