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2. Channellock - Wikipedia

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   Channellock is an American company that produces hand tools. It is best known for its pliers —the company manufactures more than 75 types and sizes of pliers [ 1 ] —particularly its eponymous style of tongue-and-groove , slip-joint pliers. [ 2 ]

3. 73 Brands That Are Still Made Right Here in the USA - AOL

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   Founded in 1886 and based in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Channellock is a leading maker of must-have pliers and other hand tools for professionals and DIYers. It employs more than 300 people. It ...

4. Tongue-and-groove pliers - Wikipedia

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   Parrot pliers are a type of slip-joint pliers. They are also known as: plumbing pliers, Channellocks (i.e., Channellock brand pliers), water pump pliers, groove-joint pliers, arc-joint pliers, Multi-Grips, tap or pipe spanners, swan neck pliers. Monkey pliers.

5. Pliers - Wikipedia

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   Special tools for making crimp connections in electrical and electronic applications are often called crimping pliers or crimpers; each type of connection uses its own dedicated tool. Parallel pliers have jaws that close in parallel to each other, as opposed to the scissor-type action of traditional pliers.

6. Locking pliers - Wikipedia

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   The first locking pliers, with the trade name Vise-Grip, were invented by William S. Petersen in De Witt, Nebraska, United States in 1924. [1] [2] Later, in 1955, in the United Kingdom, M K Mole and Son, a hand tool manufacturing company, under the managing direction of Thomas Coughtrie, began making nearly identical pliers.

7. Proto (tools) - Wikipedia

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   Proto Tools (formally Stanley Proto) is an American industrial hand tool company. Founded as Plomb , it is presently a division of Stanley Black & Decker . The company is credited with creating the first combination wrench in 1933.