Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
Tools |
Lead pipe expanding pliers | 102612T11 |
11" long, 2" long head |
signed "PAT. MAY 5th 1896" |
These are used by plumbers. This is the same patent, it belongs to John Anderson, as used on |
the Stanley No. 19. |
(http://www.google.com/patents/US559763?pg=PA2&dq=anderson+May+5+1896&hl=en&sa=X |
&ei=iJ-SUPjDI- |
GQ0AW7koD4AQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=anderson%20May%205%201896&f=f |
alse). |
Linemans' pliers | 072112T8 |
6 1/2" long, 1" wide |
signed "THE WAYMOTH CORP., PAWTUCKET, R.I." |
This company made only cutting pliers (http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/other-makers- |
p3.html). |
Mechanics' cold chisel | 93011T8 |
18" long, 2" wide | bio |
signed "ATHA" "1470" and with a horseshoe enclosing an A |
Pin vise | 22612T7 |
4 1/2" long |
unsigned |
This tool was made in the late 1800s or early 1900s. |
Pipe tongs | 122913T1 |
11" long, 2" tall, 1/2" wide |
unsigned |
These tongs, sometimes called a pipe wrench, are used for pipes and pumps. |
Pliers | 102512T12 |
11 1/4" long, 2" wide |
signed "PAT. JULY. 6. 75" "OUT>>>" "<<<IN" and with owner's mark "ANSON P. MORRILL" |
stamped several times |
Silas and John W. Sparks held the July 6, 1875 patent 165,266 for pliers |
(http://www.google.com/patents/US165266?pg=PA2&dq=pliers+July+6+1875&hl=en&sa=X&ei |
=FfePULSmLoa- |
0QXT0oCoDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=pliers%20July%206%201875&f=false). |
Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
Pliers | 31011T6 |
8" long |
signed "HUBER PHIL" "C STEEL" |
The nose is made to grip round materials. DATM (Nelson 1999, 406) lists Huber H. F. & A. in |
Philadelphia as manufacturers of leather-making tools in 1836 and Henry Huber of |
Philadelphia in 1870-1871. |
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