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New Products. View New Products. Tool Bag, Black Canvas, Inch. Portable Power Station, W. Interested readers can find more information on the Company History [External Link] at their website. The following table shows some of the more important historical trademarks.
We may be missing at least one important trademark, an early version of the "Climbing Lineman" trademark with "Klein" and "Tools" on the circumference and "Est. This trademark logo can be seen in Fig. Since the "Climbing Lineman" design here is the same as that in the registered trademark 89, see table below , it's possible that Klein did not separately register the version with the "Klein Tools" text.
The text in the ad notes that the company would start using the mark on January 1 [], which matches the first use date in the registered trademark.
Older Klein tools can be identified by the markings "M. The earlier of the lineman logos from a trademark was used beginning in Advertisements from show the "Climbing Lineman" logo with the text "Klein" and "Tools" at the side, with "Est. A later version of the lineman logo from a trademark has the text "M.
A still later variant of the logo from a trademark includes "Klein" and "Tools" inside the circle, with the text "Est. We were pleased to discover that Klein Tools has a date code system when a reader sent us a reference. It seems that in Klein ran an "Oldest Pliers" contest and documented their date code system on the entry form.
When we checked their web site, we found a similar form for an Oldest Pliers in Canada [External Link] contest with a description of how to decode the date codes on their pliers. The date codes were typically stamped or forged into the underside of the handles. According to this document, there were actually two date code systems in use over the period from the early s to The earlier system was a simple "MM-YY" code giving the month and year of production. An example of this early date code system can be seen on our Klein Lineman's Pliers dated to April of The production date is then indicated by three letters, with the first one giving the calendar quarter and the next two providing the year after An example of this second date code system can be seen on our Klein [] Needlenose Pliers , with an "LEM" code dating the pliers to the third quarter of The Klein documents don't explain what system was used after , although one example here suggests that a modified code was still in use.
But it's good to know that there is a date code system covering much of the earlier production, and we'll need to go back and check the tools again for possible code markings. Photographs and observations of particular tools are based on items in the Alloy Artifacts collection. Klein Tools remains in business today and interested readers can find information on the Company History [External Link] at their website.
The pliers came to him from somewhere I do not know. In about , I was sort of handed down the pliers as I started helping my father wire houses. I of course was still in school. In these pliers were given to my mother to keep on the back porch to crack pecans and do other jobs around the house.
His name is Dallas Rose. In about Dallas returned them to Robert Armstrong Sr. I of course did not use them and had planned to get them chromed some time and put them in a shadow box on the wall of my office at Elec. Sales Engineering, in Bowling Green, Ky. The store manager is Mr. Mike Morris. They have been in my home shop since about I worked off and on in the electrical business for 5 or 6 years. Then I got with it seriously doing residential and commercial work.
It was then that I needed better and more tools. At this Hardware store in Ft. Youngest Oldest Pliers User Brody Tonelletti, 13 Years old Circleville, OH Pliers Age: I just always loved tools and could never get enough of them, every time I would go to a yard sale I would always look for an old toolbox with tools in it and these pliers just happened to be in one of them.
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