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2. Husky (tool brand) - Wikipedia

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   Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest name in tools."

3. Hex key - Wikipedia

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   The idea of a hex socket screw drive was probably conceived as early as the 1860s to the 1890s, but such screws were probably not manufactured until around 1910. Rybczynski (2000) describes a flurry of patents for alternative drive types in the 1860s to the 1890s in the U.S., [2] which are confirmed to include internal-wrenching square and triangle types (that is, square and triangular sockets ...

4. List of screw drives - Wikipedia

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   A square screw drive uses four-sided fastener heads which can be turned with an adjustable wrench, open-end wrench, or 8- or 12-point [69] sockets. Common in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when it was easier and cheaper to manufacture than most other drives, it is less common today (although still easy to find) because the external hex is ...

5. Allen (brand) - Wikipedia

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   The terms "Allen wrench" (American English, though "Allen key" is also common in the US) and "Allen key" (British English) [3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys". W.G. Allen [4] filed the first related patent in 1909 for its recessed hex-driven safety screws, [5] a safety improvement over ...

6. Easco Hand Tools - Wikipedia

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   This acquisition made the tools division the largest part of Danaher. [5] In 1991, Sears selected Danaher to be the exclusive supplier of Craftsman mechanic's tools. [6] In 2010, Danaher merged its tools division with Cooper Tools to form Apex Tool Group. In 2013, Apex closed the Gastonia, North Carolina plant where Easco manufactured sockets ...

7. Set screw - Wikipedia

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   Isometric projection of a grub screw with a hex socket head.. Set screws are not always the best way to resist the torque of driven shafts. To reduce the chance of slipping and to increase load capacity, a detent (often called a "flat") may be milled or ground at the part of the shaft where the set screw's point contacts.