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Crescent is a brand of hand tools. It originated with the Crescent Tool Company, founded in 1907. The Crescent brand has changed ownership multiple times. It is currently owned by Apex Tool Group, LLC of Sparks, Maryland as part of its Hand Tools division. It is best known for its style of adjustable wrench. [1] [2]
The term wrench is generally used for tools that turn non-fastening devices (e.g. tap wrench and pipe wrench), or may be used for a monkey wrench—an adjustable pipe wrench. [1] In North American English, wrench is the standard term. The most common shapes are called open-end wrench and box-end wrench.
An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), also called a shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand) [1] or adjustable wrench (US and Canada), [a] is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.
Manufacturer Headquarters Brands Products Altendorf GmbH: Minden, Germany: Altendorf: Table saws, panel saws: Andreas Stihl AG & Company KG: Waiblingen, Germany: Stihl, Viking [1]: Outdoor power equipment [2]
Crescent (brand), a brand of tools after which the Crescent wrench takes its name; Crescent (bicycle), a Swedish bicycle brand manufactured by Nymanbolagen (later Monark-Crescentbolagen) Crescent Arms, a firearms manufacturer bought by Savage Arms; Crescent Capital Group, a private American investment firm; Crescent Enterprises, a conglomerate ...
A needle file set. A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. [1] Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives.
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Some Sears Craftsman Professional products lines (such as the former USA made Professional wrench line) were made by the Armstrong Division of Danaher and were virtually the same units, save for the stamping of the different names. In 1994, Armstrong was acquired by the Danaher Corporation, where it operated as its industrial hand tools division.