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Just picked up a old very very odd socket set
Just picked up a old very very odd socket set
came with a wood dovetailed box so it must be old crome winder style driver 1/2'' insert driver a very odd looking driver [kinda like a pepper mill] with 8 big exposed ratcheting teeth [double set to reverce] uses a ring to slide up and down to change ratchet direction fold out handel to turn it about 10'' long/high sheet steel formed sockets in 1/32 sized to over 1'' decal on box said AUTO CL5 SOCKET WRENCH SET MADE BY FRANK MOxxxxx CO [maybe morris] made in USA M in a diamond logo xxx are unreadable letters on old worn decal any ideas on who or where or when and value???? looks to be a very very early socket set anyone else into old tools lots of woodworking stuff on the net but little on older auto repair tools or metal working of any kind |
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Found It
FOUND IT
patented in 1903 and replaced in production in 1912 with more modern design link to patent #751055 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT751055 drawing http://www.google.com/patents?id=vrksAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1 up dated patent Patent number: RE12379 Filing date: Apr 15, 1905 Issue date: Aug 15, 1905 Inventor: CAMILLE CONTAL http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATRE12379 drawing http://www.google.com/patents?id=xTMiAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA24 "Auto-Cle" from the Quincy, Manchester, Sargent Company 751,055 81/58.3 C. Contal [Used for AUTO-CLE sets] 10/15/1903 02/02/1904 Ratchet wrench set Sargent Co bought by Frank Mossberg in 1908 , he was a notable inventor and businessman in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and owner of Frank Mossberg Co the maker of my tool set in 1912 Frank Mossberg patented a more modern ratchet and sometime afterwards droped production of my tool set date it to about 1910 + or - a few years link to mossberg co history http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-arti...ml#mossberg-350 GOT TO LOVE THE INTERNET FOR THIS KIND OF INFO __________________ |
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Those antique knuckle busters are fascinating. I don't collect old tools-other than those I use, some are 50 years old and I bought them new- but I have a few interesting pieces that were given to me.
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