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The first locking pliers, with the trade name Vise-Grip, were invented by William S. Petersen in De Witt, Nebraska, United States in 1924. [1] [2] Later, in 1955, in the United Kingdom, M K Mole and Son, a hand tool manufacturing company, under the managing direction of Thomas Coughtrie, began making nearly identical pliers.
Mole branded Self-grip wrench locking pliers. Thomas Robb Coughtrie (25 November 1917 – 27 August 2008) was a chartered engineer from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.. He was credited by The Times as the inventor of the self-grip Mole wrench [1] although this conflicts with other sources which show the invention of the Vise-Grip locking pliers [2] in Nebraska, United States, with an ...
In 1924, another blacksmith, Danish immigrant William Petersen of DeWitt, Nebraska, invented the first locking pliers [4] and named them Vise-Grips. [5] In 1934, Petersen formed the Petersen Manufacturing Company to produce them. [6] In 1957, Petersen added an easy-release trigger to the design, creating the modern locking pliers design. [7]
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.
In 2018 the building was sold to Malco Products, and as of 2021 has resumed producing pliers of the same style under the name Eagle Grip. [permanent dead link ] In 2009 Gerry Durnell writing in Automobile Quarterly said: "The original Vise-Grip manufacturing plant now sits vacant. One auction has already taken place, another is contemplated ...
From this point to the 1960s, the company began to focus more on the fast-growing pliers side of its business, developing improvements to the original design. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The word "Channellock" eventually became so synonymous with their product that the company changed its name to Channellock, Inc. in 1963 to capitalize on the popularity ...