US Patent: 471,765 
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| Ratchet Railroad Track Wrench
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Jan. 06, 1892 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Mar. 29, 1892 | 
 
 
 
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Newton M. Wever and Daniel D. Blount patent March 29, 1892  |  
 
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                        Stan Schulz 
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        Description: |  
| The sockets fit into an end cog-wheel with a circular bore and key-way. The shank portion of the socket has a key. The sockets are held in the head by a set screw. The end cog wheel engages a second internal cog wheel. The ratchet pawls bear on this second cog wheel. There is a shifting lever to disengage one or the other of the ratchet pawls. |  
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