Hopefully Simple Whats It

[GopherDaGold]

Hopefully Simple What's It

I've had this attached to my shed for ages and cannot remember where I got it. I think it is a farming tool of some kind. Someone told me it was a fruit picker but I doubt it. It is all tube steel except for the claw and measures about 57" long. Pull the handle to close the claw end but it is not spring-loaded so you have to push the lever away from you to open it. The Patent is on the inside of the double claw.
Any guesses?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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Its a trashpickerupper. It looks like an antique version of the thing to pick up trash without bending over.

The patent doesnt seem to match.


http://www.google.com/patents?id=kx...gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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I think its 212521 but that doesnt match at all. Its from the late 1800's.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=a_...gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

[Breezie]

Re: Hopefully Simple What's It

I searched the patent number, and it was patented on February 18, 1879. Breezie

 

[GopherDaGold]

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Agree on the Patent discrepancy. Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) lists the Patent as a Tractor Pulley . I couldn't find anything else.
Breezie I saw that date you mentioned so I was a bit surprised to see that it was for a door sill and carpet strip.

 

[kyphote]

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Did Victorians pick up their trash? It's all I seem to find.

 

[GopherDaGold]

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It weighs about 6lbs. and comes up to my neck, (I'm 5'9") so it has a pretty good reach. Seems a bit heavy and cumbersome for a trash-picker-upper but I won't rule anything out yet.

I now see the number is 2125214 so I am going to research that. Tongs of some sort but I want more,

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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I should have said I was just guessing on the trash pick tool. It may be for fruit picking.

 

[Breezie]

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How about an Apple picker? Breezie

 

[nova treasure]

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Tongs used to remove clumps of Coal out of a furnace.

Bill

 

[GopherDaGold]

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My research shows them as 'tongs' invented by Apfel, Jacob F, and patented on 07/26/1938. That's all I found so I'll go with apple picker, TPU, (TrashPickerUpper) or anything requiring long steel tongs.

Solved. Thanks everyone!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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Tongs used to remove clumps of Coal out of a furnace.

Bill

Yep its for removing clinkers in a furnace. We couldnt see the last number 4 on the patent.

 

[trikikiwi]

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Great ID nova and BigCy

Mike

 

[GopherDaGold]

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Wow! And thanks BigCyp!! Where did you find that?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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Wow! And thanks BigCyp!! Where did you find that?

Its from google patent. Click on search patent. You can type in the patent number or you can type in key words like I did. I had been typing in the wrong patent mumbers at first. You need to save the page to post it.
http://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html