Lufkin (brand)

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For the manufacturer of heavy equipment in Lufkin, Texas, see Lufkin Industries.
Lufkin
File:Early Lufkin logo.svg
Early Lufkin logo
Product type Tape measure
Owner Apex Tool Group (2010)
Country United States
Introduced 1869
Previous owners Cooper Industries (1967)
Website lufkintool.com

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

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

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

  • Lufkin Rule Company plant, 1918.png

    The Lufkin Rule Company plant in Saginaw, Michigan as it was c.1918

  • Lufkin Universal 50 ft tape measure.jpg

    Lufkin tape measure

References

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