Low-profile quick-release clamp

Details Low-profile quick-release clamp Low-profile quick-release clamp

1993-08-17

1995-06-13

Watson, Robert C.

Work holders

Holder mounted for movement

With plural means for changing holder positions

269 82, B23Q 104

Patent

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054235243

ABSTRACT:
An in-line arm assembly for releasably clamping a head-mounting fixture in a disk drive tester is disclosed. The in-line arm assembly includes a clamp housing, a movable gib, a removable head-mounting arm, a head-mounting fixture, and a means for moving the gib to activate and release the clamp. The clamp housing has a support surface and an inclined clamping surface. The gib is coupled to the clamp housing and has an inclined clamping surface. The head-mounting arm has a clamped member that engages the clamp with a bottom surface that is parallel to the support surface of the clamp housing and two opposing beveled surfaces that are parallel to the inclined clamping surfaces of the clamp housing and gib. The in-line arm assembly facilitates replacement of heads in the disk drive tester.

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patent: 1192267 (1916-07-01), Bond
patent: 1323127 (1919-11-01), Treuthardt
patent: 2203162 (1940-06-01), Lee
patent: 3043587 (1962-07-01), Underhill
patent: 4422628 (1983-12-01), Kasai
patent: 4577846 (1986-03-01), Buchler
patent: 4822014 (1989-04-01), Buchler
patent: 5019129 (1991-05-01), Johanson

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