VA: that Mantle vise is COOL!!
Zoomie: 800 Wilton is looking good and I bet it's only going to get better with the new parts. do you shave your head after it sells or before and which type of cancer is the charity the funds are going to?
ALL: so since my vise (NOT THE CHINESE WONDER VISE) only says NuTYP on it could it be that Sawyer wasn't part of the making of it? it does have the scalopped tops of the towers like all Sawyers do. any of you wise patent and catalog guys have any information you might want to post you have my permission.
Drives, you asked....
The NuTyp Vise has a tangled history. I am in the process of working it out. Here is what I have so far:
The original NuTyp Vise was patented by E.W. Fulton on 17 Jan 1922 - Patent #1404109. This vise is a direct descendant of the Reed Patent Vise, patented by Hiram Reed on Feb 16, 1904 - Patent #752260.
The NuTyp vise was originally sold under the name F&R Combination Vise, by Fulton Machine & Vise of Lowville, NY. (F&R as in Fulton & Reed) Here is a link to the announcement:
https://books.google.com/books?id=nXFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA75
Best I can date this announcement is late 1921 early 1922.
In an early 1922 edition of the Engineering Directory, the F&R Combination VIse is listed as being produced by Boker Cutlery & Hardware Co Inc., New York and Fulton Machine & VIse of Lowville. Here is the URL:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Oz08AQAAMAAJ
- the Google book is locked due to copyright, but I have the images to support this somewhere.
Again. late 1921 early 1922 a seriws of announcements:
1921 15 Dec Iron Age, Volume 108: Atlas Vise has been incorporated.
1921 22 Dec American Machinist: Atlas Vise Company has been incorporated
1921 29 Dec Iron Trade Review, Volume 69: Atlas Vise organization will be completed shortly.
1922 26 Jan American Machinist Fulton Machine and Vise now made by Atlas Vise Co.
1922 26 Jan NuTyp first manufactured by Fulton Machine and Vise Co of Lowville, NY, under name of F&R Combination Special Vise is now made by Atlas Vise of Lowville, NY. and sold by Boker Cutlery and Hardware.
1922 marks the first mention of the NuTyp vise. Here is the URL supporting thr Atlas/Boker connection:
https://books.google.com/books?id=UeM-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA157
According to the American Machinist of 3 March, 1922, Fulton Machine and Vise Company, Lowville, N.Y. has gone into bankruptcy.
1924 Fulton sells business, moves to Oswego, NY and joins The Oswego Tool Company.
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Proces... Oswego Daily Times June-Aug 1924 - 0508.pdf
Benjamin W. Dow, who has for the last five years been works manager of the Oswego Tool company, has tendered his resignation to take effect at the convenience of the company.
The Oswego Tool company has been particularly fortunate in securing the services of Edwin W. Fulton of Lowville, N. Y., who will take over Mr, Dow's duties as soon as convenient.
Mr. Fulton controls the Atlas Vise Company, Inc., and the Velox Vise Company, Inc., of Lowville, N. Y,, and by this connection the Oswego Tool Company acquires the rights to manufacture and sell the celebrated Velox quick action machinists bench vise and the Nutyp combination pipe and bench vise, and the business of these companies will be transferred to, Oswego.
The Velox vise is a patented quick action bench vise used by the larger manufacturers where speed of production is essential and the NuTyp vise meets with a ready sale in garages, repair shops and homes where a combination pipe and machinist vise is needed.
In addition to the above patented vises, under Mr. Fulton's direction the Oswego Tool company will also manufacture a line of standard machinists bench vises in a full range of sizes of stationary and swivel base types. It is estimated that the addition of these lines will necessitate the employment of at least 50 new men land increase the sales of the company materially.
The Oswego Tool company already manufactures combination vises and is thoroughly equipped to manufacture these additional lines.
Mr. Fulton, who will shortly become a permanent resident of Oswego, was for many years with the Prentice Vise company, who are one of the largest manufacturers of vises of this type and was six years With the Bagley & Sewall company of Watertown.
Up to three years ago Mr. Fulton was connected with the Fulton Vise and Machine company of Lowville, which has recently been reorganized the Lowville Vise company.
In 1930 Fulton forms International Nutyp Tool Corporation (I.N.T.) - Oswego Tool Company is bought by INT. INT now produces the NuTyp Vise, the Golden Age of the NuTyp.
1932 6 Dec Fulton received Patent 1,890,114 for Addition of Third Jaw Set, not assigned;
application date 29 Aug 1930 residence Lowville.
In 1935 this article appears in a number of Fulton County newspapers:
1935 Bankruptcy Notice:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the Northern District of New York in the Matter of International NuTyp Tool Corporation, Bankrupt.
To the creditors of the International NuTyp Tool Corporation, of the City of Oswego, County of Oswego and District aforesaid, a Bankruptcy.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 23rd day of January 1935 the said International NuTyp Tool Corporation was ???? adjudicated a bankrupt and that the first meeting and hearing of its creditors will be held at the office of Avery H. Wright referee in Bankruptcy Room 3, Oswego City Savings Bank Building, Oswego N.Y. on the 14th day of March, 1935 at 10 o'clock A.M. at which time the said creditors ??? attend, prove their claims, approve a Trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that you and each of you are hereby required to show cause at the time and place heretofore mentioned why the business of the above named bankrupt corporation should not be continued under the Trustee hereinafter to be named.
Dated at Oswego, N. Y. this ?? day of March, 1935.
AVERY H. WRIGHT
Referee in Bankruptcy
From here on NuTyps are listed as "of Oswego". I suspect that Sawyer Tool was formed to buy the rights to the NuTyp during bankruptcy proceedings or that Sawyer Brass and Iron Foundry of Oswego bought the NuTyp rights.
So, manufacturers of the NuTyp are:
Fulton, Atlas, Oswego, INT, Sawyer. - possibly more.
One more thing: Patent #1684215 was for the swivel nut wrench on the INT produced NuTyps.
JKB
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on the Sawyer Zoom.---You can look at the quality of the vise and see the USA craftsmanship, even if NuTYP wasn't on it.
