Resilient vise jaw
First Claim
1. An improved jaw for a vise intended to apply relatively even pressure along a surface of the clamped work piece, and comprising a base and a plurality of substantially identical cantilevered beams formed of a refractory material, said beams rigidly attached to the base along a pre-selected line and extending along a first pre-selected direction, and each having a load-bearing surface, all load-bearing surfaces exteriorly facing in a second pre-selected direction substantially perpendicular to the first pre-selected direction, the plurality of said load-bearing surfaces forming the jaw face.
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Abstract
An article and a method for manufacturing the same, for use as a jaw face of a vise and which applies pressure evenly along any approximately flat surface clamped therein. The face comprises a plurality of cantilevered beams integral with the body of the jaw. The beams are spaced apart from each other and in the preferred embodiment have along a corresponding exterior surface of each, a pair of projections the tips of which are tangent to a geometrically flat plane. When the jaw is used, the projections bear against a flat surface of the workpiece to be clamped and the individual beams deflect slightly to correct for deviations from flatness in the flat surface, thereby assuring that the clamping force is distributed relatively evenly along the surface.
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- 1. An improved jaw for a vise intended to apply relatively even pressure along a surface of the clamped work piece, and comprising a base and a plurality of substantially identical cantilevered beams formed of a refractory material, said beams rigidly attached to the base along a pre-selected line and extending along a first pre-selected direction, and each having a load-bearing surface, all load-bearing surfaces exteriorly facing in a second pre-selected direction substantially perpendicular to the first pre-selected direction, the plurality of said load-bearing surfaces forming the jaw face.
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7. An improved vise jaw for applying even pressure along a flat surface, comprising a generally rectangular refractory prism having:
- a gripping face and first and second sides intersecting opposing first and second straight line edges of the gripping face respectively;
a plurality of identical and parallel first slots cutting the entire breadth of the gripping face at equally spaced intervals, extending part way through the prism and defining between them surfaces commonly tangent to a selected flat plane; and
having a second slot completely cutting the first side along a line parallel to the first gripping face edge, extending part way through the prism toward the second side, and intersecting each first slot. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- a gripping face and first and second sides intersecting opposing first and second straight line edges of the gripping face respectively;
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