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 around 1907 and later at Barrie, Ontario around 1948.[3][4] 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,[5] 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. ^ https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/lufkin-rule-building-could-be-next-heritage-structure-to-fall
4. ^ https://omeka.uottawa.ca/instrument-precision/items/show/2272
5. ^ 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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