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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: dowdstools on July 24, 2011, 01:15:56 PM

Title: Cochran Pipe Wrench
Post by: dowdstools on July 24, 2011, 01:15:56 PM

I normally don't pay much attention to pipe wrenches, but this one was different enough that it appealed to me.

(http://dowdstools.com/ebayimages/cochranwr1.jpg)
(http://dowdstools.com/ebayimages/cochranwr2.jpg)
(http://dowdstools.com/ebayimages/cochranwr3.jpg)


Lynn

Title: Re: Cochran Pipe Wrench
Post by: jimwrench on July 24, 2011, 02:01:23 PM

 Nice find. This company also made the Cochran Speednut wrench which are quite common but hadn't seen the pipe wrench. This 1908 patented wrench predates the speed wrench by about 8 years.

Title: Re: Cochran Pipe Wrench
Post by: rusty on July 24, 2011, 04:08:42 PM

Very nice : )

Just as a comment, the 1912 patent shown the nut going the other way....
(The 1908 patent sorta hints at it, but isn't clear...)

[The way it is now, the bevel edge is supporting the jaw...]

It's funny, in as much as the company name was the Cochran pipe wrench manufacturing co, that pipe wrenches hardly ever turn up...go figure.