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Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-20
2001-07-03
Watson, Robert C. (Department: 3723)
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C269S902000, C269S156000, C269S099000
Reexamination Certificate
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06254077
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a clamping V-block and more particularly pertains to a new clamp and V-block apparatus for improving the use and structure of a V-block.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a clamping V-block is known in the prior art. More specifically, a clamping V-block heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,445,678; U.S. Pat. No. 4,201,376; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 333,826; U.S. Pat. No. 5,244,193; U.S. Pat. No. 4,340,211; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,423,885.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new clamp and V-block apparatus. The inventive device includes a block member having a front and a plurality of sides with a first side having a V-shaped slot extending therein and being adapted to receive a work piece and with a second side having a T-shaped slot extending therein as viewed from the front and extending through and from the front to a back thereof with the second side being disposed generally opposite of the first side; and also includes a clamping member including an arcuate body member having flanges disposed at ends thereof and being removably and securely received in the block member, and further having a plurality of fasteners being threaded through the arcuate body member at spaced intervals and being adapted to engage and secure the work piece in the V-shaped slot; and further includes a plurality of fastening members lockingly extendable through the block member for securely fastening the work piece in the V-shaped slot.
In these respects, the clamp and V-block apparatus according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of improving the use and structure of a V-block.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of clamping V-block now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new clamp and V-block apparatus construction wherein the same can be utilized for improving the use and structure of a V-block.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which has many of the advantages of the clamping V-block mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new clamp and V-block apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art clamping V-block, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises includes a block member having a front and a plurality of sides with a first side having a V-shaped slot extending therein and being adapted to receive a work piece and with a second side having a T-shaped slot extending therein as viewed from the front and extending through and from the front to a back thereof with the second side being disposed generally opposite of the first side; and also includes a clamping member including an arcuate body member having flanges disposed at ends thereof and being removably and securely received in the block member, and further having a plurality of fasteners being threaded through the arcuate body member at spaced intervals and being adapted to engage and secure the work piece in the V-shaped slot; and further includes a plurality of fastening members lockingly extendable through the block member for securely fastening the work piece in the V-shaped slot.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which has many of the advantages of the clamping V-block mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new clamp and V-block apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art clamping V-block, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such clamp and V-block apparatus economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus for improving the use and structure of a V-block.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new clamp and V-block apparatus which includes includes a block member having a front and a plurality of sides with a first side having a V-shaped slot extending therein and being adapted to receive a work piece and with a second side having a T-shaped slot extending therein as viewed from the front and extending through and from the front to a back thereof with the second side being disposed generally opposite of the first side; and also includes a clamping member including an arcuate body member having flanges disposed at ends thereof and being removably and securely received in the block member, and further having a plurality of fasteners being thre
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