https://www.datamp.org/ Recently added patents en-us https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=24887&pn=1,079,997 Combination-Tool Patentee: Henry G. Wernimont - Washington DC Granted:1913-12-02
Manufactured by Utilitool Company - Chicago IL

The tool combines jaw segments with two different jaw styles with handles that can be rotated so that either pair of jaws can be used. The handle ends can be formed as conventional screwdriver and tack claw. Versions of the patent were granted in several countries. British patent 27,540 of 1913 (GB-191327540) granted to Wernimont and William Rauen provides some insight into early production, with Wernimont and Rauen forming the Wernimont-Rauen Co. at Chicago. Some marketed as UTILITOOL from Jefferson, WI or Chicago (Utilitool showed a Chicago address in the early 1920s ) -- some produced by Utility Tool Company of Chicago. UTILITOOL was submitted for trademark by the Utilitool Co. in 1921. Improved by patent no. 1,514,488, which adds supplemental supporting structure to the connection between the jaw and handle pieces.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85938&pn=1,759,642 Wire stretcher Patentee: Levi Hawbaker - Elmore MN Granted:1930-05-20
Manufactured by Levi Hawbaker Stretcher Co. - Elmore MN

Pivoted lever handles with wire clamps, and temporary binding means at the ends. Marketed as an in-line fence wire repair tool.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85937&pn=1,809,126 Metal-working tool Patentee: Herman W. Johnson - St. Louis MO Granted:1931-06-09
Manufactured by Stiles-Herman Mfg. Co. - St. Louis MO
Assigned to Stiles-Herman Mfg. Co. - St. Louis MO

Produced as the HERMAN FENDER ROLLER to remove dents and straighten the edges of automobile fenders; sold together with the the combination tool in patent no. 1,778,949. Late 1927 ads noted "Patent pending" and named Herman Johnson as the source, while a 1928 STILES-HERMAN ad shows "patented."
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=85936&pn=1,420,064 Device for smoothing sheet metal Patentee: John C. Stiles - St. Louis MO Granted:1922-06-20
Manufactured by Stiles Mfg. Co. - St. Louis MO

Adjustable frame with mountings and attachments for straightening and removing dents from automobile sheet metal-- fenders, etc. Patent date appears on example of the STILES "ROLLSEMOUT" "fender roller" tool. STILES (later STILES-HERMAN) made a variety of auto body repair tools.
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]]> https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=70369&pn=229,614 Treadle Mechanism for Dental Engine Patentee: William A. Johnson - Edgewater, Richmond County NY Granted:1880-07-06

Abstract: My invention relates to a treadle mechanism to which I have designed with special reference to the requirements of a dental engine or lathe, but which is applicable also to other machines designed to be operated by foot-power. It consists in providing the treadle with an elevating-spring, which partly raises the treadle and tends to keep the crank off the center, and in combining therewith a fly or driving wheel slightly out of balance, so that the wheel will tend to come to rest at a point where the treadle will be partly raised, and the crank will be to that side of the center where it should be, in order to insure that the wheel shall start in the proper direction. It also consists in the means hereinafter described for mounting the free end of the spring upon the guide on or over which that end moves when the treadle oscillates. Claim: The combination, with the treadle mechanism, of a spring for raising, the treadle and a fly or driving wheel slightly out of balance.
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