US Patent: 172,365 
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| Pipe-Wrench
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	        Patentees:
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 | Eliphalet H. Adams (exact or similar names) - St. Joseph, MI |  
| Asher F. Gates (exact or similar names) - St. Joseph, MI |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Oct. 26, 1874 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Jan. 18, 1876 | 
 
 
 
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Eliphalet Adams and Asher Gates Pat. January 18, 1876  |  
 
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                        Stan Schulz 
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        Description: |  
| A rotating head with several size toothed indentations provides the size assortment for this self-adjusting pipe wrench. The swinging hook jaw is held in contact with the work by an exterior spring. |  
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