Chuck assembly

Abstract

A jaw assembly used with the rotary driving member of an air cylinder to process a workpiece, including a casing having a center through hole into which the rotary driving member of the air cylinder is inserted, a springy jaw holder covered on the casing, the springy jaw holder having two springy thinner areas and a rigid thicker area concentrically arranged around a center through hole thereof, a plurality of jaws and a pair of rails radially provided at an outer side, and a T-block moved in between the rails and fixed at the desired location to hold the jaws on the jaw holder, a socket mounted in between the casing and the springy jaw and coupled to the rotary driving member of the air cylinder, a plurality of counterweights mounted around the socket and connected between the casing and the jaw holder, the counterweights each having a plurality of through holes, and a plurality of axle bushes respectively mounted in the through holes at the counterweights and connected between the casing and the jaw holder by screws and nuts.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.