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Boyer Hammer

A corkscrew advertising

“

Boyer Air Hammer, Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co.

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and a 1936 Consolidated Pneumatic Tool catalog.

In 1895, Joseph Boyer (1848-1930) was granted his first British patent for

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Improvements in Pneumatic and similar Hand Tools.

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A patent for a Pneumatic

Hammer followed in 1897 and he had two additional patents in 1897 and 1900 for

Pneumatic Tool Improvements. In 1901 his Pneumatic Hammer was patented in

Austria. These patents set the stage for the firms

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Chicago Pneumatic Tool

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and

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Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co.,

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manufacturers and sellers of the famous Boyer

Hammer.

Consolidated Pneumatic Tool manufactured industrial power tools until 1982 in

Aberdeen, Scotland. This was followed by the closing of the Fraserburgh plant by the

Chicago Pneumatic, the U.S.A. owners before Atlas Copco acquired the firm in 1987.

The current Consolidated firm sells Chicago Pneumatic parts as well as Duff Norton

lifting equipment. Today Consolidated Tool reports to its parent company Chicago

Pneumatic Tool in Utica, New York, which in turn reports to the Industrial Technique

division of Atlas Copco in Stockholm.

Advertising on the roundlet corkscrew.