woody 73
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Strange how items come to me when I least expect it, standing in an open garage filled with other treasure hunters I happened to look up and hanging in the rafter above I spotted this ratchet hanging on a rusty nail. I guess you could say it was calling my name.
US Patent # 2,686,582 was the brain child of two men William H. Odlum of Wilmette, IL and William F. Hosford of Chicago, Il. The Pat. was applied on Mar. 22, 1952 and it was Granted on Aug. 17,1954. For a Reversible drive mechanism for a ratchet.
If the names sound kind of familiar well lets just say that William H. Odlum started the Duro company.
I sent a special pm to ckadams00 and I said could you check into both of these men and dig up any info and did he ever, a treasure trove of information started to flow like the Hoover dam. So many special thanks to ckadams00 fior all his help in making this story possible.
William H. Odlum was born on June, 12, 1883 in Illinois the child of an Irish immigrant Father and his Mother was from Illinois. William married Rosalie Francis Swift age 25 in Sept. 1907 in Chicago,ILL. William died in Mar. 1974.
The hunt for William F. Hosford took an amazing twist & turn not a ton of information because first we must make a guess that we have the right man and second we must hunt through a lot of information.
William Fuller Hosford was born on May 30,1882 in Ill. but no date was listed when he died, and an unknown spot for the grave. His WWI draft card for Sept. 12, 1918 has him living in Oak Park ILL. and he is the assistant supervisor the western Electric Co. He married Marjorie Fraser in July 2, 1913 and she was born on April 22, 1888.
I have a few links for you to look over a few pictures and again many thanks to ckadams00 for all his hard work with helping me bring these stories to light.
http://datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=2686582&typeCode=0
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&idkey=NONE&SectionNum=3&HomeUrl=&docid=2686582
https://www.google.com/patents/US26...ved=0ahUKEwi_2t3M28rSAhVh5oMKHYIgCpwQ6AEIHDAA
http://www.datamp.org/patents/search/xrefPerson.php?id=14778
http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=270&tab=7
US Patent # 2,686,582 was the brain child of two men William H. Odlum of Wilmette, IL and William F. Hosford of Chicago, Il. The Pat. was applied on Mar. 22, 1952 and it was Granted on Aug. 17,1954. For a Reversible drive mechanism for a ratchet.
If the names sound kind of familiar well lets just say that William H. Odlum started the Duro company.
I sent a special pm to ckadams00 and I said could you check into both of these men and dig up any info and did he ever, a treasure trove of information started to flow like the Hoover dam. So many special thanks to ckadams00 fior all his help in making this story possible.
William H. Odlum was born on June, 12, 1883 in Illinois the child of an Irish immigrant Father and his Mother was from Illinois. William married Rosalie Francis Swift age 25 in Sept. 1907 in Chicago,ILL. William died in Mar. 1974.
The hunt for William F. Hosford took an amazing twist & turn not a ton of information because first we must make a guess that we have the right man and second we must hunt through a lot of information.
William Fuller Hosford was born on May 30,1882 in Ill. but no date was listed when he died, and an unknown spot for the grave. His WWI draft card for Sept. 12, 1918 has him living in Oak Park ILL. and he is the assistant supervisor the western Electric Co. He married Marjorie Fraser in July 2, 1913 and she was born on April 22, 1888.
I have a few links for you to look over a few pictures and again many thanks to ckadams00 for all his hard work with helping me bring these stories to light.
http://datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=2686582&typeCode=0
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&idkey=NONE&SectionNum=3&HomeUrl=&docid=2686582
https://www.google.com/patents/US26...ved=0ahUKEwi_2t3M28rSAhVh5oMKHYIgCpwQ6AEIHDAA
http://www.datamp.org/patents/search/xrefPerson.php?id=14778
http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=270&tab=7
