UPSON BROS INC Hold E-Zee Flat Slotted Straight Screwdriver 14"

Description

Good pre-owned condition. See photos for condition details. Approximately 14"
"Mr. Velepec assigned his patent to the Haines Manufacturing Corporation ofRochester which had been incorporated in 1920 "to manufacture, buy and deal in automobile accessories, etc." The directors included Millard C. Upson and Merrell A. Upson. At some point in the next decade, they must have gone off on their own and formed Upson Brothers, Incorporated with headquarters on Exchange Street in Rochester. Over the following years they were assigned patents for such things as an "anti-rattling device" for sliding car windows (Patent 2047047 in 1936) and a "tire valve manipulating instrument" (Des. 126,572 granted in 1941). Of importance to the present story, Mr. Velepec patented improvements to his screw driver in 1931, and assigned the patent to the Upson Brothers Inc. Although the idea had first received a patent in 1927, the product itself does not appear to have entered the wider consumer market until 1948 when an ad appeared in Popular Science:
Although they were already using the name, the following year, Upson Bros. filed for the "Hold-E-Zee" trademark (which was granted in 1950)."
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