US Patent: 36,289 
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Improvement in Pipe-Wrenches Improved Wrench for Grasping and Turning Gas-Pipes, Bolts and Any Article of Cylindrical Form
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	        Patentee:
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 | Henry V. Faries (exact or similar names) - Indianapolis, IN |  
 
 
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| 81/99 |  
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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Aug. 26, 1862 | 
 
 
 
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Henry V. Faries patent Aug. 26, 1862  |  
 
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                        Stan Schulz 
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        Description: |  
| An external spring presses a hook-shape jaw against a toothed stationary jaw section on the main shank.
"Self-adjusting" swinging hook jaw pipe wrenches of this general layout were revisited in numerous patents.  |  
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