Is this a saw?

[Ontwowheels]

Can anyone ID this tool please. It is branded ANYCUT. The bar is lightly sprung loaded. It looks like a piece is broken and missing, possibly a clamp, on the top left. A hacksaw blade will slide through but would be upside down and the bar is thicker than a hacksaw blade.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Can anyone ID this tool please. It is branded ANYCUT. The bar is lightly sprung loaded. It looks like a piece is broken and missing, possibly a clamp, on the top left. A hacksaw blade will slide through but would be upside down and the bar is thicker than a hacksaw blade.

You will have to wait till RTM gets here. With the Patent numbers being #696 715 .

 

[RTM]

You will have to wait till RTM gets here. With the Patent numbers being #696 715 .

That's not a correct patent number. Might be a category, or something. More later.

Looks like the Aussie company Vauxhall Products made it, and it is a Hacksaw Frame.

ANYCUT - Directory of Australian Makers Database Search - Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

Search the list of Australian Hand Tool Makers

www.htpaa.org.au

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

That's not a correct patent number. Might be a category, or something. More later.

Looks like the Aussie company Vauxhall Products made it, and it is a Hacksaw Frame.

ANYCUT - Directory of Australian Makers Database Search - Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

Search the list of Australian Hand Tool Makers

www.htpaa.org.au

Great job.

 

[Roberts210]

I'll be derned, it IS a saw. I looked at the first few pics and thought, "Wha tha' 'ell IS that thing?" But once the hack saw blade was fitted, it was obvious what it is.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Handle doesn’t make sense to me.

 

[Ontwowheels]

A hacksaw blade fits in but it doesn't really work. Notice that the bar slides back against a light spring.

 

[RTM]

Digging deeper with a real computer instead of my phone. Looks like Vauxhall Products existed from at least 1948 - 2000.

They had a 1951ish patent for a digging tool.

There seem to be no correct patent numbers stamped on the tool. Putting in the number and the country gets me nothing.


The Vauxhall motor car really confounds this search.

 

[Old Man Roger]

In order for it to be a hack saw, the brown part would be the handle, right? It just doesn’t make sense to me that they would have such a non ergonomic handle. I feel like its some sort of a guide.

 

[Ontwowheels]

Photo showing handle size, which is small (and Bakelite). I have inserted a hacksaw blade to show it could be used as a pull saw with the possibly missing clamp to adjust the unsupported length of blade. But it doesn't really need the bar or, especially, the spring.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Photo showing handle size, which is small (and Bakelite). I have inserted a hacksaw blade to show it could be used as a pull saw with the possibly missing clamp to adjust the unsupported length of blade. But it doesn't really need the bar or, especially, the spring.

The things that make you say mmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Ya, no. I ain’t buying it.

 

[The Bean]

Aw cmon Roger. There's a buyer for everything. Lol.

 

[four.cycle]

Sorry about that, @RTM - I wasn't aware you'd already given chase on this one.
Jeff sent me a *.pdf earlier and he pinned it to a guy in Australia.
You guys are amazing.

 

[RTM]

So, the number stamped for AUS is the actual number.

AU2407945A - Improved hacksaw frame - Google Patents

On my phone, can't dig deeper til later


Here are two more by him

FR934831A - Advanced saw frame - Google Patents

CA468989A - Hacksaws - Google Patents

 

[Old Man Roger]

None of the links show me any pictures. Is the way he’s holding it look correct? It just seems like a crappy handle, and what’s the point of the spring?

 

[txvwnut]

None of the links show me any pictures. Is the way he’s holding it look correct? It just seems like a crappy handle, and what’s the point of the spring?

Its for limited access cutting with a hacksaw blade. You clamp the blade in the handle then rest the steel part against the edge of whatever you are cutting and push the handle into the cut, the spring loaded metal part is to keep the blade straight while making the cut. They have the blade in upside down in the picture. I have a much newer version of this and it's been quite handy when needed.

 

[RTM]

None of the links show me any pictures. Is the way he’s holding it look correct? It just seems like a crappy handle, and what’s the point of the spring?

The non US patents don’t have images, typically

 

[Old Man Roger]

So it would only cut in one direction?

 

[Debcrow]

So it would only cut in one direction?

You have a hacksaw blade that cuts in two directions?

 

[john.k]

Id say the odd shape of the handle is to do with the available mold making technology..............patent date is 1945 ,and at that time you could sell anything,if you could get it made ........post war shortages.

 

[Old Man Roger]

You have a hacksaw blade that cuts in two directions?

Ok hair splitter, what I mean is the spring is very light, wouldn’t that make the blade push back in?

And by the way, much like a file, do kind of cut in both directions, just better in one than he other.

 

[Ontwowheels]

Thanks very much four.cycle and RTM. That information makes a difference to add to the tool collection. See photo with the blade the correct way round. It is missing the clamp, I will have to construct something. Steve W

 

[Ontwowheels]

Ooops, before anyone comments, the blade in the photo is the right way up but the wrong way round as it is a pull saw.

 

[Old Man Roger]

lol.

So there’s supposed to be a clamp that holds it in place?

 

[Ontwowheels]

From the patent drawing supplied by four.cycle there is a wingnut etc.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Ahhhhh.