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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 ]
Snap-on Industrial Brands, historically J.H. Williams Tool Group, is a division of American hand tool manufacturer Snap-on that makes and distributes tools to industrial markets. In addition to the Williams brand from which it originated, the group includes Bahco and CDI Torque Products .
Originally developed as a blacksmiths tool, patented in 1899 Canada under CA64246A [4] by Vernon Graham Higgins and sold out of Fortuna, California by the patentee. . Advertised in the November 1899 issue of "The Blacksmith and Wheelwright", [5] an American periodical; the original variants had longer reins than the modern equivalent, and may not have had the groves in
Some locking pliers have a lever (on lower arm, right) to aid release from the locked position. The first locking pliers, with the trade name Vise-Grip, were invented by William S. Petersen in De Witt, Nebraska, United States in 1924.
Kobalt is a line of hand and mechanics' tools, power tools, and tool storage products owned by the American home improvement chain Lowe's. It is the house brand for both Lowe's in North America and their joint venture with the now defunct Masters Home Improvement in Australia .
Easco Hand Tools was an American manufacturer of hand tools. It is best known for being the main supplier of mechanic's tools for the Craftsman brand. Its tools were also sold under the Allen and KD Tools brands after its acquisition by Danaher Corporation. The brand name was gradually phased out by Danaher.
SK Hand Tools (styled earlier as S-K, now usually SK) is a tool company located in Sycamore, Illinois, with additional manufacturing facilities in China, Taiwan, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. [1] Outlets for their products include independent tool-truck dealers, auto parts stores, and major internet vendors such as Sears and Amazon.com .
Apex Tool Group is an American supplier of hand tools and power tools. It was formed as a joint venture of Cooper Industries and Danaher by the merger of Cooper Tools and Danaher's Tools and Components segment.