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  2. DeVilbiss Automotive Refinishing - Wikipedia

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    DeVilbiss Automotive Refinishing is an American manufacturer of spray guns, airbrushes, and related products for paint and lacquer coating applications. The company was founded in 1907 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, US.

  3. MAT Holdings - Wikipedia

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    The main company was founded in 1984. In 1999 Devilbiss Air Power Co. was acquired by Pentair. [1] Pentair sold the company to Black & Decker in 2004. [2] [3] Following the 2010 merger of Stanley Works and Black and Decker, the new Stanley Black & Decker sold DeVilbiss Air Power to MAT Holdings on March 31, 2011. [4]

  4. Detonation spraying - Wikipedia

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    It was first invented in 1955 by H.B. Sargent, R.M. Poorman and H. Lamprey and is applied to a component using a specifically designed detonation gun (D-gun). The component being sprayed must be prepared correctly by removing all surface oils, greases, debris and roughing up the surface in order to achieve a strongly bonded detonation spray ...

  5. Flit gun - Wikipedia

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    FLIT manual spray pump for insecticides from 1928. A Flit gun is a hand-pumped insecticide sprayer used to dispense FLIT, a brand-name insecticide widely used against flies and mosquitoes between 1928 and the mid-1950s. Although named after the well-known brand, "Flit gun" became a generic name for this type of dispenser. [1]

  6. Graco Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Russell Gray, a Minneapolis parking lot attendant, founded Gray Company, Inc. in 1926 with his brother Leil Gray to produce and sell Russell's air-powered grease gun, invented in response to cold weather making hand-powered grease guns inoperable. [3] Sales their first year of operation were $35,000. [3] By 1941, annual sales had reached $1 ...

  7. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Manual Safeties are the oldest forms of "active" safety mechanism and are widely used; however, many "double-action" firearms such as revolvers do not have manual safeties as the longer, harder trigger pull to cock and fire double-action provides adequate trigger safety, while keeping the firearm in a more ready state.

  8. Nail gun - Wikipedia

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    A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a form of hammer used to drive nails into wood or other materials. It is usually driven by compressed air , electromagnetism, highly flammable gases such as butane or propane, or, for powder-actuated tools, a small explosive charge. Nail guns have in many ways replaced hammers as tools of choice among builders.

  9. Ear piercing instrument - Wikipedia

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    A piercing gun. An ear-piercing instrument (commonly referred to as a piercing gun or an ear-piercing gun) is a device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed starter stud through the lobe. Piercing guns are typically used for ear piercing in mall jewelry shops, beauty salons, pharmacies, and doctors' offices.