Collapsible Or Foldable Work Holder Supporting Structure Patents (Class 269/901)
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Patent number: 4640326Abstract: The present invention provides an improved stand for a table saw which has an upper work supporting surface. The stand comprises a generally rectangular frame having a top, bottom, two spaced sides and two spaced ends. The table saw is secured to the top of the frame while a pair of elongated supports are secured to one end of the frame so that the supports are spaced apart and parallel to each other. A platform containing a plurality of rollers is pivotally mounted to the supports and is pivotal between an upper and a lower position. In its upper position, an upper surface of each roller on the platform is coplanar with the table saw work supporting surface so that work can be slid from the platform and to the table saw or vice versa. Conversely, in its lower position, the platform is flush against the end of the frame for compact storage. A locking lever retains a platform in its upper position when desired.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1985Date of Patent: February 3, 1987Inventor: Timothy W. Hewitt
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Patent number: 4625951Abstract: A work bench has folding U-shaped splayed legs received in sockets in respective spaced blocks. A horizontal work table is mounted on support posts carried by the blocks for vertical adjustment therein. The work table has a plurality of bosses formed integrally therewith and depending from the bottom surface thereof. Preferably, the bosses have through bores and are interconnected by respective ribs.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1985Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
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Patent number: 4619446Abstract: A versatile workbench has a frame including splayed tripod legs and further including a pair of horizontally-disposed parallel guide rails. A movable jaw is carried on a threaded rod disposed between the guide rails. The movable jaw cooperates with a fixed jaw on the frame for clamping a workpiece therebetween. The jaws have respective faces provided with threaded recesses. A plurality of support rods may be removably received in the threaded recesses. A pair of clamps may be removably secured to a respective support rod, and a screw-threaded means is carried by one of the clamps for moving the clamps towards and away from one another. With this overall arrangement, variously shaped workpieces may be clamped within the workbench.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1985Date of Patent: October 28, 1986Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
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Patent number: 4564181Abstract: A bench includes a rigid frame and a work board pivotable to and away from the frame. The work board can be brought into a rest position and into a plurality of operating positions and can be in at least two operating positions supported by an arm movably supported on the frame. The arm is pivotable with respect to the frame in a horizontal plane. The arm can carry at its free end a clamping device. The structure of the bench increases a range of clamping a work piece on the bench over the length of the work board.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1983Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eduard Gansel, Gunter Schaal, Helmut Schneider, Heribert Schramm, Eberhard Seidel, Gunter Zilly
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Patent number: 4555099Abstract: A workbench comprises a worktop supported by a collapsible leg arrangement, the worktop being adapted to support a vice comprising separate fixed and movable vice jaws. The worktop is formed with elongated slots at predetermined locations each adapted to receive a depending hook-like formation of a fixed vice jaw. The worktop also is formed at predetermined locations at its edge and extending inboard of the latter elongate recesses into each of which movable vice jaws can be located and secured by complementary formations at the inboard ends of the recesses and movable vice jaws. The separate fixed and movable vice jaws are secured in an operational working relationship by the worktop and such relationship can be varied.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1983Date of Patent: November 26, 1985Assignee: Hilton (Products) LimitedInventor: Allan R. Hilton
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Patent number: 4548392Abstract: A portable gun case holder comprised of a pair of gun supports mounted within a carrying case wherein one of the gun supports is equipped with a clamping assembly which holds the gun in place wherein the clamping assembly may be adjusted to accommodate the individual characteristics of a particular gun and furthermore where the gun supports may be folded within the carrying case to allow for easy transportation of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1983Date of Patent: October 22, 1985Inventor: Arthur R. Rickling
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Patent number: 4527786Abstract: A workbench having a pair of vise assemblies mounted on a frame with each vise assembly having a movable jaw and a fixed jaw, wherein one vise assembly is operable with a lead screw to move towards and away from the other vise assembly which is fixed and arranged parallel to the movable vise assembly. Each movable jaw is operable with a screw threaded rod to move towards and away from each corresponding fixed jaw, and is capable of swivelling so as to enable the clamping of an irregularly shaped workpiece between the fixed and movable jaws. The pair of vise assemblies with their frame are mounted on a collapsible supporting structure which may be folded when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1982Date of Patent: July 9, 1985Inventor: Wen C. Hsu
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Patent number: 4509731Abstract: A workbench (1) has a removable vise (3) and a workplate (5) separate from the vise and provided with apertures (6) for clamping elements. A jaw assembly (15) having a fixed vise jaw (16) and likewise a jaw assembly (17) equipped with an adjustable jaw (18) can be screwed onto a vise base (14) so as to resist all twisting forces. The screw fastenings (28 to 30) are such that they can also serve to attach the jaw assemblies to the workplate (5), using the apertures (6) in the latter for that purpose. The vise as a whole can be mounted in a rotary seat (2) where its mandrel (13) can be clamped at different levels and rotary positions, with the further possibility of having the rotary position fixed in the lowest position of the vise in a manner suitable for maintaining parallelism with another rotary vise similarly mounted (not shown in figure).Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1983Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gunter Schaal, Heribert Schramm
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Patent number: 4483524Abstract: A pair of manually-manipulatable spring-loaded buttons are accessible outwardly of the side walls of a pair of respective vise brackets secured beneath the table of a portable foldable workbench. When the buttons are pressed laterally inwardly, respective latching mechanisms are released to enable the workbench to be raised from a lowered storage position into an erected working position, and vice-versa. The buttons facilitate a rapid movement of the workbench from one position to another, and the buttons are conveniently located on the workbench for improved ergonomics.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1984Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Frank Basten, Peter Oxley
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Patent number: 4478397Abstract: A workpiece support structure includes a pair of elongated beams supported in transversely spaced parallel relation by first and second foldable leg structures. A first clamp mechanism on the first leg structure supports a first transversely extended guide member. A second transversely extended guide member is carried on a pair of trolley wheel clamps equipped with disengageable clutch mechanisms for fixing the trolley wheel clamps at selected positions on the beams. Thus the second guide member is longitudinally movable to engage a workpiece between the first and second guide members whereupon the first clamp mechanism is applied to clamp the workpiece therebetween. The disengageable clutches of the trolley wheel clamps are interconnected by a transverse actuator rod so that the clutches are easily simultaneously operated by one hand of a worker.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1982Date of Patent: October 23, 1984Inventor: William M. Krueger
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Patent number: 4457504Abstract: A sawbuck which is collapsible/knockdown to form a unified flattened bundle for easy storage or transport in which part of the sawbuck collapses to form a storage pocket for receiving the remaining part of the sawbuck.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1982Date of Patent: July 3, 1984Inventor: Gilbert E. Mottla
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Patent number: 4454929Abstract: A folding sawbuck is disclosed that combines a cross frame design with integral vertical members, allowing a large quantity of logs or other wood to be cut into firewood at one time. The use of independant support assemblies, secure by horizontal members, provides an obstruction free cutting path that gives fast and safe cuts under all types of conditions, with all types of wood. The sawbuck is designed to be folded compactly for storage, and then opened for use with a minimum of difficulty. Two different embodiments of the invention are disclosed, each design using a different means for forming the "X"-frame portion of the main support assemblies. The invention is designed as a kit, with all parts pre-cut for easy assembly, or it can be manufactured fully assembled. The sawbuck can be constructed from either wood, metal or plastics.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1983Date of Patent: June 19, 1984Inventor: David Wellman
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Patent number: 4418900Abstract: A system for positioning a corpse upon an embalming table and providing sufficient support for the corpse so that it may be embalmed and thereby retained in the desired position, the system including a plurality of polygonal blocks of varying configurations, with at least one tongue or groove presented by each of said blocks whereby the blocks may be interlocked in desired and suitable arrangements to support various portions of the corpse in the desired position upon the table for embalming.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1981Date of Patent: December 6, 1983Inventor: Theodore D. Ricke
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Patent number: 4415149Abstract: A portable workbench including a pair of front legs and a pair of rear legs, with a support extending between the legs. A pair of beams extends laterally across the support and provides a work surface. The pair of beams and the support are adjustable to permit the beams to be positioned at a plurality of predetermined spacings relative to each other. Each of the beams has a plurality of spaced vertical axis apertures extending therethrough. A vise member having a mounting shaft extending therefrom which is proportioned to be received through one of the vertical apertures is also provided, the vise including a stationary jaw and a movable jaw together with a screw which extends between the stationary and the movable jaws for moving the movable jaw toward and away from the stationary jaw.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1981Date of Patent: November 15, 1983Assignee: Wen Products, Inc.Inventor: Spencer C. Rees
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Patent number: 4395029Abstract: A plurality of knock-down C-shaped frame members, adjustably supporting a pair of spaced apart furniture manufacturing jig frame members in each C-frame, provides a plurality of rotatable, clear span assemblies for weaving a plurality of rattan-type fibers from each jig frame member to its juxtaposed jig frame member, and arranged to hold the jig frame members in their spaced position during the hardening of fibers, which secures such fibers in a rattan furniture frame shape. The unit provides an easily assembled and disassembled multiple station, furniture base manufacturing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 26, 1983Assignee: Almar Products CorporationInventors: Denny G. Davis, Robert C. Emerson, George J. Banks, Jr.
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Patent number: 4386767Abstract: A portable clamping device is disclosed which utilizes conventional pipe clamps suspended between saw horses with pipe mounting device to provide a combination work table, bench vice, and gluing press. The device is adjustable in both size and shape. A pipe mounting device for mounting the pipe clamps on the saw horses is also described. The pipe mounting device consists of an annular pipe holder attached to a saw horse mounting bracket in either fixed or pivoting arrangement. Thumb screws are provided on both pipe holder and saw horse brackets.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1981Date of Patent: June 7, 1983Inventors: Dennis B. Dyckes, Ross Johnson, Richard Hibbeler
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Patent number: 4378107Abstract: A workpiece supporting and clamping assembly is adapted to be mounted on a wall or similar structure and to be adjustable between a substantially vertical storage position, closely adjacent the wall and a working position substantially perpendicular to the wall. The assembly comprises a pair of brackets, a pair of spaced apart, parallel hinge assemblies, each having locking means and a release lever associated therewith, and a workpiece supporting and clamping device, pivotally coupled with the brackets and hinge assemblies. The workpiece supporting and clamping device comprises a generally rigid base frame which includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart frame members and a pair of elongated, coplanar top members which are mounted on the spaced apart members, extending generally transversely thereto such that their upper surfaces define the work supporting surface and their opposed side surfaces, the work clamping surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1981Date of Patent: March 29, 1983Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Robert P. Wagster, Russell Pizzuto
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Patent number: 4364548Abstract: A portable workbench having a combination tabletop/dual-screw vise in which the ends of the vise screws are connected to a movable vise jaw and in which the ends of the vise screws are constrained against both lateral and vertical movement. The workbench includes pipe legs which are readily installed in or readily removed from "twist-lock" leg sockets carried by the workbench without the necessity of utilizing any fasteners (e.g., bolts or screws) or even simple hand tools.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1980Date of Patent: December 21, 1982Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventor: Curtis J. Eccardt
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Patent number: 4362295Abstract: A device for securing logs or flat work while said logs or flat work are being cut out of doors in situ. The device consists of a stand and a bow section mounted on a base which secures the log on flat work by means of judicious use of their center of gravity. The device may be adaptable to a wide variety of sizes of logs or flat work and is portable. In one embodiment, the device is constructed of metal pieces having hollow circular cross-sectional areas allowing the base and the stand sections to telescope by means of concentric sections, thus fullfilling the requirement of adaptability described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1981Date of Patent: December 7, 1982Inventor: Henry E. Ford
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Patent number: 4360047Abstract: The machine-tool comprises a support forming a work table and containing an electric driving motor, a machining unit associated with the motor, and feet means. The feet means comprises two foldable feet which have a flattened bow-shaped structure and are pivotally mounted adjacent their ends on two ends of the support. The flattened portion of each foot forms a region of the foot for bearing on the ground. The dimensions and the shapes of the bow-shaped structures are such that, on one hand, the support is capable of passing therethrough in the course of the relative angular displacements of the support and the feet and that, on the other hand, the feet are capable of passing one inside the other in the course of the angular displacements. The feet means further comprises means for immobilizing the feet in the unfolded position thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1980Date of Patent: November 23, 1982Assignee: Aciers et Outillage PeugeotInventor: Jean-Claude Maret
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Patent number: 4328846Abstract: An extension assembly adapted to be attached to a conventional work bench to permit elongated and bulky work pieces to be supported thereon. The extension assembly includes a horizontal member having a portion to be supported on the work bench and a vertical upright member, pivotally connected to the horizontal member, to support another portion. One or a plurality of extension assemblies may be selectably attachable to the work bench for effective use.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1980Date of Patent: May 11, 1982Inventor: Palmer C. Hanson
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Patent number: 4322064Abstract: A plurality of serially-disposed and pivotally-connected elements comprise the object-spacing tool of the present invention. The tool can be compactly folded to a size approximately the length of one element or expanded to a length approximately the total length of all the elements. Each element has two members projecting therefrom; typically, each projecting member is at or near an end of the element. Each projecting member is constructed to cooperate with a projecting member from an adjacent element for clamping an object therebetween. These cooperating pairs of projecting elements are spaced a fixed distance from each other, thereby spacing the objects clamped therebetween a predetermined distance from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1980Date of Patent: March 30, 1982Inventor: Michael Jarvis
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Patent number: 4310150Abstract: A workbench of a foldable, portable nature includes a working surface formed by a pair of vise bars. The vise bars are operated by a pair of clamping screws which are so interconnected with a movable one of the bars by connections which allow limited lateral movement of a nut, carried by one of the screws, and the movable vise bar to permit one clamping screw to be rotated at a different speed than the other clamping screw. The vise bars are carried by a supporting structure formed by two frame members, means being provided for retaining the frame members at an acute angle to each other in an erected position of the workbench and for enabling the frame member to lie adjacent each other in substantially parallel planes, when the frames are in a collapsed position of the workbench.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1978Date of Patent: January 12, 1982Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Reginald W. D. Andrews
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Patent number: 4291869Abstract: A workbench of a collapsible nature includes a top structure comprising a pair of vice members. These can either be spaced from a supporting surface in a first work-mode at saw-horse height or, by lowering of legs, in a second work-mode at full height.Each vise member is provided with two rows of cylindrical bores in which the shank portions of abutment members are axially and slidably received with a snug fit and are thereafter rotatable about a vertical axis to enable the gripping faces of the abutment members to self-align with a workpiece clamped between the abutment members.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1979Date of Patent: September 29, 1981Assignee: Tekron Licensing B.V.Inventor: Ronald P. Hickman
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Patent number: 4278243Abstract: The invention is directed to a foldable, portable workbench having a work table and a support structure for supporting the work table. The support structure includes a pair of mutually spaced leg assemblies and each of these leg assemblies, in turn, includes a pair of legs pivotally connected at one end thereof to the work table. Articulated linkages pivotally interconnect, respectively, the two legs of each pair of legs to each other and at least one of the legs to the work table. The articulating linkages are connected so that the work table and leg structures are stacked in juxtaposition to each other when the workbench is in its folded position and, so that the other ends of the leg structures are spread apart from each other with the work table substantially transverse to the leg structures when the workbench is in the erected position.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1979Date of Patent: July 14, 1981Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Lorenzo E. Alessio
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Patent number: 4268020Abstract: A support device for automotive body parts includes a rectangular frame pivotally connected to a U-shaped support frame for pivoting movement between collapsed and erect positions. The support frame is provided with a pair of brackets which cooperate with the support frame for supporting an automotive body part thereon in generally inclined relation. A table frame is pivotally connected to the rectangular frame and when pivoted to a raised position cooperates with the rectangular frame to support an automotive body part horizontally thereon.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1979Date of Patent: May 19, 1981Inventor: Arthur E. Wood
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Patent number: 4265435Abstract: A work bench includes a frame formed of interconnected longitudinal and transverse section beams defining a frame plane; and a vise formed of a stationary vise jaw and a movable vise jaw movable towards and away from the stationary vise jaw generally in a direction parallel to the transverse beams. The movable vise jaw is displaceably supported on the transverse beams by a spindle-and-guide arrangement. Each transverse beam has an open side oriented in a direction parallel to the frame plane and a leg part extending in the length dimension of the transverse beam and having wall faces arranged parallel to the frame plane. A guide member is affixed to the movable vise jaw adjacent each transverse beam. The guide member, which has a part traversed by the spindle, is provided with a groove-like recess extending in the length dimension of the respective transverse beam. The leg of the respective transverse beam extends into the groove-like recess in the respective transverse beam.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1978Date of Patent: May 5, 1981Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.Inventors: Erwin Stiltz, Heinz Lindenmayer, Wilhelm Geis, Otto Wolf
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Patent number: 4265284Abstract: A workbench comprises a rigid frame support having telescoped legs to provide adjustable working height and supporting a flat topped work surface. The frame has two widely spaced apart parallel guide rods extending from one side of the work surface, the guide rods having slideable thereon a clamping member to clamp a tool against the adjacent side of the work surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1978Date of Patent: May 5, 1981Assignee: Bondgrade LimitedInventor: George O. Taylor
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Patent number: 4258907Abstract: A wood buck fabricated of tubular steel components which can be easily assembled and disassembled comprises a base pedestal and a log holder removably and adjustably mounted thereon whereby a log to be cut is held in cantilever relationship within an opening defined by an upper log holder member and an axially offset lower log support member, with the base pedestal serving as a counterbalance to prevent tipping.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1980Date of Patent: March 31, 1981Assignee: Gem Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Russell J. Roberts, Kenneth F. Leisner
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Patent number: 4256294Abstract: In the illustrative embodiment of the invention disclosed, a portable workbench and carrying case therefor includes front and rear vise beams, a pair of independently operable vise screw rods for moving the vise beams relatively towards and away from one another, and a six-sided case that is foldable between a closed, carrying condition in which it encloses the workbench and an open, use position in which it is adapted to overlie a table-top and cooperate therewith to facilitate use of the workbench.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1979Date of Patent: March 17, 1981Assignee: Inventec Licensing B.V.Inventors: Ronald P. Hickman, Alan F. Styman
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Patent number: 4252304Abstract: A workbench includes a top structure and a supporting structure for supporting the top structure above the floor. The top structure includes a three part vice, one part being a first elongate vice member and the second and third parts together forming a second elongate vice member extending in side-by-side relationship with the first elongate vice member, the two elongate vice members having opposed clamping faces. A first vice operating arrangement causes movement of the clamping face of at least one vice member towards and away from the clamping face of the other vice member. A second vice operating arrangement causes relative movement of the second and third parts in a direction parallel to the direction of elongation of the vice members to permit clamping of objects between opposed further clamping faces of the second and third parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1979Date of Patent: February 24, 1981Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Charles W. Pettican
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Patent number: 4239195Abstract: An improved workbench includes collapsible legs, tool holders attachable to the legs, extensible auxiliary support legs, a generally planar bench top with a removable section for power tools and a pair of adjustable vises cooperative with the planar top. The adjustable vises include a mechanism for gross and fine adjustment and additionally include gripping jaws that are pivotal.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1979Date of Patent: December 16, 1980Assignee: Waterloo Industries, Inc.Inventors: John P. Oltman, Emerson V. Purkapile
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Patent number: 4231557Abstract: A portable work table intended for home use, with or without detachable legs, has a rigid, elongated, rectangular frame and a pair of longitudinally extending members thereon forming a work surface and also functioning to clamp a workpiece therebetween, one member being fixed on the frame and the other member being moved thereon toward and away from the fixed member by a pair of independently operable, longitudinally spaced motion transmission screws; the work table being further provided with conveniently detachable, telescopically adjustable legs, and a compartment in the frame for storage of the detached legs.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1979Date of Patent: November 4, 1980Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Donald L. Blachly, Daniel A. Terpstra