Columbian

by Carl Matthews updated 05/01/05

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Columbian Hardware Co.

Cleveland, Ohio

Do you have a Columbian vise? I would like to use your photos here.

 

Columbian Hardware Co. made a variety of tools including vises, anvils and clamps. You can usually find a triangle with a "C" in the middle as their mark.

 

After manufacturing his own vises as GM Yost Mfg. Co., Gilmore M. Yost moved to Cleveland, Ohio to work for Columbian Hardware Co. There he patented more vises as shown below. In 1926, the company changed its name to Columbian Vise and Mfg. Co. In ----, Columbian became Columbian Vise Division of Warren Tool Corp of Cleveland, OH.

Wilton Tool Group, Columbian and ____ became one.

Columbian Vise Div., Warren Tool Corp.
9021-T Bessemer Ave.
Cleveland,  OH 44104
USA

Tel: 216-341-2134
Fax: 216-341-8448
Or call: 800-543-3224

 

Today, Columbian is part of WMH Tool Group Inc, a division of Walter Meier Holding AG. WMH Tool Group also manufactures Jet, Powermatic, Performax, Wilton, Waxmaster, Polishmaster and TurtleWax.

WMH Tool Group Inc.

2420 Vantage Drive
Elgin, IL 60123, USA
Phone +1/847 649 3010
Fax +1/847 649 3013
wmh@wmhtoolgroup.com
www.wmhtoolgroup.com

www.wiltontool.com
 

WMH
Walter Meier Holding AG
Laubisrütistrasse 24
CH-8712 Stäfa, Switzerland
Telephone
+41/1/928 15 15

e-mail: direct@wmh.ch
www.wmh.ch

 

 

Patent 1,298,145 Dated Mar. 25, 1919 by G. M. Yost.

To see the official content as published by USPTO, go to http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=1298145 and click on the Images button.

Patent 1,298,146 Dated Mar. 25, 1919 by G. M. Yost.

To see the official content as published by USPTO, go to http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=1298146 and click on the Images button.

 

 

Model 1A with Taper Adjustment Model 3A without Taper Adjustment

 

1925 National Supply Co. Tool Catalog

 

 

1925 National Supply Co. Tool Catalog

 

 

Similar to Versa-Vise

 

 

 

Similar to Versa-Vise

 

 

 

Similar to Versa-Vise

 

Columbian Vise Photos

Model 3A without Taper Adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

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