Datamp - 1089737 Metal Devices Corp Ratchet

[rusty]

A surprise today, another maker for this patent, and a better match to the drawing..

Marked "METAL DEVICES CORP/CHICAGO ILL"
and      " PATENTED MARCH 10 1914"

The head looks just like the Chicago Spec one, but the handle is different.
This thing is HUGE, it is 14" long and takes perhaps an inch drive socket (1+1/16, but it has the slot for a flat spring like the CS one) ... sadly , no sockets found with it....

May have an empty square as a forge mark, not certain, very faint, could be casting rubbish..

(Iron trade review, 1927 mentions Metal Devices Corp, Chicago assets being sold at auction Oct 4, 1927)
Apparently, the ratchet was not a HUGE success....)

[pa pete]

I have just acquired this ratchet also. The mold mark on mine looks like a square with an L inside. There are mid-letter dots between each of the words Metal Devices Corp. There is a number 1 before the word Patented.

[jimwrench]

 I think of Rusty ever once in a while and wonder what ever happened with him. Know PaPaw tried to contact him without success. Sure miss his patent searching knowhow.