Abstract: A fixture useful both to receive and position parts assembled for brazing and to hold the assembled parts during the brazing process. Part locators in the fixture position the parts during assembly or loading, and remain attached to the fixture during brazing. The locators are influenced to maintain an engagement with assembled parts but are able to yield in controlled directions under expansion resulting from the heat of brazing. The result is to obviate distortion in the brazed article. Locators have a linked relationship with relatively fixed support members, and are inherently self aligning in a vertical sense for uniform contact with the parts.

Abstract: A fixture useful both to receive and position parts assembled for brazing and to hold the assembled parts during the brazing process. Part locators in the fixture position the parts during assembly or loading, and remain attached to the fixture during brazing. The locators are influenced to maintain an engagement with assembled parts but are able to yield in controlled directions under expansion resulting from the heat of brazing. The result is to obviate distortion in the brazed article.

Abstract: A fixture for holding parts to be joined together in which a frame-like structure provides a seating surface for an assembly of parts. A cam acting lever is adjustable to exert single point pressure, and means comprised in the structure transmits such single point pressure to multiple pressure points applied uniformly in a seating or clamping of the assembly of parts to the seating surface. In the illustrative embodiment a plurality of pressure applying members is in an approximate linear orientation and functions best in connection with an assembly of parts presenting a flat pressure receiving surface.

Abstract: A fixture for holding parts to be joined together featuring clustered arrangements of pressure applying members. An interconnected yet independent mounting of individual pressure applying members enables a distributed pressure to be applied over a contacted area of a work surface, irrespective of whether such area is flat or curved. Single point pressure is applied uniformly to multiple pressure points. In an illustrated embodiment, clusters of pressure applying members are suspended within a generally C-shaped fixture which includes a cam lever manipulative to apply and to release pressure effects.