Fraim Automatic Padlock

[BobinSouthVA]

Well found this one a few years ago and did not think much about it. Was pulling out some old relics for cleaning and thought I'd look up the pantent and do a search for it. All I could really find was this guys youtube video and in the info he says "this little padlock is sought by locknuts the world over"




Anyone know what its worth or can find any more info about it. Maybe I'll throw it in the WII forum as well.

Thanks

 

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[Mackaydon]

The lock was letter patented to G.W. Werner and assigned to Edward T. Fraim on March 10,1896. Werner called his lock "Keystone"; maybe Fraim simply changed the name to "Autoamatic" after he received the letter patent.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=EfFQAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&zoom=4&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

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