[TheForge] Two odd tools to be identified

[Bruce .]

They're both steel or mostly so (BS content).  Impulse purchases at
the flea market, bought at separate booths, so probably unrelated to
each other.

Is there still a way to post photos?  These are kinda hard to
describe.  Last I heard, there was a problem with the photo site.  If
any of you recognize either of these "finds", let me know.

1)  Think "C-clamp" to get you started.  The back of the C is a 1/2"
rod, 5" long.  There are three "arms" from this, rather like a capital
"E", except the center arm is mobile so may be anywhere on the rod.
The top and bottom "arms" are firmly attached to the back rod,
possibly by peening.  The top and center "arms" each have one
incisor-like tooth at the end, that won't quite meet.  The center
"arm" (the mobile jaw of the clamp) is completely mobile, sliding up
and down the rod or rotating about it.  The bottom "arm" supports the
screw, which is pretty much like the screw on any C-clamp, except that
it ends in a flat.  This flat impinges upon a slight hollow in the
back side of the center "arm."  There's a trademark stamped (?) onto
the arms:  A "W" inclosed in a diamond.  The bottom arm is marked "Pat
June 815" or possibly "...813"

All in all, this thing could function as a C-clamp, but those two
teeth would bite anything they clamped onto, which is probably the
point.  I don't know whether the swiveling of the center arm (i.e.,
the lower jaw of the clamp) is intrinsic to the function, or merely an
artifact of the use of a round rod as the back of the clamp.

2) An acme screw, 5/16" OD x 9 TPI, with a 3"-long wooden handle (&
ferrule) on one end, and a swivel pad (just like on a C-clamp) on the
other.  The screw passes through a cast-iron part that has a
slot(~5/8" high X ~1/4+" wide), the opening toward the handle end.  A
thumb screw intersects this slot, so apparently this entire device was
to be clamped onto a metal rod perhaps 1/4" thick X 1.125" high max --
lest it interfere with the handle.

So clamped, turning the handle would push the swivel pad up against
some absent something.



-- 
Bruce
NJ