TRIMO 24" pipe wrench

[bitbuster]

My brother and I have total access to land that once had a junkyard. We've been taking various sized electric motors and removing the copper windings. Last week I found this Trimo pipe wrench. It was filthy and terribly rusted with no parts moving. My brother let it soak for 3 days in a Coke and cider vinegar solution. Yes, I know original color was not red, but black. Patent date is 3-15-18 but could have been made anytime up to 1954.Can anyone give a more precise date?

http://imgur.com/a/wk8Uk

 

[four.cycle]

check your patent date again

http://www.datamp.org/qsDate.php

site says March 15, 1918 was a Friday, and patents are only issued on Tuesdays. (who knew?)

only thing the patent number (or date) will tell you is when the patent was issued; it's not necessarily an indicator of when the item was actually made:

1917 Pacific Hardware & Steel Co. catalog Stillson Trimo Wrench ad pp 83 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1930 Simmons Hardware Co. catalog Trimo Stillson Winchester Keen Kutter ad pp 179 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1930 Simmons Hardware Co. catalog Trimo Stillson Winchester Keen Kutter ad pp 180 by four.cycle, on Flickr

 

[Roberts210]

Outstanding find and great job on resurrecting it.

 

[woody 73]

Not much help but an older post of mine.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334941

 

[d42jeep]

By 1935 they were marked Alloy with a small CroMol on the moveable jaw. It seems that yours would be earlier.
-Don

 

[Richard Cranium]

neat find. Keep looking, there is more out there to be found.