Snap-jaw vice assembly
OwnerWilliam Ferrarainventor
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Abstract
A snap-jaw vice assembly having a jaw base selectively removably couplable to a vice body and having a dovetail portion and at least one member fastener forming a portion of the dovetail portion on the jaw base and including a spring and a spring fastener coupling the at least one member fastener to the jaw base, the assembly also including a first jaw member with a dovetail portion selectively removably and directly coupled to the dovetail portion of the jaw base in a spring-biased retained configuration, wherein the member fastener is configured to apply a downward locking force against the jaw member securing it for utilization on a workbench. The degree of biasing force may be selectively modified by adjusting the spring fastener.
Claims16
A snap-jaw vice assembly comprising:
- a jaw base with a base lower surface selectively removably couplable to a vice body, with two opposing base side surfaces, with a base upper surface, with a first pair of opposing base sidewalls, and with at least one member fastener having a lower flange member, defining an upper opening, defining a fastener channel spanning from the lower flange to the upper opening on the at least one member fastener, coupled to the jaw base with a spring fastener and a spring disposed in the fastener channel and compressively retained by the spring fastener and the lower flange member, the at least one member fastener forming one of the first pair of opposing base sidewalls and the at least one member fastener is operably configured to translate independent of the spring fastener;
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- a first jaw member with a pair of opposing member sidewalls spanning along a member length separating two opposing terminal member side surfaces of the first jaw member and with the pair of opposing member sidewalls selectively removably and directly coupled to the first pair of opposing base sidewalls in a spring-biased retained configuration.
A snap-jaw vice assembly comprising:
- a jaw base with a base lower surface selectively removably couplable to a vice body, with two opposing base side surfaces, with a base upper surface, with a dovetail portion, defining a base channel, and with at least one member fastener forming a portion of the dovetail portion and having a spring and a spring fastener coupling the at least one member fastener to the jaw base and having a bias force, with the spring, to move the at least one member fastener toward the base channel;
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- a first jaw member with a dovetail portion selectively removably disposed in the base channel and directly coupled to the dovetail portion of the jaw base in a spring-biased retained configuration with the at least one member fastener generating a spring-loaded compressive and downward force on the dovetail portion of the first jaw member, wherein the first jaw member is operably configured to decouple from the jaw base by applying a transverse force, opposite the compressive force, by the first jaw member onto the at least one member fastener to overcome the bias force generated with the spring.
A snap-jaw vice assembly comprising:
- a jaw base with a base lower surface selectively removably couplable to a vice body, with two opposing base side surfaces, with a base upper surface, with a first pair of opposing base sidewalls defining a base channel, and with at least one member fastener coupled to the jaw base with a spring, a spring fastener, and having a bias force, with the spring, to move the at least one member fastener toward the base channel, the at least one member fastener forming one of the first pair of opposing base sidewalls;
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- a first jaw member with a pair of opposing member sidewalls spanning along a member length separating two opposing terminal member side surfaces of the first jaw member and with the pair of opposing member sidewalls selectively removably and directly coupled to the first pair of opposing base sidewalls in a spring-biased retained configuration with the at least one member fastener generating a spring-loaded compressive and downward force on the first jaw member, wherein the first jaw member is operably configured to decouple from the jaw base by applying a transverse force, opposite the compressive force, by the first jaw member onto the at least one member fastener to overcome the bias force generated with the spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.