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    Posted 8 years ago

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    GeorgeT
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    Antique tool. Does anyone know what this was used for?
    It is well over 100 yrs. old and has the name A. J. Settle patten applied for. It was used to bind something but nobody that i have showed it to can figure out what it was used for.

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      OK Thomas, what is a "jack for shaft coupling" ? Like, drive shaft ?
    2. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      Looks like it is made for separating a tire from the rim to me.
    3. GeorgeT, 8 years ago
      Thank you Brunswick! That is a lot more info than any other person has come up with.
    4. GeorgeT, 8 years ago
      I think if it was used as a tire separator the two half circles on each end would be going in the same direction. They are opposite. If you had to press on a very tight coupler, I could see how it would help. Still seems like a weird tool! Lol I have a cousin who is machinist, I will run the coupler jack theory by him. Thanks again
    5. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      For separating sheep that are coupling or helping them ?
    6. UncleRon UncleRon, 8 years ago
      Ignore the previous post. I tried to embed the OCR text of the patent description in this post but as I suspected, it didn't work. I found the same reference that Brunswick noted above. The brief description of the patent, as printed in the "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents - 1965", certainly describes this device to a "T", but it only refers to "the purpose stated herein" on which it does not elaborate. It gives a patent number (48984) which would be from 1865 but the number does not return a patent through google. No combination of words, numbers, or dates that I tried in Google Patents returned the actual PATENT itself. It has something to do with holding a shaft to make an adjusted but it doesn’t say on what device.
    7. GeorgeT, 8 years ago
      Thanks, I guess all the people that have ever used one of these are on the wrong side of the grass. Lol

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