Abstract: A gyroscopic paint mixer having a rotatable frame with a clamp lock providing automatic transfer from an unclamping to a clamping condition, providing silent operation through the use of one way clutches, the mixer also having a vertical stop apparatus coupled to an access door for stopping and holding the rotatable frame in an upright position, the mixer also having a bail retainer supported by a carriage assembly mounted for rotation on a clamp plate with a cam urging the bail retainer to the side of the frame when the bail retainer is released from the paint container with the paint container in an upright position in the rotatable frame.

Abstract: A clamping assembly for stringing machine includes a slide member, a positioning device, a control device and a rail. The positioning device and a tube are located on two ends of the slide member. The control device includes a pin, a ring-shaped member and a knob. The pin is pivotably connected with the knob. The tube includes an engaging section and a receiving section. The receiving section has a positioning pin and a spring which biases the positioning pin so as to move the positioning pin axially. The knob having a pin hole defined in an underside thereof and can be securely positioned by inserting the insertion member into the pin hole. The knob includes a release button which is connected with a bolt. When pressing the release button, the bolt moves the insertion member which releases the knob.

Abstract: A tension ring lifting assembly (101) for securing around a pipe, the assembly comprising a tension ring (112) and at least one lifting lug (130) by which the tension ring, and a pipe around which the tension ring has been secured, can be lifted. The tension ring comprises: a plurality of collar segments (114, 116) which can be assembled into a ring around the pipe; a plurality of slip segments (140) adapted to fit between the collar segments and the pipe and to make direct contact with the pipe surface, the collar segments and the slip segments when assembled having inclined contacting surfaces such that an inner diameter across said assembled ring, between the inner faces of the collar segments, varies as the segments move up and down in the collar; means for tensioning (152, 154, 156) adjacent collar segments (114, 116) against one another to secure said ring around the pipe; and means for removeably mounting (7, 9) said at least one lifting lug (130) to the tension ring (140).

Abstract: A jaw assembly to hold hooks when tying artificial lures and flies for fishing is disclosed. The jaw assembly utilizes jaw members with angled surfaces and a cam with an off-center pivot pin to open and close the jaws. A tension spring may be used to lessen the clamping force so that the angle of the hook shank can be adjusted before clamping it securely.

Abstract: A pipe stand able to support a conduit includes a table having a first surface, supports pivotably coupled to the table for supporting the table in an elevated position with respect to the support surface, and a shelf extending between the supports and positioned between the table and the support surface. At least one of the supports includes an electrical connector, and a power cord is in electrical communication with the electrical connector and connectable to an external power source. The pipe stand includes a first jaw extending from the first surface of the table and shaped to engage a portion of the conduit, and a second jaw a second jaw extending from the first surface of the table and spaced a distance from the first jaw, the second jaw shaped to engage another portion of the conduit. A clamping device is supported by one of the first jaw and the second jaw.

Abstract: A T-slot clamp including a base and a bar member pivotally connected to the base. A link pivotally connected to the bar member. A handle pivotally connected to the link, wherein the handle is rotatable about an axis of the handle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a securing device for plate-like work pieces, comprising a body member and an anchor member, the body member having a first end and a second end, the first end having an engagement portion, a biasing member to basis the body member laterally within a plurality of aligned openings in said work pieces and biasing the engagement portion past the openings, the engagement portion having an operative surface to engage an outer surface on a first outer work piece, the body member including a threadable portion, the anchor member being operable to engage an outer surface on a second outer work piece, the anchor member including a threaded member to engage the threadable portion, the threaded member be rotationally operational to draw the body member toward the anchor member.

Abstract: A small-sized electric positioning and clamping apparatus is provided. A panel material is supported on a workpiece supporting face and is positioned by a locating pin being fitted into a positioning hole. A clamp arm is accommodated in a slit formed in the locating pin, and the panel material is clamped by the clamp arm. The clamp arm is coupled to a driven rod, and the driven rod is coupled to a driving rod via a compression coil spring. A cam face is formed in a cam block assembled reciprocably in a gear box, and an engagement cam contacting with the cam face is attached to the driving rod. The cam block is reciprocated by an electric motor via a reduction gear mechanism.

Abstract: A pipe stand able to support a conduit includes a table having a first surface, supports pivotably coupled to the table for supporting the table in an elevated position with respect to the support surface, and a shelf extending between the supports and positioned between the table and the support surface. At least one of the supports includes an electrical connector, and a power cord is in electrical communication with the electrical connector and connectable to an external power source. The pipe stand includes a first jaw extending from the first surface of the table and shaped to engage a portion of the conduit, and a second jaw a second jaw extending from the first surface of the table and spaced a distance from the first jaw, the second jaw shaped to engage another portion of the conduit. A clamping device is supported by one of the first jaw and the second jaw.

Abstract: A clamping device that can reduce a burden on a worker and can surely fix an object includes a basic body, a pressing section for pressing a workpiece, a manually operable operating section, and a transmitting body. The transmitting body transmits a movement of the operating section to the pressing section so that the pressing section travels between a pressing position, at which the pressing section presses the workpiece, and a standing-by position, at which the pressing section is spaced apart from the workpiece to stand by. The basic body has a second opposing section opposing a first opposing section which belongs to the transmitting body. The second opposing section has a pressurizing member resiliently urged in a direction in which the pressurizing member goes from the second opposing section toward the first opposing section. The first opposing section has a pressurized surface which the pressurizing member pressurizes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamp apparatus equipped with a cylinder mechanism having a piston. A driving force of the cylinder mechanism is transmitted to a clamp arm, which is retained on a housing through a block body and a link pin that make up a driving force transmitting mechanism, the clamp arm being rotated through a predetermined angle. The block body includes a rotatably supported roller. The block body is guided along an axial direction by displacement of the roller, while the roller is rotated along a guide member of the housing.

Abstract: A purge gas introduction system for an orbital tube welding setup is provided, configured to inject high purity inert purge gas to the interior volume of a tube or tubular component. An o-ring is interposed between an annular base and an annular ring, their junction forming an annular o-ring groove, each part forming one sidewall, with the o-ring fully recessed within the groove, protecting the o-ring during the insertion and removal of a tube. The annular base and an annular ring are configured to receive a tube terminus. The sidewalls of the o-ring groove are divergent one to the other, wherein as the annular ring is drawn towards the annular base, the o-ring is forced partially out of the groove, forming a substantially leak tight seal between the tube and the o-ring. A purge gas from an external source is transmitted to the annular base through a purge connector, then, in turn, introduced to the interior volume of the tube.

Abstract: A small-sized electric positioning and clamping apparatus is provided. A panel material is supported on a workpiece supporting face and is positioned by a locating pin being fitted into a positioning hole. A clamp arm is accommodated in a slit formed in the locating pin, and the panel material is clamped by the clamp arm. The clamp arm is coupled to a driven rod, and the driven rod is coupled to a driving rod via a compression coil spring. A cam face is formed in a cam block assembled reciprocably in a gear box, and an engagement cam contacting with the cam face is attached to the driving rod. The cam block is reciprocated by an electric motor via a reduction gear mechanism.

Abstract: A handling device and method utilizes a clamping arm that is mounted on a guide rod. The axial direction and the rotation direction of the guide rod are intersected each other at right angles. Makes the clamping arm rotate in the rotation direction of the guide rod when the clamping arm is not restricted, and makes the clamping arm move in the axial direction of the guide rod when the clamping arm is restricted. By such arrangements, the clamping arm can perform handling in the horizontal direction and in the vertical direction.

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.

Abstract: An apparatus for precisely forming curved surfaces on a wooden workpiece in which the workpiece is automatically centered on a work table which is controllably movable inwardly and outwardly relative to a rotating cutter. The rotating cutter is slidably mounted withing a supporting frame so that the cutter can be controllably moved past the workpiece as the workpiece is moved inwardly and outwardly relative to the cutter. A template and a template follower precisely controls the movement of the table and the workpiece relative to the cutter to produce precisely formed curved surfaces on the workpiece.

Abstract: A tube cutting apparatus of the type in which jaws carried by relatively reciprocal slides move into and out of clamping engagement with tubing to facilitate severing of lengths of tubing as the tubing is moving rapidly along its lengthwise axis. Each of the jaws is releasably secured to the respective slide by a cam pin which coacts with a cam surface on the jaw to bring an eccentric portion of the cam pin into wedging coaction with the cam surface on the jaw in response to rotation of the pin and firmly and wedgingly secure the jaw to the slide. The jaw may be removed from the slide by simply rotating the cam pin a fraction of a revolution, axially withdrawing the cam pin, and then lifting the jaw out of the slide. Replacement is accomplished by reversing this procedure.

Abstract: A flat rectangular workpiece, such as a photographic plate in a photo-repeating apparatus designed to produce integrated-circuit masks, laterally overhangs a platform of a carriage which is slidable on a mobile supporting table. The platform has two end stops and a side stop defining the relative position of the workpiece thereon, the overhanging edges of the workpiece entering between upper and lower jaws of three grippers -- one on one side and two on the other -- when the carriage is slid into a working position. The lower gripper jaws, constituted by spring-loaded plungers normally held down by suction, are then released to lift the workpiece off the platform while clamping it against the overlying upper jaws.