What are Leatherman pliers?
Key pliers are the most popular and most famous tools manufactured by Leatherman Tool Group based in Portland in Oregon. Leatherman wedges include other tools, such as knives, screwdrivers and Openers of CAN, all of which, including the pliers themselves, can be collapsed into quiet handles for compact storage. Although it is sometimes used to link to any multi-toool, the name Leatherman is a registered trademark of the company that patented various designs of their pliers and more tools. In fact, the product is named for the founders of Tim Leatherman. According to the official history of the company, the work of Tim Leatherman was inspired by his inability to find sufficient instruments during the European holiday at the age of 70. He founded the company at the age of 80 and a folding multi-toool became popular and the technicians and the general public by the end of the decade. The serration jaws can be collapsed into handles, which also contain a number of other small instruments. Depending on the design they cano Tools include knives, screwdrivers, cutters and strippers, hunting and fishing aids, sets, scissors and ruler. In full collapse, the entire device can be of a pocket knife or smaller.
Key pliers Leatherman appeared in various films and TV shows, especially in the genre of the action-adventure. Central characters in the films Rush Hour and Speed and TV series x Files used devices for such unlikely applications such as de -unlikely bombs and the execution of alien dissection. Most remarkably, the TV action hero MacGyver used Leathe Therman pliers for improvisation of weapons in one episode of the popular TV series. Despite its obvious pride in these pop -cultural performances, the company does not approve of its product for disposal bombs.
The name and design of Leatherman became ubiquitous and inspiring similar products, of whichSome are called "leatherman" as a catch-all term of occasional users. Although there are many commercially available multi-tools, Leatherman prevented his patents for design in court. Similarly, it discourages the use of the word "leatherman" to describe multiple tools that it does not produce, because it risk that their trademark converts the general word as "aspirin". It is funny that some people referred to a multi-toool as a "leatherette" in a spoof "politically correct" language.