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Oil well tool

Patent drawing showing four views of hinged pipe tongs with triangular jaws, a sliding yoke, and long handles used to grip and turn oil-well tubing.

IMPROVEMENT IN TUBING-TONGSLemuel W. Young · September 2, 1879

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