Parallel Jaws Locking Wrench/Plier
OwnerKin-Wai Yeunginventor
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Abstract
An improved parallel-jaws locking wrench/plier with toggle action includes a body element, a fixed jaw, and a moving jaw capable of moving rectilinearly by means of an action cam, which is pivotally connected to a locking lever coupling respectively to the upper ends of a fulcrum bar and a releasing lever thereof. A handle secured to the body element has an axially adjustable screw to regulate the opening of the jaws. This is the chosen embodiment to develop this invention, which enables the toggle wrench/pliers to use interchangeable jaw sets with simple and convenient steps.
Claims19
A parallel jaws locking wrench/pliers with toggle action, comprising:
- a. a body element being constructed with two body matching parts being bound together with screws,
- b. an outstanding “fixed jaw-post” being disposed upward from the right top corner of said body element,
- c. a channel, having a length equal to the width of said body element and being under said “fixed jaw-post”, being disposed between said body matching parts,
- d. a void, having a sufficient volume to allow the rocking movement of an action cam and the simultaneous translation movement of a left tapered bar and a right tapered bar, being formed between said body matching parts and being under and communicating with said channel,
- e. an outstanding “movable jaw-post” being integral of and being disposed upward from the “left midsection” of a movable part having cross sectional dimensions equal to those of said channel and being freely slidable in said channel,
- f. said left tapered bar and said right tapered bar being respectively extended vertically downward from the two respective ends of said movable part into said void, a right edge of said left tapered bar and a left edge of said right tapered bar being straight and parallel to each other, allowing an interface being freely slidable therebetween,
- g. a right side lower corner of said action cam being pivotally supported inside said void;
- a top corner of said action cam being pivotally connected with proper means to said movable part to effect the translational movement of said “movable jaw-post”;
- a left side lower corner of said action cam being pivotally connected to an upper pivotal hole of a locking lever,
- h. a handle being formed to have a cross section of channel shape and being securely attached to said body element with screws and it having a lower end being equipped with internal threads to accept an axially adjustable screw,
- i. a fulcrum bar having a lower end being kept constantly engaged with the upper end of said axially adjustable screw by a tension spring connected between said action cam and said handle,
- j. the lower pivot hole of said locking lever, the pivot hole of a releasing lever, and the pivot hole at the upper end of said fulcrum bar being journaled by one pivot,
- k. two outstanding elements being disposed close to the pivot of said releasing lever and to the respective opposite outside walls of said releasing lever,
- l. the upper end of a length of spring wire being anchored by the upper and the lower pivots of said locking lever, and
- m. the lower end of said spring wire being held against the releasing lever, preventing the releasing lever from unintentionally swinging out of the locking lever during operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.