on its periphery and hub portions of reduced diameter on each side a centrally disposed rectangular opening is provided in which a double acting lead screw is mounted a pair of jaws are threadedly mounted on the lead screw for movement toward or away from each other dependent upon the direction of rotation of the lead screw a two piece body is provided which defines an elongated handle and two parallel spaced apart members which terminate in a generally circular enlarged ratchet holding head having circular openings in which the hub portions of the ratchet disk are received a pawl is provided for controlling the direction of ratchet movement application_number US 78650577 A description referring now to the drawings the wrench of the present invention is denoted generally by the reference numeral 10 it can be seen to include a main body 12 defining a handle 14 as best shown in fig2 of the drawings the body 12 is formed of two members 16a and 16b which are connected along parting line 18 and held fixed together by rivets 20a 20b and 20c when the members 16a and 16b are assembled as shown in fig2 the body includes two parallel spaced apart members 22a and 22b which terminate in a generally circular enlarged ratchet holding head 23 with each of the members 22a and 22b having apertures 24a and 24b formed therein for receiving for rotational movement a ratchet member 26 pawl 34 is provided for.