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US 6,484,783 B1Granted
Workpiece holding apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeThermwood Corporation
InventorKenneth J. Susnjara
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Abstract
The present invention is a workpiece holding device. The device should be shaped in a configuration tailored to the workpieces that are to be held together or dispersed. The device should have a flow channel that would transmit hydraulic force being applied to the device so as to either retain or disperse workpieces adjacent to the device.
Claims28
A holding device, comprising:
- a cube with a plurality of surfaces and having a cavity of space therein;
- a plurality of openings being formed on a predetermined number of the plurality of surfaces;
- wherein when a plurality of panels being placed adjacent to the plurality of openings, and when a hydraulic force being applied to one of the openings, the hydraulic force is being applied to each panel.
A device, comprising:
- a body;
- a cavity of space within the body;
- and
- a plurality of openings being formed on a predetermined number of locations on the body interconnected to the cavity of space;
- wherein a plug is removably attached to each of the plurality of openings.
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A device, comprising:
- a body;
- a cavity of space within the body;
- and
- a plurality of openings being formed on a predetermined number of locations on the body interconnected to the cavity of space;
- wherein a seal is installed on:
- each surface encompassing all openings therein.
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A device, comprising:
- a body;
- a cavity of space within the body;
- and
- a plurality of openings being formed on a predetermined number of locations on the body interconnected to the cavity of space;
- wherein a seal is installed on each of the plurality of openings.
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A device, comprising:
- a body having one of a cubical shape, a rectangular shape, a polygonal shape, a tetrahedron shape, an octahedron shape, a truncated prism shape, a parallelepiped shape, a pyramidal shape and a spherical shape;
- a cavity of space within the body;
- and
- a plurality of openings being formed on a predetermined number of locations on the body interconnected to the cavity of space;
- wherein a corner formed by a number of vertex of various edges of surfaces is removed to form a polygonal surface.
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A vacuum clamping device comprising:
- a cubed shaped embodiment;
- a plurality of holes bored from three adjacent surfaces of said embodiment into a common center chamber;
- a plurality of channels milled into three adjacent surfaces of said embodiment;
- a plurality of gaskets disposed in said channels;
- a corner of said embodiment being cut off to form a flat surface, disposed in equiangular alignment with three intersecting sides;
- a hole bored through and perpendicular with said flattened surface, into a common center chamber;
- a valve attached to said hole, disposed in axially alignment with said hole;
- and
- a section of pipe attached to said valve, disposed in axially alignment with said valve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.