Datum point location apparatus
AssigneeApplied Power Inc.
InventorsThomas R. Hense, Ronald M. Rudolph
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Abstract
A motor vehicle datum locating fixture includes a base adapted to be secured in one of a plurality of discrete locations on a frame which supports the vehicle and first, second and third bars. A first clap is mounted on the base to fix the first bar in any one of an indefinite number of perpendicular and rotational positions relative to the base. A second clamp is disposed adjacent the end of the first bar for securing the second bar in any one of an indefinite number of perpendicular and angular position relative to the first bar. The second bar also includes a support for supporting the third bar at a fixed perpendicular position relative to the second bar.
Claims8
A motor vehicle datum locating fixture includes a base having means for securing the base to a support frame so that the base can be secured to a frame in any one of a plurality of discreet locations,
- first, second and third elongate bar means which are circular in transverse cross-section,
- first clamping means for fixing said first elongate bar means, in any of a plurality of axial and angular positions relative to the base,
- second clamping means disposed on said first elongate bar means for fixing said second elongate bar means with its longitudinal axis extending perpendicular to the direction in which the axis of said first elongate bar means extends and in any one of a plurality of rotational angles,
- said first and second clamping means including clamp means and means slidably and rotatably engaging said first and second bar means, respectively, to permit said first and second bar means to be slid axially and rotated in their respective first and second clamping means prior to the clamping thereof so that each may be positioned in a selected angular and longitudinal position relative to its respective clamping means, and
- third means for mounting said third elongate bar means with its axis extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the axis of the second bar means extends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.