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Irwin was founded in 1885 in Martinsville, Ohio as the Irwin Auger Bit Company by Charles Irwin, a pharmacist. Irwin had bought the rights to a solid-center auger bit from a local blacksmith. [3] In 1924, another blacksmith, Danish immigrant William Petersen of DeWitt, Nebraska, invented the first locking pliers [4] and named them Vise-Grips. [5]
Locking pliers (also called Vise-Grips, Mole wrench or Mole grips) are pliers that can be locked into position, using an "over-center" cam action. Locking pliers are available with many different jaw styles, such as needle-nose pliers, wrenches, clamps and various shapes to fix metal parts for welding.
In 1993 American Tool acquired Irwin Industrial. The company operated under the Irwin Industrial name beginning in 2002 when it was purchased by Newell Rubbermaid . [1] On October 31, 2008, the plant was closed and 330 jobs were lost when manufacturing of Vise-Grips and other tools moved to China.
After the Greenfield factory burned down, the company was reorganized as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Co. [1] It merged with Backus Vise Co. in 1872 to form Millers Falls Co.. [ 3 ] In 1931 Millers Falls tools purchased the majority of the shares of Goodell-Pratt tools and merged with that manufacturer in 1932.
Aircraft Spruce Co. was founded in 1965 by Bob and Flo Irwin as a follow-on to founding Fullerton Air Parts. [1] Initially the company sold only one product: aircraft grade spruce lumber for aircraft construction and restoration. Aircraft Spruce Co. added more products and adopted the name Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co.
A bench vise, B machine vise, C hand vise. A vise or vice (British English) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it.Vises have two parallel jaws, one fixed and the other movable, threaded in and out by a screw and lever.