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| Product type | Tape measure |
|---|---|
| Owner | Apex Tool Group (2010) |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1869 |
| Previous owners | Cooper Industries (1967) |
| Website | lufkintool |
Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group.
History[edit]
The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry[1] in Cleveland, Ohio 1869[2] and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company. Its Canada-based plant was in Barrie, Ontario.
The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries.[3]
Innovations[edit]
Throughout its history Lufkin patented a variety of devices and manufacturing processes.
- US 149321, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Improvement in Board Measures", issued April 7, 1874
- US 272279, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Headed Lumber Rule", issued February 13, 1883
- US 272892, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", issued February 27, 1883
Gallery[edit]
The Lufkin Rule Company plant in Saginaw, Michigan as it was c.1918
Lufkin tape measure
References[edit]
- ^ History of Lorain County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers. 1879. p. 96. OCLC 54440022.
- ^ "(advertisement)". Popular Science. Vol. 171, no. 3. Bonnier Corporation. September 1957. p. 221. ISSN 0161-7370.
- ^ Hoover's Handbook of American Business (5th ed.). Austin, Texas: Hoover's Business Press. 1995. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-878753-65-6.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive
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