Rutland Products won The Inventice Award, for “Innovation in Venting Service — Best New Product for Chimney Professionals” at the National Chimney Sweep Guild Convention and Trade Show, February 25, 2010.

The Chimney Sweep News gives the award annually.

Rutland’s winning product is, Torque Lock Connectors, called “TLC for Chimney Sweeps”.

These easy to use connectors...
    Help busy sweeps save time.
    Enable all professional brushes, rods and tools to be interconnected.

Features:
• Push the ends together and they snap into place, no need to depress the push button to make a connection.
• The recessed push button prevents unwanted disconnects.
• An easy squeeze and they unlock, even with gloves on.
• The patent pending tongue and groove keyway feature reduces torque on the push button making it ideal for spinning tools with a drill.

Rutland had the benefit of direct input from chimney sweeps in designing the new TLC system.
Rutland listened to chimney sweeps and designed TLC specifically to meet their needs.

The Sootsayer
The Sootsayer is a quarterly publication for chimney sweeps with the majority of the articles written by chimney sweeps. It is published in March, June, September and December. For 23 years, The Sootsayer was published for and about chimney sweeps and it went out of print when Worcester Brush went out of business. Rutland purchased their assets which included rights to The Sootsayer mark.