Linus Yale, Sr.

Linus Yale

Linus Yale
Born 27 April 1797
Middletown, Connecticut,
Died 8 August 1858
Newport, New York
Nationality American

Linus Yale, Sr. (27 April 1797 — 8 August 1858) was an American inventor and manufacturer of locks.

He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and later moved with his parents to Salisbury, New York. Yale opened a lock shop in the early 1840s in Newport (village), New York, specializing in bank locks. In 1850 his son, Linus Yale, Jr. joined him at the lock shop and began working on improving his father’s pin tumbler lock.

Patents by Linus Yale, Sr. from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

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