Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7093811 | Clamping base The present invention is a clamping base, including a body capable of engaging with and holding a camera, and a second wall portion capable of being detached from and engaged with the body. The clamping base further includes a moving portion. The moving portion incl... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073783 | Hydraulic-operated vise device A hydraulic-operated vise device for holding and clamping objects for working on the objects. The hydraulic-operated vise device includes a base assembly including a housing sleeve and also including a first jaw member being attached to the housing sleeve; and inclu... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7017898 | Apparatus for securing a workpiece An apparatus for securing a workpiece in accordance with the invention, such as a vise, includes a base for supporting the apparatus on a work surface, a back jaw member connected to the base for engaging a first portion of the workpiece secured by the apparatus, an... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6955344 | Tool and connector system for clamping A system of tools and connector assemblies can be erected in numerous arrangements and configurations, in positive, selected interrelationships, for the mounting and support of a workpiece or the like. Engagement portions on the tools are clamped by the clamping blo... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6409162 | Hinge In accordance with this invention an eccentrically immobilized hinge-type device is provided having a yoke shaped hinging element with cylindrical peripheral surfaces and a channel shaped hinging element with an eye-ended connecting rod, and a relatively ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6361034 | Magnetic insert in jaw plate for holding vise parallels A magnetic holder of a vise jaw that has a permanent magnet mounted in the jaw for holding metal or other magnetic material workpiece support parallels in position against the jaw clamping surface to properly hold the parallels during the clamping operati... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6346155 | Laser bar clamp A clamp for holding laser components during a facet coating process. The clamp includes a first elongate member for contacting a first side of the laser components and a second elongate member for contacting a second opposing side of the laser components.... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6050559 | Bar clamp for wood manufacturing The present invention provides a bar clamp made of lightweight parallel metal bars, e.g., aluminum, having movable or adjustable contacting attachment bodies which allow the clamp to be used for various applications. The bar clamp of the present invention... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6003571 | Flower like rosette cutting device A router guide apparatus for use in forming rosette designs in a work piece includes a frame having a work surface with a wheel rotatably mounted upon the work surface. The wheel has a plurality of position stops. The frame includes an adjustable guide fo... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5531428 | Adjustable closure force control device for a bench vise and method The invention discloses an adjustable closure force control device for a screw-type vise and a method for selectively controlling the closure force of the vise. The control device uses a nut barrel for threadingly receiving a screw of a screw-type vise wi... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5442844 | Apparatus for protecting internal elements of a workholding apparatus A plate member adapted to be received on the base of a machine vise having a longitudinal slot or cavity therein is provided to prevent the entry of foreign material into the slot or cavity. The plate member may also be provided with slots therein to limi... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5186228 | Workbench and mountable implements A workbench including a work top which is supported by a base. The base includes a plurality of attachment points of which various implements such as clamps, brackets and other accesories are removably mountable such that they are secured to the workbench... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5063013 | Vise Disclosed is a vise for clamping a workpiece in an adjusted position during operation on the workpiece by a tool, particularly the cutting wire of an electric wire cut discharge machine. For maintaining accuracy of the clamped workpiece and still occupyin... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5043144 | Self-centering vise for holding a sample in a laboratory instrument chamber A self-centering vise for holding a sample in a laboratory instrument includes a pair of elongated rails, end plates attached to opposite ends of the rails disposing them in side-by-side spaced relationship to define a guide channel having a dovetail shap... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4971301 | Vise A vise having a fixed jaw on a body which has a base secured to a work surface and may be rotated through 180°. The body has a guide slot formed therein and a movable jaw is slidably received in the guide slot. A guide rod is disposed through an opening ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4966350 | Wide-opening vise By providing apparatus such as that shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,529,183, but with the removable central jaw bolted from the top and means provided at the handle end of the device to fix the location of the one of the movable jaws of the structure as shown in... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4925168 | Vise A vise for clamping a workpiece in an adjusted position during operation on the workpiece by a tool, particularly the cutting wire of an electric wire cut discharge machine. For maintaining accuracy of the clamped workpiece and still occupying a minimum o... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4807863 | Vise with two sets of clamping jaws An improved vise has two sets of clamping jaws. Two fixed jaws are on a fixed body and two sliding jaws are supported by a sliding body and driven simultaneously in the same direction by one threaded shaft. Each sliding jaw is paired with a fixed jaw and ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4763887 | Adjustable range vise An adjustable range vise is disclosed having a pair of clamping jaws, each of which is independently movable. Each jaw is carried by a respective horizontal slide. A first horizontal slide is received in a slot formed in one end of a fixed vise body, exte... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4758159 | Adjustable mandrel An adjustable mandrel for grasping and supporting a workpiece such as a dental retention device. The mandrel includes a stationary jaw having a body portion with a dependent grasping leg, and a movable jaw also having a body portion with a depending grasp... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4697801 | Parallel vice A forwardly opening parallel vice has a housing (1) which can be fixed to a workbench (3) and which carries the stationary clamping jaw (2) and which is provided with a quadrangular guide structure. Displaceable in the guide structure is a hollow slider w... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4684115 | Machine tool vice The invention relates to a machine tool vice having a vice body and a slide guided in the vice body, with a clamping mechanism working between the vice body and the slide, in which there are two jaws, which are connected with the vice body and the slide r... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4605208 | Combination automatic and manual vise apparatus This invention is a combination automatic and manual vise apparatus selectively operable (1) as a normal manually operated table vise structure; and (2) as a power driven vise structure. The automatic and manual vise apparatus includes a main support base... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4529183 | Method of machining and vise for use therein To make parts requiring machining with the workpiece vise-held in different orientations, there is provided a precision vise having first and second pairs of jaws, each pair having a member which is fixedly located with respect to a reference location. Th... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4262892 | Quick-operating bench vise A quick-operating bench vise comprises a movable jaw with a slide and provided with a lead screw, a fixed jaw formed with a box shaped structure through which the slide of the movable jaw is accommodated, a clutching device including a half nut for engagi... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4205833 | Bench vise A bench vise which incorporates a self locking fixed jaw operating with a pair of interlocking surfaces reacting as the fixed jaw is loaded. As the workpiece is tightened down, the jaw tends to be forced downwardly against the sliding portion of the vise ... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4170345 | Holding clamp assembly Disclosed herein is a holding clamp assembly disposed on a table having parallel trackways disposed thereon. Riding within these trackways are diverse types of clamping mechanisms which cooperate and coact with one another to provide retention means for o... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4133519 | Vise with selectable jaw faces In a vise, such as now commonly used to hold a workpiece for drilling, cutting and finishing, the stationary main body is provided with a replaceable jaw member having a plurality of jaw faces, and the adjustible jaw body is formed as a jaw unit having a ... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4102372 | Device to fix the wood-stock with hooks of different length and for remote controlled extension or retraction of said hooks from or in the vertical or almost vertical supporting table of a veneer slicing machine A generally vertical veneer slicing device having a plurality of holding hooks for supporting a wood-stock on a generally vertical supporting table. Each of the respective holding hooks include a pair of complementary adjustable jaw members for gripping t... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4070010 | Vice for a machine tool bed A vice particularly suitable for mounting on a machine tool bed is described. The vice comprises a fixed jaw with a base and two guides thereon, a mobile jaw, a mobile carriage with guide gibs on the two guides, a motion transmission for prepositioning th... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4040613 | Vise construction A vise construction is formed by a fixed body which is to be mounted to a support surface. The fixed body has a slide passage formed therein to receive a guide member or chill bar and a threaded passage is also formed therein to receive the clamping screw... | 08/09/1977 |
