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265496 Cliff <rohrabacher@e...> 2018‑03‑19 Re: What is a flange bar?
That's a damn good what'sit

Doesn't even have a patent number  Closest ( in sorts of things and 
time) inventor I found was Vincent Sperti

Looks to me like that lug is meant to hook onto to something and the 
foot was meant to pull with the rest of the arm swiveling and it 
operates like a lever - - - but then the L & R sort of spoil that.
My guess is it's a tool for some gizmo that came and went pretty quickly 
so not even the gizmo it serves made much of an impression in history.

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