Help ID bottle jack

[wvhuntandfishtoo]

Sorry that I don't have a better photo of the plaque on the jack, but can anyone ID this one? It looks like a Hein Werner, but the what I can see in the photo is part of the lettering I can see what looks like "ep", "18", "tons", and "Wis". It doesn't look like it would be an 18 ton jack, so I'm assuming the "18" is part of the model name.

 

[four.cycle]

Hello there @wvhuntandfishtoo and welcome to the site!

I have the following entries for "jack" in my list located in Wisconsin:

Ajax / Ajax Auto Parts Co., Racine, WI / auto jack / patent ? /

Blackhawk / Blackhawk Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, WI (1919-195?) / patent 1476058 Dec 4 1923 John B. Drahonovsky & 1764690 Jun 17 1930 & 1927844 Sep 26 1933 & RE 19287 Aug 21 1934 Edward M. Pfauser / https://www.protoindustrial.com/en/Pages/Blackhawk.aspx / http://alloy-artifacts.org/blackhawk-innovation.html / https://www.datamp.org//patents/search/xrefPerson.php?id=48488 / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-vintage-blackhawk-thread.127364/ /

Hein Werner / Hein Werner, Shinn Fu Company of America, Inc., 10939 N. Pomona Ave., Kansas City, MO 64153 / http://heinwerner-automotive.com/ / est. 1919 (as Milwaukee Circulating Pump and Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, WI) /

Milwaukee / Milwaukee Tool & Equipment Co. Inc., 2773 S. 29th St., Milwaukee, WI 53246 / vises, anvils, pipe wrenches, jacks, c-clamps /

Walker / Walker Mfg. Co., Racine, WI / automotive jacks / patent 1437606 Dec 5 1922 Joseph J. Mizer & Victor Jakob & patent Mar 11 1924 & patent 1621314 Mar 15 1927 Irwin E. Dearsley & 3218980 Nov 23 1965 Lyle L. Arnes

Weiler & Smith / Weiler & Smith Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, WI / inc. 1903 / automotive jack / patent / wrenchwikiu-s-jack-company/ /

* there may well be other Wisconsin-based jack manufacturers that I do not have included in THE LIST.

"Jack" is not a genre our friend at Alloy-Artifacts focuses on. Jethro at wrenchwiki has a smattering of information on his site. It's a genre I just recently focused on to get the patent information up on datamp.org, but unfortunately I have found there is a dearth of information available on the web.
International Tool Catalog Library does have some resource material available.

I have harvested thousands of catalog pages and magazine ads from the web, and started to post some until I realized I'd be here all day and it would still be a needle-in-a-haystack/process-of-elimination search.
Can you see if you can get more information off that brass plate? Hold it in different light? Pour some water or other liquid on it to see if you can make out any detail?

I'm somewhat at a loss on this one.

keep this link handy

as well as this one.

 

[wvhuntandfishtoo]

I appreciate the info. I wish I could get a better photo of the label, but don't have the jack in hand. I wish I did so I could read what the darn thing said

 

[BrandonV]

Looks like another Walker I saw once. The 18 is not the ton rating but rather the maximum height.

The EP is the end of Walker.

Someone else's photo I found online.

 

[four.cycle]

Thank you @BrandonV

at least we have a starting point now. let's see what we've got.....

WALKER at International Tool Catalog Library