Pawl-rack Patents (Class 269/212)
  • Patent number: 11872664
    Abstract: A technological equipment for tank track moving supports is provided and includes a zero-point positioning system, a workpiece identifying system and a clamping apparatus in cooperation with the moving support, the clamping apparatus includes a tooling plate, a clamp and a pressing device for pressing the moving support are detachably connected to the tooling plate, the moving support is located between the clamp and the pressing device, and the pressing device abuts against the moving support. The moving support with different shapes and sizes can be clamped, and the clamping is stable and convenient to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Qingdao University of Technology, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Shubham Sharma, Qingdao Cabos Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yanbin Zhang, Shuaiqiang Xu, Shubham Sharma, Aiguo Qin, Changhe Li, Hanqi Fan, Junting Li, Tao Jiang, Min Li, Zongming Zhou, Bo Liu, Yun Chen, Yuying Yang
  • Patent number: 11709039
    Abstract: A launch platform for securing pyrotechnic explosives prior to, during, and after detonation may include a cake stand portion and a mortar board portion. The cake stand portion and the mortar board portion may be integrated into a singular launch pad or may be removably connected to one another. The cake stand portion may include a base; a stationary clamping wall fixedly attached to and extending substantially perpendicularly upwards from the base; a moveable clamping wall slidably engaged with the base; and a ratcheting system operatively attached to the movable clamping wall, the ratcheting system configured to provide for movement and securement of the moveable clamping wall. The mortar board portion may include at least one mortar board slot sized to accommodate a mortar shell therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventor: Nathaniel Lee Clevenger
  • Patent number: 11660728
    Abstract: A vise having a modular construction that allows for ease of manufacture, assembly, and changeover or replacement of wear items, such as gripping surfaces of jaws of the vise. The modular construction also provides for reduced weight of the vise compared to conventional cast type vises. The vise also incorporates quick adjustment features allowing for the vise to be easily rotated, a position and size of an opening of the jaws to be rapidly adjusted, and a clamping force applied with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ottoleo Kuter-Arnebeck, Nicholas H. Weir, Benjamin T. Schulz, Rupak K. Paul
  • Patent number: 10098735
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a compression device for artificial valve replacing device that comprises at least two clamp unit blocks connecting with each other in sequence and enclosing a compressing channel. The compression device further comprises a guide structure for leading all clamp unit blocks to retract towards the center of the compressing channel. In this invention, when the artificial valve replacing device is placed in the compressing channel, the inner wall of the compressing channel props against the peripheral wall of the artificial valve replacing device. When the clamp unit blocks are retracting towards the center of the compressing channel under the action of outside force, the inner wall of the compressing channel applies the force directing to the center of the compressing channel. The device has the low manufacturing cost and is convenient to clean due to the simple structure, fully satisfying the requirements for operation sanitation in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Venus Medtech (Hangzhou), Inc.
    Inventors: Rongjun Lei, Zhenjun Zi
  • Patent number: 9707364
    Abstract: A device for securing an oral airway device in place with a patient's oral cavity. The device comprises a V-clamp which is slid along its upper edge in the direction of the oral airway device. After making contact with the oral airway device with the V-clamp, the user may choose to manipulate a screw disposed on the device and bring its corresponding distal end into physical contact with the opposing surface or side of the oral airway device, thereby creating a compressive force on the oral airway device. Alternatively, the device may comprise a V-clamp on a first portion which is disposed on a sliding track. The first portion may be manipulated with the addition of a screw in order to create a compressive force on the oral airway device. Alternatively, the device may comprise two rotating portions coupled together via a pivot point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: LAERDAL MEDICAL, AS
    Inventor: Steve Islava
  • Patent number: 9120206
    Abstract: In one embodiment a cam-activated bench vise comprises a fixed jaw having a first gripping surface, a moveable jaw having a second gripping surface, a threaded rod for providing movement of the moveable jaw relative to the fixed jaw, a hinged split nut for selectively engaging the threaded rod, and a lever actuated cam that rotates a beveled plunger against a first end of the split nut, forcing a second end of the split nut to engage a bevel-mouthed receiving block which causes the split nut to close and to engage the threaded rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventor: John Yongki Lee
  • Patent number: 8893393
    Abstract: A power tool including a sliding member slidably received in the power tool and a pair of lock plates, each of the pair of lock plates including an opening, and the lock plates being configured such that the sliding member slides within the opening. First ends of each of the lock plates are pivotably attached to a support at a first side of the sliding member, and second ends of each of the lock plates being biased toward one another at an opposite side of the sliding member. A first contact portion of the lock plate contacts a first surface of the sliding member at the first side of the sliding member, and a second contact portion of the lock plate contacts a second surface of the sliding member at the opposite side of the sliding member, wherein the sliding member is secured with respect to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent A Kuehne, Mark D Miller, John S Vantran
  • Patent number: 8438741
    Abstract: A power tool including a sliding member slidably received in the power tool and a pair of lock plates, each of the pair of lock plates including an opening, and the lock plates being configured such that the sliding member slides within the opening. First ends of each of the lock plates are pivotably attached to a support at a first side of the sliding member, and second ends of each of the lock plates being biased toward one another at an opposite side of the sliding member. A first contact portion of the lock plate contacts a first surface of the sliding member at the first side of the sliding member, and a second contact portion of the lock plate contacts a second surface of the sliding member at the opposite side of the sliding member, wherein the sliding member is secured with respect to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent A. Kuehne, Mark D. Miller, John S. Vantran
  • Patent number: 8402798
    Abstract: A locking clamp device is provided with first and second clamping members. The first clamping member includes a base member with a first clamping surface and a locking member movable with respect to the base member between a securing position and a releasing position. The second clamping member is slidably engaged with the first clamping member and selectively movable to a plurality of clamping positions. The second clamping member includes a second clamping surface opposite the first clamping surface. The lockout device further includes a means for preventing movement of the locking member from the securing position to the releasing position. The locking member is configured to secure the second clamping member in one of the plurality of clamping positions when the locking member is in the securing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Master Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael Brojanac, Mark Johnson, Frank Scott, John Weber
  • Patent number: 8387963
    Abstract: A device is provided for use to securely clamp a medical mechanism to a person carrier, such as a lifter, stretcher, gurney, or the like, to facilitate providing medical treatment to a person during transport of the person to a medical facility, The device has an open condition released from the person carrier and a closed condition whereupon it clamps very securely to a rail of the person carrier; with the material of the person carrier facilitating securing to the person carrier the device as well as the medical mechanism to be secured to the person carrier. The medical mechanism may, by way of example, be a relatively heavy mechanism for providing infusate to the person or a relatively heavy control for the infusate providing device. No matter what it could be severely damaging to the person on the carrier, medical personnel and transport personnel if a relatively heavy mechanism loosened from the person carrier and moved uncontrolled around the transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Belmont Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy E. Moutafis
  • Publication number: 20090278297
    Abstract: A clamping device includes a securing seat, a driving member movably mounted on the securing seat, a first fixture, a second fixture, a first securing pole, a second securing pole, a first joining member and a second joining member. The first fixture includes a first clamping member and a first connecting member. The first connecting member comprises a first moving portion. The second fixture includes a second clamping member and a second connecting member. The second connecting member includes a second moving portion. The first and second securing poles are fixed on the securing seat. The first and second joining members are respectively matched with the first and second securing poles. Two ends of the first joining member are respectively connected to the driving member and the first moving portion. Two ends of the second joining member are respectively connected to the driving member and the second moving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHIUNG-HUNG WANG, CHAO-CHIEN LEE, JEN-HUI WANG, CHIU-YI WU
  • Patent number: 6761349
    Abstract: An improved clamping assembly especially suited for use in a bench vise for allowing a user to choose between conventional fine-screw-reduction closure and/or opening of the jaws for clamping, or quick-set sliding adjustment of the jaws. The clamping assembly relies on a toothed rack and pawl. The pawl is selectively engaged with the toothed rack to allow conventional reduction gear closure or opening. Alternatively, a user can more quickly open and close the jaws by disengaging the pawl from the rack and simply sliding the jaws relative to one another. The clamping assembly provides a quick-set clamping action which allows a user to initially to preset the jaws by sliding them together in one quick motion, followed by conventional fine-screw-adjustment for high-force clamping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Inventor: Brian McCraw
  • Patent number: 6659439
    Abstract: A rapidly adjustable multi-clamping device with at least one clamping module, which is adjustable along the base and can be locked in place thereon, wherein teeth for positioning the clamping modules are provided on the base and on the clamping modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Triag AG
    Inventors: Beat Baumgartner, Eduard Zängerle
  • Publication number: 20030173727
    Abstract: An improved clamping assembly especially suited for use in a bench vise for allowing a user to choose between conventional fine-screw-reduction closure and/or opening of the jaws for clamping, or quick-set sliding adjustment of the jaws. The clamping assembly relies on a toothed rack and pawl. The pawl is selectively engaged with the toothed rack to allow conventional reduction gear closure or opening. Alternatively, a user can more quickly open and close the jaws by disengaging the pawl from the rack and simply sliding the jaws relative to one another. The clamping assembly provides a quick-set clamping action which allows a user to initially to preset the jaws by sliding them together in one quick motion, followed by conventional fine-screw-adjustment for high-force clamping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Brian McCraw
  • Patent number: 6406012
    Abstract: A vise includes a base having a fixed clamp member and a rack member is connected to the base. A movable clamp member is movably connected to the base and a rod extends through a horizontal portion of the movable clamp member. A connection member is mounted to the rod and has two lugs between which a pushing member is pivotally connected. A position member is pivotally connected to the connection member and a second end of the position member is engaged with of the rack member. A head is connected to the rod and located between the two lugs. The head has an inclined surface and an underside of the pushing member is rested on the inclined surface. A pushing surface is defined in an end of the pushing member and is matched with a vertical portion of the movable clamp member. The pushing member prevents the top portion of the movable clamp member from being deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Inventor: Shuenn-Jyi Guo
  • Patent number: 6202997
    Abstract: A work vice of a work includes a first moving base slidably attached to a slide guide arranged in parallel with an elongated fundamental base in a longitudinal direction of the fundamental base, a second moving base capable of approaching an advancing direction side of the first moving base and being separated on the advancing direction side and sent out toward an advancing direction of the first moving base by a feed screw attached to the first moving base, a plurality of positioning means arranged at a predetermined pitch in the fundamental base to position and fix a leg portion side of the first moving base, a movable claw arranged on an advancing direction side of the second moving base and gripping one end of a work, and a pent roof portion having a gate shape and integrally formed with an upper portion of the second moving base on the first moving base side, a lower face of the pent roof portion slidably coming in contact with the first moving base on a sliding face parallel to the slide guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Yasuda Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Yasuda
  • Patent number: 6149145
    Abstract: A workbench includes a base, a pair of beams disposed on top of the base and each having a number of holes, and two frames slidably engaged on the beams. A fixed platform is secured on the beams, and a slidable platform is secured on the frames for allowing the slidable platform to be moved along the beams. A positioning device is secured on the frame for engaging with the holes of the beams and for securing the frame and the slidable platform to the beams. The slidable platform may be easily and quickly moved along the beams when the positioning device is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Inventor: Huang Lung Lin
  • Patent number: 6095508
    Abstract: A vice device consisting of a frame containing a fixed jaw and a rack, the rack being placed in a plane perpendicular to the fixed jaw; and a mobile jaw, containing a body and a jaw mobile in movement compared to the body. The jaw is mobile in movement parallel to the rack with the possibility of locking onto the rack by means of a rack mobile in the body equipped with notches at its end opposite the rack and biased in the direction of rack by at least one spring and maneuverable by a lever connected to the body. The end of the body connected to the lever being linked to a cam which leans on the posterior part of the mobile jaw in order to allow the spreading of the mobile jaw compared to the body in the direction of the fixed jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Virax S.A.
    Inventors: Alfredo Baraldi, Jean Mazingue
  • Patent number: 5722649
    Abstract: An adjustable clamp includes a compression jaw and an anvil jaw shiftable along the length of a structural member to a selected location. The anvil jaw pivots into a stop position when under compression from a work piece positioned between the jaws. In the stop position, the anvil jaw work face is parallel to the compression jaw work face and is prevented from shifting relative to the structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Inventor: Milton I. Morris
  • Patent number: 5681034
    Abstract: A working table fashioned as a clamping table includes a top frame supported by legs, with two plate-shaped clamping jaws or worktable portions being supported on mutually disposed frame members. One of the clamping jaws is adjustable with respect to the other clamping jaw by two adjusting spindles disposed in the frame members. To enable a more rapid clamping, provision is made that the other jaw is displaceably guided along the frame member and is equipped with locking pawls engaging locking holes provided in the frame member. The locking pawls are adapted to be lifted out of the locking holes by actuating members and are also lockable in an unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Wolfcraft GmbH
    Inventor: Zbigniew Noniewicz
  • Patent number: 5417409
    Abstract: A vise including a body 30 comprising a way 31 integrally formed to a rear column of support 35, a housing 46 attached below way 31, a front column of support 32, and a front jaw 34 attached to the upper portion of column 32. Front jaw 34 having a pad 82 with a clamping surface 83 facing the rear. A hydraulic jack 150 resting within housing 46 while having a ram 138 to project through an opening 33 in front column 32. Ram 138 to push a pad 64 having side arms 63 extending rearward while being tracked along the sides of housing 46. Side arms 63 being attached by hinge to side arms 76 which are joined to a drawbar 75. A carriage 52 being capable of sliding and reversing on way 31. Carriage 52 having a back jaw 54 which has two jaw pads 86 and 90 with opposing clamping surfaces 87 and 91. Carriage 52 also having gripping formations 57GF for adjustable placement of drawbar 75. Rear column 35 is attached by hinge to the rear portion of a platform 94.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Inventor: Glen R. Reddell
  • Patent number: 4951932
    Abstract: The improved adjustment mechanism for work clamping includes a support member which is arranged for attachment to a supporting arm. The support member has a plurality of serrations which are regularlhy spaced across a generally planar support face formed on the support member. A clamping member is arranged for attachment to a locator block and includes a plurality of serrations regularly spaced across a generally planar clamp face. The clamping member is adjustably movable with respect to the support member. A tension member such as a bolt maintains the serrations of the support face and the clamp face in fixed positional engagement with one another when the mechanism is used for work clamping. The tension member is releasable for permitting adjustment of the position of the clamping member relative to that of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Inventor: Jim R. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4858902
    Abstract: A bench vise includes a stationary structure carrying one clamping jaw. A square section tube is arranged to cantilever outwardly from the stationary structure and the tube carries a second clamping jaw. Coarse adjustment can be obtained by tilting the tube about a horizontal axis and then moving it with respect to the stationary structure. Fine adjustment is obtained and clamping forces are exerted by operation of a screw-operated mechanism carried by the tube and acting on the clamping jaw carried by the tube.The tube can be withdrawn from the stationary structure and rotated through 90.degree. in either direction to obtain an alternative orientation of the clamping jaw carried by the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Tekron Licensing BV
    Inventor: Ronald P. Hickman
  • Patent number: 4327903
    Abstract: Herein provided is a vise of the type, in which a movable clamping jaw is made slidable on a base having a stationary clamping jaw at its one end toward and away from the stationary jaw and is connected to the base by means of a connecting member. The base is formed at its widthwise center with a longitudinal groove, which extends in the longitudinal direction through the upper and lower sides thereof, and in its lower side with a number of transverse grooves which extend at the both sides of the longitudinal groove. The movable clamping jaw is formed with a recess which is wider than the longitudinal groove of the base and which has its bottom extending in parallel with the upper side of the base and formed with a through hole. The connecting member is received in the recess such that it can move in the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Inventor: Shosuke Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 4239195
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Assignee: Waterloo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Oltman, Emerson V. Purkapile
  • Patent number: 4232857
    Abstract: Machine vise for clamping workpieces in machine tools characterized by that it has movable strip (3) situated in the vise body guides terminated with a stationary jaw (2). The said strip has thrust recesses (4) a row of its top surface. The securing catch (5) of movable jaw (6) enters these recesses. In the bottom part of the movable strip there is a threaded hole (7) coacting with the vise lead screw (8). The securing catch (5) is in contact with the driving unit (9) secured in a proper position by the known securing member (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Fabryka Przyrzadow i Uchwytow PONAR-BIAL Zaklad Nr 1-Wiodacy
    Inventors: Slawomir J. Bezubik, Stanislaw Laszcz
  • Patent number: 4127260
    Abstract: A portable workbench having a top surface including two vise members, one of which is connected to the supporting structure by a pair of releasable gripping devices which enables the vise member to move, in the plane of the support provided by the underlying support framework, toward the other vise member in a rectilinear motion and also in a rotational motion relative to the second vise member. One or the other of the vise members is also connected to the supporting framework by a pair of vise-operating devices which can be operated to exert a force for moving the vise member a small incremental distance toward the first vise member under force to effect the clamping action. A folding leg structure is provided to support the top surface at convenient working height above the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Inventec International Limited
    Inventor: Ronald P. Hickman
  • Patent number: 4087086
    Abstract: A tension clamp includes, in combination, a main jaw co-extensive with an elongated adjusting arm, a movable jaw co-extensive with a hollow housing through which the adjusting arm is adapted to pass freely, a tension lever pivotally attached to and between two side cheeks of the housing, a secondary level pivotally fastened at one end thereof to the tension lever, the other end of the secondary lever being constrained with respect to the housing by means of a pin in sliding relationship with respect to a pair of registering travelling slots, each formed within a respective one of the side cheeks of the housing, the pin being adapted to engage selectively one of a number of semicircular notches formed within an edge of the adjusting arm remote from the main jaw, and the pair of travelling slots being adapted to guide sliding movement of the pin therealong from a first position wherein the pin is free of engagement with the notches to a second position wherein the pin engages one of the notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Inventors: Lindsay Thomas McGrath, Gilbert Thomas McGrath
  • Patent number: 3964665
    Abstract: Apparatus for automatically welding pipe comprising a cross member positioned between first and second draw rolls, said guide is mounted on said cross member along with adjustable supports containing profile rolls for urging together pipes to be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: Prvni Brnenska strojirna
    Inventors: Juraj Cervenka, Jaroslav Olesovsky