{"id":4087,"date":"2024-09-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2024-09-13T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T02:44:22","slug":"september-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"September 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 13, 1870, U.S. Patent No. 107,304 title “Wrench” issued to Daniel C. Stillson (1826-1899), a mechanic at the Walworth Company, in Cambridge, Massachusetts:<\/p>\n\n\n

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This was improvement to the original pipe wrench that Stillson patented on October 12, 1869, (U.S. Patent No. 95,744):<\/p>\n\n\n

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In some places pipe wrenches are still called “Stillsons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stillson’s pipe wrench is often confused with a monkey wrench, but (1) a pipe wrench usually has serrated or toothed jaws; (2) the upper jaw moves on a pipe wrench, while it is the lower jaw that moves on a monkey wrench; (3) the handle of a monkey wrench is usually round and made of wood; and (4) while monkey wrenches are more versatile, pipe wrenches (because of the serrated jas, grip pipes better.
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On September 13, 1870, U.S. Patent No. 107,304 title “Wrench” issued to Daniel C. Stillson (1826-1899), a mechanic at the Walworth Company, in Cambridge, Massachusetts: This was improvement to the original pipe wrench that Stillson patented on October 12, 1869, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}