A Spring-handled Wrench or Spanner, applicable also as a Tool-handle.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 16th May,
1891
TRONINIONAL STIT
A Spring-handled Wrench or Spanner, applicable also as a
Tool-handle.
JOHN CHANTER No. 1 Berkeley Mews, West Connaught Square, London,
Coach Maker, and WILLIAM WITHAM, 22 Grove Street, Lisson Grove,
London, Coachsmith. We do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A spring-handled wrench or spanner, made of steel or any other suitable metal,
with two opposing jaws for use in gripping and turning nuts of bolts, gas-pipes, or
any similar screwed attachments. The spring part of the wrench being made to
serve as a pad-handle for tools held in the grip of the jaws of the wrench or
spanner.
The spring-handle which opens the jaws being made continuous from the jaws in
one piece of steel or other suitable metal. This spring handle being formed of a
suitable shape to serve for use as a pad-handle.
To aid in securing any tools which may be held in the grip of the jaws of the.
wrench or spanner we recess the faces of the jaws with holes and notches to receive
projections made on the tangs of the tools to be held by the jaws.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1890.
JOHN CHANTER.
WILLIAM WITHAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Spring-handled Wrench or Spanner, applicable also as a
Tool-handle.
JOHN CHANTER 1 Berkeley Mews West Connaught Square London_Coach
Maker, and WILLIAM WITHAM 22 Grove Street Lisson Grove, London
Coachsmith. We do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
A spring-handled wrench or spanner, applicable also as a tool-handle, made of
steel or any other suitable metal for use in screwing-up or unscrewing nuts of bolts
gas-pipes or similar attachments of screwed pieces or joints, also to serve as a "pad-
handle" to hold small tools: as a screw-driver, gimlet, gouge, awl, file, corkscrew
or similar tools.
We construct the spring-handled wrench or spanner of steel or any other suitable
metal with two opposing jaws J and by their extension into a handle in one piece
of steel or other suitable metal, bent to the shape of a handle A as of a screw-
driver; this handle forming an open loop this loop being the spring which actuates
the jaws of the wrench or spanner. At the inside of the jaws of the wrench or
spanner are suitable recesses to receive the tangs, of the small tools to be held by
the jaws of the wrench or spanner above described.
For closing the jaws of the spring-handled wrench or spanner a hole is made
through each jaw of the spring-handled wrench or spanner to receive a screwed
bolt T with a thumb-screw head, which screwed bolt passes freely through one of
the jaws and is screwed into the other jaw of the spring-handled wrench or
spanner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1st. A wrench or spanner made in one piece of steel or suitable metal with
the hand-part shaped in an open bow, which serves as a spring to actuate the
opening of the jaws of the wrench or spanner.
2nd. That the opposing jaws of the spring-handled wrench or spanner are formed
so as to grip any thing circular as gas-pipes when actuated by the pressure of the
screwed bolt through the jaws.
JOHN CHANTER.
WILLIAM WITHAM.