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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
FLETCHER EZZELL, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
P. T. SHIELDS, OF SAME PLACE.
WRENCH.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,314, dated December 29, 1896.
Application filed May 18, 1896. Serial No. 592,016. (No model.)
To all whom it nmay concern: threads engage similar threads on the cylin-
Be it known that I, FLETCHER EZZELL, a drical shank H of the removable jaw I, which
citizen of the United States, residing at San is connected to said shank by an integral rec- 45
Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of tangular web K.
Texas, have invented certain new and useful As will be seen, the movable jaw I is ad-
Improvements in Wrenches; andIdodeclare justable with reference to the rigid jaw by
the following to be afull, clear, and exact de- means of the nut G on the shank H, said
scription of the invention, such as will enable shank sliding in the semicircular orifice D in 50
others skilled in the art to which it apper- the head B and the web K sliding in the ree-
tains to make and use the same. tangular slot E, forming a strong and durable
My invention has relation to wrenches, and movement, and by the arrangement of the
more particularly to that class of removable- jaws extending straight out in front of and
jaw wrenches which can be converted into a in line with the handle a nut or pipe located 55
pipe or monkey wrench at will; and the ob- in a corner or other confined place can be
ject is to produce a simple, strong, and du- readily reached.
rable tool of this kind that can be conven- In Fig. 4 I have shown the pipe-jaw D' de-
iently used in confined places when a monkey- tached from the wrench. It is the same in
wrench would be useless; and to these ends construction except that its inclined face d is 6o
the novelty consists in the construction, com- provided with parallel teeth d' to facilitate its
bination, and arrangement of the same, as engagement with the pipe or any other cylin-
will be hereinafter more fully described, and drical surface.
particularly pointed out in the claim. Having thus fully described my invention,
In the accompanying drawings the same let- what I claim as new and useful, and desire to 65
ters of reference indicate the same parts of secure by Letters Patent of the United States,
the invention. is-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im- A wrench of the class described, compris-
proved wrench. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal cen- ing the handle A, the integral head B, and
tral vertical section of the same on the dotted jaw C provided with a rectangular transverse 70
line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal nut-recess F, the rectangular guide-slot E,
transverse section on the dotted line 3 3 of Fig. and the semicircular guide-orifice D commu-
1, and Fig. 4shows the pipe-jawremovedfrom nicating with said slot E, in combination with
the wrench. the movable jaw I formed with an integralrec-
A is the handle, and its head B is formed tangular web K and a screw-threaded shank 75
with an integral rigid jaw C and a guide-slot H and the nut G, substantially as shown and
having a semicircular orifice D extending at described.
a right angle to the handle, which extends out- In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my
wardly in the form of a rectangular slot E, signature in presence of two witnesses.
forming a continuation of the orifice D.
F is an open-ended recess extending trans- FLETCHER EZZELL.
versely through the head in the path of the Witnesses:
orifice D. An internally - threaded milled- HARRY C. SEELE,
head nut G is located in said recess, and its MoNROE ADLER,
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Ezzell, Fletcher. Wrench., patent, December 29, 1896; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174477/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.