Lufkin (brand)

Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is currently a brand of Cooper Industries.

History

The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry^[2] in Cleveland, Ohio 1869^[1] and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company.

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 Feb 13, 1883 
• US 272892, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", issued February 27, 1883 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "(advertisement)". Popular Science (Bonnier Corporation) 171 (3): 221. September 1957. ISSN 0161-7370. http://books.google.com/?id=Ci0DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA2&pg=PA221 
2. ^ 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 
3. ^ Hoover's Handbook of American Business (5th ed.). Austin, Texas: Hoover's Business Press. 1995. p. 394. ISBN 9781878753656 

External links

• Brand home page at Cooper Tools
• Scanned copies of historical Lufkin catalogs at Rose Antique Tools
• The Lufkin Rule Company Origins, a genealogy page about Edward Taylor Lufkin at the Internet Archive