US Patent: 160,954 
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Improvement in Drill-Chucks Collet chuck for drill and screwdriver bits.
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	        Patentee:
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 | John O. Reilley (exact or similar names) - Jersey City, NJ |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Feb. 16, 1875 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Mar. 16, 1875 | 
 
 
 
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        Description: |  
| The collet is split into four segments at each end and is tightened onto the bit by a threaded shell that compresses the collet between a conical recess inside the spindle and another conical recess at the nose of the shell. |  
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