Lufkin (brand)

Lufkin

Type	none; solely a brand
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	Cleveland, Ohio, USA (1869)
Headquarters	Houston, Texas, USA
Products	Professional Hand Tools
Website	www.cooperhandtools.com

For the manufacturer of heavy equipment in Lufkin, Texas, see Lufkin Industries.

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 in Cleveland, Ohio 1869 and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company.

The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries.

The Lufkin Rule Company plant in Saginaw, Michigan as it was circa 1918.

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 

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