[TheForge] Two odd tools to be identified

[Jeff Wilson]

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From: "Bruce ." <freemab222 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:59 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Two odd tools to be identified


> 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
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