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Two-piece casting

Patent drawing of a 19th-century screw wrench showing a two-part cast construction with a sliding jaw, a threaded adjustment screw with thumb piece, a wooden handle, and several cross-sectional detail views of the jaw halves and bar.

Wrench.Joseph Hyde · November 23, 1858

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