Lufkin (brand)

Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group.

For the manufacturer of heavy equipment in Lufkin, Texas, see Lufkin Industries.
Lufkin
Product typeTape measure
OwnerApex Tool Group (2010)
CountryUnited States
Introduced1869
Previous ownersCooper Industries (1967)
Websitelufkintool.com

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.

  • 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
  • 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: 96. OCLC 54440022. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "(advertisement)". Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. 171 (3): 221. September 1957. 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.


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