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The Wm. Schollhorn Co., founded in 1870 in New Haven, Connecticut, began the tradition of Sargent Quality Tools. William Bernard, inventor of the Bernard parallel action pliers, sold his idea to the Wm. Schollhorn Co. Over the years William Bernard served as an engineer, salesman, and finally partner in the company,  after designing a wide variety of pliers, ticket punches, and other related general purpose tools. Approximately eighty years later, The Sargent Manufacturing Company acquired the Wm. Schollhorn Co., and became known as the Hand Tool Division of Sargent Manufacturing.
The
parallel action design revolutionized the Plier industry as
it is today. Variations of this plier;  manufactured
by Sargent, can be found in sportsman catalogs alike. Likewise,
the parallel action pliers frame has been purchased by other
manufacturers over the years and adapted for specific applications.
As a result, many of the products that exist in the market place
were in fact only partially produced by our company. Such products
are not available on a direct basis.
 Our
current product offering of pliers and punches can be found
in the Industrial
Tool page of this website. The long history of Sargent Quality
Tools is evident by the vast number of tool applications that
have come and gone through the years. We have sought to document
some of our company's history and invite you to explore the
days of old with downloaded catalogs from the 1940's and miscellaneous
advertisements and photos made available for a nostalgic glimpse
into our historical lines of tools past.
Sargent's entry into Crimp Technology  began
in the early 1960's. Our original designs remain industry standard,
the product by which all other crimp tools are judged.
Rostra Tool Company purchased the Hand Tool Division of Sargent Manufacturing in 1987. The entire operation was transferred from New Haven to Branford, Connecticut. All employees of the original Tool Group made the transition.
Rostra Tool Company remains the largest independent crimp tool manufacturer of commercial grade products in the United States. Today the tradition continues, quality, service, and dependability are what Sargent Quality Tools represent in today's work place and are widely recognized throughout the electrical, electronic, automotive, telecommunications, and CATV industries.
To view a more complete history in PDF Format,
click here.
To view a historical pliers
pictorial, click here.
To view historical Carpenter Tools, click
here.
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