Improvements in Spanners and Pipe Wrenches Combined.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spanners and Pipe Wrenches Combined.
EVAN MORGAN, Smiths Arins Inn, Pwllbach, Ystalyfera, R.S.O., Glamorganshire,
Waterworks Fitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
An improved spanner or pipe wrench with the jaws so arranged that they will suit
either a nut or pipe at the gripping end. The jaws which are for gripping either a
nut or pipe at the gripping end are attached to a moveable bar running through a
tube or casing and adjusted or worked by a screw nut or other suitable means at the
other end of spanner or pipe wrench. The jaws are in four separate pieces one of
which is permanently attached to the tube or casing which the moveable bar runs
through, the other three pieces are made so that either of then can be detached to
suit the requirements of gripping a nut or pipe, the one jaw which is permanently
fixed to the tube or casing has a slot in one portion of it to receive the detachable
piece which causes it to assist in the gripping of a pipe by which I mean as follows.
This improved spanner or pipe wrench consists of a moveable bar with a screw thread
at the one end, on which fits a mut or other suitable means for adjustable purposes,
on which tube or casing is permanently
this moveable bar runs through a tube or casing
fixed one of the jaws above mentioned the bar which runs through the tube or casing
has at the gripping end a hole for receiving the screw or pin which fastens either the
pipe jaw for using as a pipe wrench or the spanner jaw for using as a spanner so that
there are three changeable jaws two of which are used when the tool is used as a pipe
wrench these two when wanted to use the tool as a spanner are removed and the other
jaw put on end of moveable bar.
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Improvements in Spanners and ripe wren
I, EVAN MORGAN, of Smiths Arms, Pwllbach, Ystalyfera, in the County of
Glamorganshire, Waterworks Fitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertain in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in spanners and pipe wrenches combined.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof reference being had to letters and figures

page_text: Fig. 1, is a side elevation of the tool fitted up as a pipe wrench; the tube c and the
movable bar b is shewn broken off.
Fig. 2, is the end of the tool fitted up as a spanner.
My invention consists of an improved spinner or pipe wrench with the jaws so
arranged that they will either bait a nut or pipe at the gripping end. The
jaws a, a, a, and a³, are for gripping either a nut or a pipe at the gripping end the
jaws, 3 are attached to a moveable bar running through a tube c or casing and
adjusted or worked by a screw-nut d or other suitable means at the other end of
spanner or pipe wrench. The jaws are in four separate pieces, one of which marked a
is permanently attached to the tube or easing which the movable bar 6 runs through,
the other three pieces a¹,a² and a³ are made so that either of them can be detached to
suit the requirements of gripping a nut or pipe. The one jaw a which is permanently
fixed to the tube c or casing has a slot in one portion of it to receive the detachable
piece or movable barb which causes it to assist in the gripping of a pipe by which I
mean as follows:-This improved spanner or pipe wrench consists of a movable bar b
with a screw thread e at the one end on which fits a nut d or other suitable means
for adjustable purposes, this movable bar bruns through a tube or casing e on which
tuhe or casing is permanently fixed one of the jaws a above mentioned, the bar b
which runs through the tube or casing has at the gripping end a hole ƒ for receiving
the screw or pin g which fastens either the pipe jaw a² for using as a pipe wrench or
the spanner jaw a³ for using as a spanner, so that there are three changeable jaws, two
of which are used when the tool is used as a pipe wrench as in Fig. 1, these two
when wanted to use the tool as a spauner are removed, and the other jaw put on end
of noveable bar as in Fig. 2.
The jaw a is provided with a hole in order to fix the end of jaw a' by means of a
screwed bolt ; the end of the jaw a¹ is formed with a shoulder j and fits in a slot
cut in the jaw a.
A portion of the jaw
on its outside face is provided with teeth in order to grip
the circumference of a pipe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In spanners and pipe wrenches combined, the combination and arrangements of the
various parts of mechanism substantially as above described in this specification for
the purpose specified and according to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.