Lufkin (brand)

Short description: Measuring devices marketed by Apex Tools

Lufkin

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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Innovations
* 3 Gallery
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

Early Lufkin logo

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.

* Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Improvement in Board Measures", US patent 149321, issued April 7, 1874
* Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Headed Lumber Rule", US patent 272279, issued February 13, 1883
* Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", US patent 272892, issued February 27, 1883

## Gallery

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

* Lufkin tape measure

## References

1. ↑ 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. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Lorain/LorainCXVIP90.htm.
2. ↑ "(advertisement)". Popular Science (Bonnier Corporation) 171 (3): 221. September 1957. ISSN 0161-7370. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ci0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA221.
3. ↑ 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

* The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive

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