Lufkin (brand)

Measuring devices marketed by Apex Tools

For the manufacturer of heavy equipment in Lufkin, Texas, see Lufkin Industries.

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.

## History

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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 Canadian manufacturing plant was first at Windsor, Ontario and later at Barrie, Ontario. The company's headquarters and chief U.S. manufacturing plant later moved to Saginaw, Michigan, and remained there for decades.

The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries,[3] which aimed to create a stable of hand tools brands through acquisitions. The Saginaw plant was soon closed and a new plant in Apex, North Carolina became the chief U.S. manufacturing plant.

The brand was a member of the Cooper Tools group until that group was sold off to form Apex Tool Group in 2012 and Cooper Industries was acquired by Eaton Corporation.

## Innovations

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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

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

* Lufkin tape measure

## References

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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.
2. ^ "(advertisement)". Popular Science. Vol. 171, no. 3\. Bonnier Corporation. September 1957. p. 221\. ISSN 0161-7370.
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

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lufkin (brand).

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

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