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Class Number: 269
Class Title: WORK HOLDERS
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 HAND MANEUVERED OR WORK SUPPORTED TOOL GUIDES
2 .Relatively movable jaws
3 OPERATOR SUPPORTED
4 .Convertible to bench supported
5 .With opening through handle for work supply
6 .Handle manipulation for jaw actuation
7 SOLIDIFICATION OF WORK CONTACTING MEDIUM
8 MAGNETIC HOLDER
9 PLURAL SELECTIVELY USED HOLDERS
10 .Work stop abutment
11 WITH HOLDER ILLUMINATING MEANS
12 WITH DRY RUN WORK DRIVING MEANS
13 WITH PRODUCT DISCHARGE FACILITATOR
14 .Product mover
15 WITH CATCH PAN
16 WITH PART OR TOOL HOLDING RECEPTACLE
17 WITH GROUND TRAVERSING MEANS
19 WITH PLUMB INDICATOR
20 WITH FLUID MEANS
21 .Vacuum-type holding means
22 .With movable diaphragm
23 .With safety means
24 .Plural positioning means sequentially operated
25 .Cylinder-piston means directly moves jaw(s)
26 ..With equalized pressure on plural (nonopposed) jaws
27 .Cylinder-piston means in series with additional positioning
means
28 ..With separate air means in series with liquid means
29 ..Including self-contained manual pump means
30 ..With common fluid means for holding and releasing
31 ...Cylinder-piston unit rotatably and/or pivotally mounted
32 ..Mechanical means between fluid means and jaw
33 ...Including opposed cylinder-piston means
34 ...Single fluid unit moves plural spaced jaws
35 .With guide means
36 FENCE BOARD HOLDER AND GAUGE
37 PLURAL HOLDERS TO HOLD WORKPIECES RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER
38 .Fletching jig (i.e., arrow feathering holder)
40 .Fixed work-contacting portions for each holder
41 .Workpieces normal to each other (e.g., miter clamps)
42 ..Means for simultaneous actuation of holders
43 .Workpieces parallel to each other (e.g., box-shook clamp)
44 ..Three holders
45 .With means to relatively array or arrange holders
46 SUSPENDED HOLDER
47 HOLDER INSERTED WITHIN WORK APERTURE
48 .With tool couple element
48.1 .Expandable mandrel
48.2 ..Plural pin mandrel
48.3 ...Having intermediate expanding means
48.4 ....And coil spring
49 .Inserted holder movable relative to work backupp
50 .Holder mounted for movement
51 ..Compound or plural movement
52 .Within concentric opening
53 PIN-TYPE HOLDER
54 .With work-overlying clamp
54.1 .With means to drive pin into work
54.2 ..Including opposed coacting pins
54.3 ...Three or more pins
54.4 .With work-underlying support
54.5 ..Pin perpendicularly extended
55 HOLDER MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT
56 .Relative to a station
57 ..Rotary (e.g., dial type)
58 .Including means to shift holder position
59 ..With means to lock shift means
60 ..Screw means
61 ..Gear means
62 ..Treadle means
63 .With indexing steps
64 ..Corrugated
65 ..Threaded
66 ..Cam or eccentric means
67 ..Pin-rack
68 ..Pawl-rack
69 ..Peg-hole
70 ...With bias means
71 .With plural means for changing holder positions
72 ..Single lock for plural means
73 ..Means for dual position only
74 .Means for position lock
75 ..For universal joint
76 ..Set screw type
77 ..Periphery clamp type
78 ...Split ring type
79 ..Effective on a movable brace
80 ..For yoke type
81 ..Of holder to table (i.e., reference base or wall)
82 ..Plane bearing surfaces clamped together
83 ...Radial bearing surface type
84 ....Central clamp
85 ....Plural clamps
86 RELATIVELY MOVABLE JAWS
87 .With tool couple element
87.1 ..With guide means
87.2 ...Slot type
87.3 ...Hole type
88 .Convertible to other type or form of holder
89 .Jaw actuation locks holder position relative to base
90 .With separate means to lock jaw(s) after actuation
91 .Clamp couple element with fastening means
92 ..With plural actuating means
93 ..Responsive to element actuating means
94 ..Rocking-element type
95 .With means to fasten holder to support (e.g., portable)
96 ..Wrench or plier type of work holder
97 ..Clamp type fastening means
98 ...Unitary fastener-jaw and holder-jaw
99 ..Socket type fastening meanss
100 ...Aperture in support
101 ..Threaded fastening means
102 ..Nail or spur fastening means
103 .For cable about thimble (e.g., rigger's vise)
104 .Plural jaw pairs, angularly oriented, for common work
105 ..Three jaw couples in three nonparallel planes
106 ...With actuating means for each couple
107 ..Interrelated actuating means
108 ...Constricting loop common to plural jaw pairs
109 ...Four relatively movable corner-angled jaws
110 ..One actuated jaw carries a second actuated jaw
111 ..Quadrilateral frame type
112 ...Diagonally moved jaw
113 ...Plural actuating means for one side
114 ....Plural actuators on each of two sides
115 ...Actuator located at corner
116 ....Actuators at diagonal corners
117 .....Actuator at each corner
118 ...Actuated jaw couples perpendicularly related
119 ....Actuator for each side
120 ...One couple adjusted and one couple actuated
121 ...Adjustment means intermediate ends of side
122 ...Adjustment means including attached wedge means
123 ....Wedge means attached by chain
124 ...Adjustment means at diagonal corners
125 ....Adjustment means at four corners
126 .Including pivoted yoke frame jaw carrier
127 ..With specific latch means
128 ...Latch means includes jaw actuating element(s)
129 ..With jaw actuating means intermediate yoke legs
130 .Including constrictable loop (strand or articulated) jaw
131 ..Flaccid loop
132 ..With means to actuate a coacting jaw
133 .Weight of a vertically disposed panel actuates jaws
134 .With means for "hold-down" component of force
135 ..With rockable work contacting member
136 ..Moved by linearly acting jaw
137 ..Inclined actuator and/or jaw travel
138 ..With wedge or cam means
139 .With means to align coacting jaw faces
140 .With separate positioning means for each of jaw pair
141 ..Adjustable positioning only
142 ..Separate means to actuate each of a jaw pair
143 ...Portable C-clamp type
145 ...Same actuator type for each jaw
146 ..Means to both actuate and adjust the same jaw
147 ..Portable straight beam type
148 ...Plural parallel beams
149 ...Extensible beam
150 ..Pivoted jaw actuator means
151 .With means to orient actuating force on jaws
152 .Plural jaw pairs
153 ..With common actuating means
154 ..One jaw common to plural coacting jaws
155 ..Acting in intersecting planes
156 .Three coacting work grippers
157 .With means to bias jaw(s) toward nonholding position
158 ..Pedal lever actuatorr
159 ...Including position latch or lock
160 ..Spring coil around actuating screw
161 ..Leaf spring between pivoted jaws
162 ..Spring coil around or abutting cam or cam follower
163 ..With articulated attachment or insert for jaws
164 .With means for lateral adjustment of jaw portions
165 .Means for direct manual adjustment of jaw(s)
166 ..With cant type adjustment lock
167 ...Including separate cant member
168 ....Means for skewing plural members to actuate jaw(s)
169 ....Plus additional means to release cant lock
170 .....With means to bias member into locked position
171 ...Including interlocking abutting surfaces
171.5 ...With tooth-like surface engaging a planar surface
172 ..With relative axial shift of screw-nut actuating means
173 ...Split nut type
174 ....With separate means for lateral motion of segments
175 .....Including weight biased lever
176 .....Common to spaced parallel screw means
177 .....Control travels with screw
178 ....With screw mounted means for lateral segment motion
179 ...With longitudinally rockable actuating screw
180 ....Direct hand tilt
181 ...Half nut type
182 ....With separate means for lateral nut-screw motion
183 .....With pedal means
184 ...Interrupted thread type
185 ....Antipodal screw thread sectors
186 ....Rack-like nut thread sector
187 ....With continuous screw thread
188 ..With common means to both lock and actuate jaw(s)
189 ...Screw-nut type
190 ....With wedge means in the lock mechanism
191 .....Roll or ball gripping element
192 .....With pawl-rack immobilization means
193 ......Pivotal or rockable pawl
194 ....Pawl-rack adjustment lock
195 .....To immobilize nut
196 ...Cam or eccentric type
197 ....Plural cams in series
198 ....Cam in series with diverse actuator
199 ....Plural cam surfaces
200 ....Including radial face and/or axial follower feature(s)
201 ...Toggle type
202 ...Rack-pinion sector
203 ..With clamp (or friction) type adjustment-lock
204 ...Pivoted eccentric for applying lock
205 ...Plus additional means to release lock
206 ...Deformable elastic plug gripping element
207 ..With detent type adjustment-lock
208 ...Peg-hole
209 ....For pivoted jaw
210 ...Movable rack
211 ...Pin-rack
212 ...Pawl-rack
213 ....Detent positionable by rocking of screw actuator
214 ....With lever type actuator acting through pawl
215 ....Spring urged pawll
216 .Means to actuate jaw(s) (i.e., apply holding force)
217 ..Work camming or wedging action type
218 ..With common means for each of coacting jaws
219 ...Spaced parallel screw means
220 ....With specific means for angular positioning of jaws
221 ..Plural means for one jaw
222 ...Plural intergeared screw-nut actuating means
223 ...Including means to move nut
224 ..With yieldable means in actuation train
225 ..Gear type
226 ...Worm
227 ...Rack and pinion
228 ..Toggle type
229 ..Cam, eccentric or wedge type
230 ...With position latch
231 ...Cam surface is jaw face
232 ...Including radial face and/or axial follower feature
233 ...Including cam slot or groove
234 ...Slidable wedge
235 ...Eccentric cylinder or disc
236 ...Cam on end pivoted hand lever
237 ..For pivoted jaw(s)
238 ...First class lever action type
239 ...Third class lever action type
240 ..Screw-nut type
241 ...Differentially threaded
242 ...Right and left threaded
243 ...Rotating nut means
244 ...Screw held at ends for rotation only
245 ...With means for relative rotation of elements
246 ...Screw travels with jaw
247 ....Screw within traveling box-beam guide
248 ....With separable or replaceable nut means
249 ....C-clamp type
250 ....Means to keep faces parallel and/or translate jaw
251 .....Flange and/or slot
252 .....Traveling means parallel to screw
253 ......Plural traveling elements coplanar with screw
254 R ..Bias type (e.g., weight, spring, resilience)
254 DF ...Dental flask
254 D ...Drawing board
254 CS ...Coil spring
254 MW ...Movable weighted member
256 .With paralleling mechanism for jaws
257 .Jaw features
258 ..Angularly alignable
259 ...Attachments and/or inserts
260 ....With hook type fastener means
261 ....With socket type fastener means
262 ....With threaded type fastener means
263 ....With yieldable type fastener means
264 ....Loosely positioned between coacting jaws
265 ..Plural spaced work contacting portions
266 ...Settable elements conformable to work contour
267 ...With pressure equalizing means
268 ...Angular and/or curved jaw face
269 ....Opposed jaw faces diversely shaped
270 ....Complementary to work configurationn
271 ..Attachment(s) and/or insert(s)
272 ...Interdigitated
273 ...Named material
274 ....Nonmetallic
275 ...Yieldable element
276 ...With magnetic fastening means
277 ...Coacting elements loosely positioned between jaws
278 ....Elements jointed by a pivot or link
279 ...Selective
280 ....By substitution
281 .....With yieldable type fastener means
282 .....With threaded type fastener means
283 .....With socket type fastener means
284 .....With detent type fastener means
285 .Specific means for wear, strain, protection, assembly
286 .Specific material(s) used for holder
287 HOLDER ENCLOSES WORK
288 .With tool couple element
289 R WORK-UNDERLYING SUPPORT
290 .With tool couple element
291 ..With work-stop abutment
292 ..Element projectable through support
293 ..In support surface
294 ...Cylindrical element
295 ...Guiding slot for horizontally moving tool
296 .Gapped support
297 ..With movable work-stop abutment
298 ...Abutment movable in gap
299 ....Plural separately mounted slidable abutments
300 ....With abutment position indicator
301 ....With abutment lock
302 ..Enclosed gap
302.1 .Mixing or kneading board
303 .With work-stop abutment
304 ..Attached to movable support portion
305 ..Multiple direction restrainer
306 ..Suspended abutment
307 .With sight gage
308 .With work supply supporting means
309 .Support mounting means
310 ..Support resiliently urged upwardly
311 ..Means to hold plural support blocks
312 ...By through rod
313 ....Blocks enclosed by holder
314 ...Blocks enclosed by holder
289 MR .Movable roller
315 WORK-STOP ABUTMENT
316 .Vertically compressible abutment
317 .Resiliently urged abutment
318 .Abutment mounted between spaced parallel arms
319 .Plural spaced abutment surfaces
320 .With motor drive abutment moving means
329 MISCELLANEOUS
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* CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900 SUPPORTING STRUCTURE HAVING WORK HOLDER RECEIVING APERTURES OR
PROJECTIONSS
901 COLLAPSIBLE OR FOLDABLE WORK HOLDER SUPPORTING STRUCTURE
902 WORK HOLDER MEMBER WITH V-SHAPED NOTCH OR GROOVE
903 WORK HOLDER FOR ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ASSEMBLAGES OR WIRING
SYSTEMS
904 WORK HOLDER FOR POSITIONING ELEMENTS OF BUILDING IN INSTALLED
LOCATION
905 WORK HOLDER FOR DOORS AND DOOR FRAMES
906 WORK HOLDER FOR SKIS
907 WORK HOLDER FOR FISHING FLIES
908 WORK HOLDER FOR CATHODE-RAY TUBES
909 WORK HOLDER FOR SPECIFIC WORK
910 WORK HOLDER FOR PREFABRICATED ROOF TRUSS OR WALL FRAME