Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 15th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by DANIEL COOK WILGUS, Mechanic, of Los Angeles,
California, and ROBERT CARLISLE WOODWORTH, Merchant, of Los Angeles,
California, United States of America.]
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a device wherein is combined a monkey wrench and an
oil can in a tool of convenient shape and size to be carried in the pocket.
The oil can is formed in the handle of the wrench, and is provided with a threaded
sheathe attached to one side of the handle and extending across the cavity of the can
so as to almost touch the other side of the can. The sides of the can are flat and the
side which is not attached to the sheathe is formed by a spring plate which can be
compressed to force the oil out of the can.
The nipple of the can is at the end of the handle of the wrench and is closed by a
screw cap so that the wrench can be carried in the pocket without spilling the oil.
The sliding bar of the wrench is threaded to screw into the threaded sheathe which is
attached to the side of the oil can on the inner side; and the stationary jaw is so
secured to the handle of the wrench that the handle can be turned around in order to
screw it upon the sliding bar of the wrench. The sheathe extends near enough to the
spring plate which forms the opposite side of the handle of the wrench, to prevent it
from being pressed in far enough to collapse the can.
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page_text: communication from abroad by DANIEL COOK WILGUS, Machinist, of Los
Angeles, California, and ROBERT CARLISLE WOODWORTH, Merchant, of Los
Angeles, California, United States of America.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to that class of tools in which an oil can and wrench are
combined with each other, and consists in a peculiar construction and adaptation of
parts by which superior compactness and convenience are secured.
The handles of wrenches have heretoforo been hollowed out for the purpose of
holding oil, but no provision has been made whereby the oil can be forced out of the
handle, for the reason that the walls of the can were necessarily thick and non-
compressible, in order to give sufficient strength to the handle of the wrench; for
this reason combined oil cans and wrenches have not come into general use.
The object of this invention is to construct a combined oil can and wrench in which
the can is provided with a compressible spring plate whereby the oil can be forced
out of the can; and at the same time secure sufficient strength and rigidity to the
can to allow it to be used as a handle for the wrench.
This is accomplished by means of the device described herein and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which :-
Figure 1, is a plan view of the improved wrench with the spring plate Q, cut away
to show the interior of the oil can.
Figure 2, is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.
Figure 3, is a cross section on line x-x, figure 1.
Figure 4, is a cross section on line y-y, figure 1.
The handle of the wrench consists of the flat case A, the sheathe H, secured to and
forming a part of one side of the case, and the spring plate Q, which is soldered upon
the open side of the case to close the opening. The sheathe H, is threaded to receive
the threaded shank I, of the wrench bar. The sheathe together with the sides of the
case, will give sufficient rigidity to the oil can to allow it to be used as a handle for
the wrench, and the sheathe is brought sufficiently near to the plate Q, as shown in
figures 2 and 4, to prevent the can from being collapsed by too great pressure upon
the spring plate.

page_text: The communicators are aware that heretofore wrenches have been constructed with
the threaded wrench-bar-shank screwed into the threaded socket in the handle of the
wrench and they are also aware that cylindrical handles to wrenches have been
hollowed out for the purpose of containing oil, and they do not broadly claim such
constructions as parts of their invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
In a combined wrench and oil can, the oil can and wrench handle consisting of the
flat, hollow case A; the threaded sheathe H, attached to, and forming part of one
side of the case, and the spring plate Qattached to and forming the other side of
the case.