Clamping device

• US 3,307,235 A
• Filed: 02/23/1965
• Issued: 03/07/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis W. Hennings
• Original Assignee: Louis W. Hennings
• Inventors: Hennings, Louis W.
• Application Number:
  US04/434,357
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• US Class Current: 24/535
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/065 using screw-thread elements F16B2/08 - F16B2/12 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44684 with operator for moving biased engaging face
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44974 Threaded cylindrical rod and mating cavity

Claims

3. A CLAMPING DEVICE HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED-APART CLAMPING MEMBERS EACH HAVING AN OPENING IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE OTHER, A STUD EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENINGS AND HAVING THREADS ADJACENT THE ENDS THEREOF, THE THREADS ADJACENT ONE OF SAID ENDS BEING OF RELATIVELY LARGER LEAD THAN THREADS ADJACENT THE OTHER OF SAID ENDS, MEANS COACTING WITH THE THREADS OF ONE LEAD FOR LOCKING SAID STUD IN PLACE, THE THREADS OF THE OTHER LEAD EXTENDING LOOSELY THROUGH ONE OF SAID MEMBERS SUFFICIENTLY FAR TO ACCOMMODATE A HANDLE NUT FOR OPENING AND CLOSING OF SAID CLAMP DEVICE, AND MEANS AT ONE OF ENDS OF SAID STUD FOR ROTATING SAID STUD WHEN SAID MEANS FOR LOCKING SAID STUD ARE RELEASED TO PROVIDE TAKE-UP ADJUSTMENT OF SAID CLAMP DEVICE.