Improved Wrench.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left. 16th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1396
Improved Wrench.
I, PERCY RICHARD JULIUS WILLIS, of 55 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me from abroad by William Harding of Orangeville, Ontario, Canada,
Inventor,) to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an improved wrench which will be
simple and strong in construction, and which can be adjusted very expeditiously to
fit nuts of various sizes.
The wrench comprises a suitable head or jaw of the usual shape and having an
integrally formed handle.
A similar shaped jaw, having an aperture through it, is adapted to slide along
the handle of the jaw. This sliding jaw has an extension at one end which is
bifurcated to receive one end of a handle, which is pivoted therein and adapted to
lie evenly in contact with the handle of the other jaw or head. That part
of the handle which is pivoted in the bifurcation of the sliding jaw is eccentric and
milled on its edge.
The upper surface of the fixed handle is ribbed transversely.
When the pivoted handle is raised the sliding jaw can be adjusted into the
required position; but when it is depressed its eccentrically-shaped end bears upon
the upper ribbed surface of the handle of the fixed head or jaw, and prevents
movement of the sliding jaw.
In an alternative form, the pivoted handle has two or more teeth upon its under
surface about midway its length, and these teeth are adapted to engage ribs upon
the upper surface of the other handle. A spring secured to the fixed head or jaw
passes over and coincides with the pivoted handle and holds the two normally
together with the teeth and ribs in engagement.
Dated this 15th day of October 1895.
PERCY R. J. WILLIS.
Improved Wrench.
I PERCY RICHARD JULIUS WILLIS, of 55 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a communication
to me from abroad by William Harding, of Orangeville, Ontario, Canada,
Inventor,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide an improved wrench which will be
simple and strong in construction, and which can be adjusted very expeditiously to
fit nuts of various sizes.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings hereunto annexed, the
illustration shews a side view of my improved wrench.
The wrench comprises a suitable head or jaw A, of the usual shape and having
an integrally formed handle B.

page_text: A similarly shaped jaw C having an aperture D through it is adapted to slide
along the handle B. The jaw has an extension E which is bifurcated to
receive une end of a handle F, which is pivoted therein at G and is adapted to lie
evenly in contact with the handle 8. The part I of the handle which is
pivoted in the bifurcation of the sliding jaw Cis eccentric and milled on its edge
as shewn at .J.
The upper surface of the handle B is ribbed transversely as shewn at K.
When the pivoted handle is raised the sliding jaw can be adjasted into the
required position to take a nut of any size; but when it is depressed its eccentrically
pivoted part 1 bears upon the upper ribbed surface K of the handle Band prevents
movement of the sliding jaw C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A wrench comprising a hamile having a head integrally formed at one end
thereof, and the upper surface of said handle ribbed or roughened transversely, a
sliding jaw carried upon the handle and having its upper part bifurcated, a handle
pivoted eccentrically in the lifurented part of the sliding jaw and having the
edge of its cecentrically pivoted part rughened, all substantially as and for the
purposes heinbefore described and -hewn in the drawing hereunto annexed.
Dated this 16th day of July 1×96.
PERCY R. J. WILLIS