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Join Date: Jan 2005
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FOUND IT
patented in 1903 and replaced in production in 1912 with more modern design

link to patent #751055

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT751055
drawing
http://www.google.com/patents?id=vrksAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1

up dated patent

Patent number: RE12379
Filing date: Apr 15, 1905
Issue date: Aug 15, 1905
Inventor: CAMILLE CONTAL

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATRE12379
drawing
http://www.google.com/patents?id=xTMiAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA24

"Auto-Cle" from the Quincy, Manchester, Sargent Company

751,055 81/58.3 C. Contal [Used for AUTO-CLE sets] 10/15/1903 02/02/1904 Ratchet wrench set

Sargent Co bought by Frank Mossberg in 1908 , he was a notable inventor and businessman in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and owner of Frank Mossberg Co the maker of my tool set

in 1912 Frank Mossberg patented a more modern ratchet and sometime afterwards droped production of my tool set date it to about 1910 + or - a few years

link to mossberg co history

http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-arti...ml#mossberg-350

GOT TO LOVE THE INTERNET FOR THIS KIND OF INFO


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