Yale Locks

Yale is a lock manufacturer owned by ASSA ABLOY a Swedish manufacturer with the largest sales volume. Yale is associated with the pin tumbler lock because they are the ones who have invented it. Yale Lock Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1868, in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. Linus Yale Jr. was the founder of Yale Co. and the inventor of pin tumbler lock and he also registered 8 patents in US between 1843 – 1857.

The twentieth century was the time of global expansion. They signed numerous cooperation agreements and joint ventures with other major corporations of the time, employing over twelve thousand employees.
The expansion also included the UK. Yale Locks became general term for pin-tumbler household locks and keys. Until 1991, Yale was the only supplier of Rolls-Roycs Motors.