Check out this old Crescent

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I found this one a few weeks ago at the flea market. Now I'm sure you guys, like me, have seen a million 8" Crescent adjustables, but I've never seen one marked Patent Pending.
Do you think this one dates from around the time of the original patent (1915)? The hanging hole is round, not broached.

 

[woody 73]

Interesting but something tells me it is later then 1915, still hold on to it nice find!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Nice find.

 

[Zeeman]

Cool. I'd like to know how old it is too.

 

[JUNK-MAN]

Thats pretty neat!

 

[drivesitfar]

UNAIU: that one looks like it's rounded off more than a few bolts. it might have been maybe the only tool in the guy's box or i bet it was his GO TO one. in any case i can't say i've seen one, but thanks for posting and now i'll take a closer look. since i own more than a few Crescent wrenches and yes it was and probably still is a GO TO TOOL i might have passed on buying that one if someone was just selling a single tool just because of the beat up jaws. nice find and like Woody i have a hard time believing it's that old. maybe Twertsy or another member knows?

 

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Thanks guys, for the replies.
The Crescent Brand adjustables seem to have seen only minor changes to it's basic design since the patent was filed. Up through the 40's, the panel on the handle where the Brand and size is stamped is closed off before it gets to the adjusting nut. That panel was later opened to the adjusting nut, sometime in the 50's I believe. So, I think this wrench is pretty old. Obviously with no patent info on the wrench itself, it's difficult to date.

The patent drawing shows a hex broaching for the hanging hole (31), but I've never seen a Crescent with that feature.
The language from the patent is:

"A hole 31 is provided in the opposite end of the wrench handle 10 from the head 11 for hanging the wrench and in order that said wrench may be ready for instantaneous use without the adjusting of' the jaws :for the size nut most common in use, for example, a one inch nut, said hole 31 is made hexagonal and of the size most desired."

I wonder if they never landed on a size that was "most desired".

Patent image:

 

[lbgradwell]

Do you think this one dates from around the time of the original patent (1915)?

I do. Nice.

And I've never seen a Crescent with a broach either...

 

[Al Borland]

Funny, they talk about a hexagonal hole, yet it's clearly an octagon in the drawing.

 

[lbgradwell]

Funny, they talk about a hexagonal hole, yet it's clearly an octagon in the drawing.

Good eye.
But square nuts were quite common at the time, so perhaps that actually was the original intent.

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