Flexible grip die-alignment arrangement
OwnerRichard J. Greenleafinventor
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Abstract
A solid tool gripping and alignment plate, for accurately gripping and holding a tool placed therein in perfect alignment. The tool gripping and alignment plate consists of a flat unitary tool gripping plate with a smooth non-circular opening formed in the tool gripping plate for gripping a tool therein fully 360 degrees about a tool's periphery upon adjustment of the gripping plate. A single threaded adjustment member is arranged through a side of the gripping plate for biasing a portion of the smooth non-circular opening in the tool gripping plate from a non-circular shape into the circular shaped opening for circumferentially gripping of a tool therein.
Claims10
A solid tool gripping and alignment plate, for accurately gripping and holding only a single tool placed therein in a perfect circle, the tool gripping and alignment plate consisting of:
- a flat unitary single-tool gripping plate for gripping only a single tool in a non-circular opening in the gripping plate, the gripping plate having a gap thereacross to define the non-circular opening;
- the non-circular opening formed in the tool gripping plate, for contactingly gripping a single tool therein about a single tool's periphery upon adjustment of the gripping plate;
- an elongated biasing means consisting of a single threaded adjustment member having a longitudinal axis, the biasing means arranged through a side of the gripping plate, with its longitudinal axis in alignment with the gap in the circular opening, for biasing a “J”-shaped finger member portion of the non-circular opening in the tool gripping plate to change the tool gripping portion of the non-circular opening from a non-circular shape into a perfect circle shaped opening for circumferentially gripping a tool therearound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.