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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 ]
The current design of pliers was developed and popularized by the Champion–DeArment Tool Company in 1934 under the brand name Channellock (after which the company was later renamed) [6] but are also now produced by a number of other manufacturers.
Klein Tools was founded in 1857 in Chicago, Illinois by German immigrant Mathias Klein. [8] The first tool Klein made was a pair of side-cutting pliers for a telegraph lineman . [ 9 ] The company grew as the telegraph and eventually telephone and electrical industries grew after the Civil War by adding 100 types of pliers in the 1910s.
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.
In 1882, James Harvey Williams and Matthew Diamond founded Williams & Diamond in Flushing, Queens, a drop forging business. [2] The business was relocated to Brooklyn in 1884 and took the name J.H. Williams & Co in 1887.
Craftsman is a line of tools, lawn and garden equipment, and work wear.Originally a house brand established by Sears, the brand is now owned by Stanley Black & Decker.. As with all Sears products, Craftsman tools were not manufactured by Sears during the company's ownership, but made under contract by various other companies.