Work holders – Relatively movable jaws – With means to align coacting jaw faces
Patent
1991-03-01
1992-07-07
Watson, Robert C.
Work holders
Relatively movable jaws
With means to align coacting jaw faces
269183, B25B 102
Patent
active
051276399
ABSTRACT:
A vise for holding a workpiece, comprising a pair of generally opposed jaws having substantially planar faces, a clamping screw having at least one external thread centered around a longitudinal axis rotatably attached at one end to one of the jaws and passing through the other jaw, a clamping screw nut having at least one internal thread occupying an arc of no more than approximately 180.degree. and having a substantially planar forward face for bearing against a substantially planar and parallel rear face of the other jaw when the clamping screw is rotated to draw the jaws together and both the forward and rear faces are oblique to the axis of the clamping screw, a rod attached to a handle that, when depressed, moves the rod so that its movement moves the nut substantially transverse to the axis of the clamping screw, a foot pedal attached to an actuator that, when the foot petal is depressed, moves the clamping nut substantially transverse to the axis of the clamping screw, at least one guide rod rigidly attached at one end to one of the jaws, and an elastic cord attached between the other end of the guide rod and the other jaw.
REFERENCES:
patent: 651929 (1900-06-01), Olson
patent: 2331831 (1943-10-01), Gordon
patent: 4858902 (1989-08-01), Hickman
Pages 72 and 73 from the 1990/1991 Lee Valley Tools Ltd. catalog.
Pages 24, 26 and 33 from the Dec. 1989 Woodworker's Supply of New Mexicao catalog.
Chapter 10, pp. 136 to 149 of The Workbench Book, written by Scott Landis, published by The Taunton Press, copyright date 1987.
Frank Timothy C.
Lacoste Gary W.
Lee Leonard G.
McLean Francis A.
Sevack Lloyd
Lee Valley Tools Ltd.
Watson Robert C.
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