Stienadler monkey/pipe wrench

[coolford]

I traded for this wrench last week.  In the first picture it is in pipe configuration.  In the second picture it is in monkey configuration.  In the last picture the part that does the transformation I have moved to the middle so you can see it. The wrench also has a wire cutter on the top.  It is a DRGN wrench from Germany, No.1 and has a falcon trademark.  I had not seen this configuration for a monkey/pipe before.

[Danks]

Hi Coolford, You Did Good, that sure looks like one very nice early version of the combination monkey/pipe Wrench. I have a newer version of the same type as yours, also by Stienadler. Cheers Danks

[coolford]

Nice, its an interesting wrench and I'm wondering if any other maker used the same idea.

[mvwcnews]

A few U.S. patents had some type of "sliding intermediate jaw"   The earliest in the DATAMP category of "pipe & nut combination wrenches" is patent no. 474,987 (not known to have been produced).  S. M. Friede patent no. 525,684 is the STAR combination nut & pipe wrench with screw adjustable intermediate jaw having flat face on one side, and slanted face with pipe gripping teeth on the other.  The nearest to the slim sliding intermediate jaw in STEINADLER (S#767) is J. E. Wakefield patent no. 886,448 which  is a screw adjusted "auto monkey wrench" type with sliding intermediate jaw (most are missing that intermediate jaw as it ate up working space)  Some of the Wakefield patent wrenches are also marked "FAIRBANKS GAS & GASOLENE ENGINES." (S#559).

[coolford]

Now I know, thanks for the info.