US1537958A - Vise - Google Patents

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May ,19, 1925; 7 1,537,958

W. F. MARSHALL VISE FiIed Nov. 6. 1923 \F v INVENTOR 15 wamH/mwz 6&1

ATTOR Y Patented May 19, 1925.

UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

VTILLIAM FRANKLIN MARSHALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y,

VISE.

Application filed November 6, 1923. Serial No. 673,073.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. MAR- SHALL, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful"Improvements in Vises, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. v

This invention relates to vises and particularly to a universally supportedvise or a rise in which the aw members may be collectively rotated in a horizontal plane and also rotated in a vertical plane; and the objcct of the invention is to provide a vise of the class specified comprising 'a standard adapted to be rotatably adjusted in a suitable. support with means for retaining the standard in different positions of adjustment; a further objectbeing to provide means for supporting the jaw members of the device in connection with the standard and to permit of rotatable adjustment of the jaw members in said standard, and means for retaining the aw members in predetermined positions of adjustment; a further object being to provide a device of the class specified which is designed particularly for use in supporting workpieces in different angular positions with reference to a workman to facilitate the fashioning of. the workpiece without inconvenienceto the operator, the workpiece being capable of movement into positions suitable to a workman; and with these and other objectsin view'the invention consists in a device of the class and for the purpose specified which is simple in construction and operation, and efficient in use and which is constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Fig. 1 is a side and sectional viewof a device made according to my invention and indicating the method of its use; and;

Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to that shown in Fig. 1 with parts of the construction in different position and with parts omitted.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown one form of construction for carrying my invention into effect and, in the drawing, 5 represents a main stock or standard of the device comprising a cylindrical base 6 having a depending threaded rod 7 secured thereto or forming part thereof, and the.

upper end of the stock 5 is U-shaped in form orcomposed of a pair of upstanding meml;ers 8. a

a In the construction shown, the rod 7 1s se-- cured to the body 6 by a screw or the like 9 but it will be-understood that I am not limited to this detail of construction. The threaded rod 9 is adapted to pass through an aperture 10 anda work-bench or other support 11 and mounted onthe rod is a washer 12 and nut member 13,the latter. operating to firmly clamp thestock 5 in predetermined positions of rotatable adjustment in connection with the work-bench or support 11.

Mounted transversely of the upper ends of the members 8 is a clamp screw 14, one end of which is in threaded engagement with one i of the members 8 asshown at 15, the other end of which is provided, With an enlarged head portlon 16 111 which is movably mounted a crank rod 17 by means of which the clamp screw 14 may be operated.

Rotatably mounted on the screw 14 between the members'8 is an adjustable jaw supporting member ls'held in different positions of adjustment by'the clamp screw 14:. Mounted transversely of the upper end portion of the member 18 is a vice construction 19 composed of two cooperating jaw members 20 mounted on two feed screws 21 and both of which pass through and project beyond the opposite side of the member 18 and the opposite end port-ions of the separate feed screws 21 and 22 are provided with left and right hand threads as shown. The feed screw. 21 is keyed to the member 18 as shown at 23 to prevent its displacement in said member, and one end portion of said feed screw is provided with'an enlarged head 2% and with a crank rod 25 movably mounted'in connection therewith and by means of whichzthe screw 21 may be rotated. Y I v The feed screw 21 is provided with a gear 26 which is located within the member 18 at one side thereof and this gear operates in connection with a similar gear 27 on the feed screw 22 whereby the rotation of the screw 21 will correspondingly rotate the screw 22 and the left and right threads on said-feed screws are so arranged that the rotation towardand from each other depending upon the direction in which the feed screw 21 is rotated. a

\Vithmy improved universally supported vise construction the jaw members 20 may be swung in a vertical plane through an are greater than one hundred and eighty degrees and also adjusted horizontally to any reo'within th e hundred and sixty def ti provi; g'thesupport 01 a work-' u I 1 Q piece between the. aws 20 Orthe vise 19 in any desirez position, or into a. pos1t1on which will readily 'i flCllltfit-e the operations of such workpiece. The vise is designed particularlyfor use in fine work in performing delicate drilling or boring operations, filing, etc; of workpieces of various lnnds and classes,-it being understood that the workpiece is adjusted in the vise or between the jaws thereof to suit the other adjustment of V the vise as a whole.

It will be understood that I am not necessarily limited to the specific"construction of the vise 19 herein shown and described "nor am 1 necessarily limited to the specific form and construction of the stock 5, or the method of adjustably supporting the same nor. the method of retaining the member 18 in predetermined positions of adjustment, and various changes in and modifications ofthe construction herein shown and described may bemade, within the scope of the appendedclaims without departing from the spirit of my invention orsacriiicing its advantages. i ,7 1 Having fully "described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v I 1. A device of the class described comprising a stock, means for adjustably mounting said stock in connection with a suitable support, a member rotatably mounted in connection with said'stock at right angles to the adjustment of said stock, means for retaining said member in predetermined positions of adjustment, two feed screws mounted in connection with and supported by said member and vise jaws mounted on and movableby said feed screws.

2.-A universallysupported vise of the class described comprising a rotatably ad- 7 other.

justable stock, a visesupporting member rotatably adjustable insaid stock in a plane' at right angles. to the adjustment of said stock through an are greater than one hundred and eighty degrees, and ZLVISG mounted said jaw members toward and from each A device for vuniversally supporting avise comprising-a stock composed of a body-portion, a;threaded rod projecting from one end of said body portion, said rod bein ada ted to ass throu h a suitaa bleisupport, means mounted on said rod for retaining the stock 1n predetermined POSltions of ad ustmenton said support, the

other end portion of said stock being U-shape in form, and a vise supporting I the stock in predetermined positions of adjustment on said support, the other endportion of said stock being U-shaped'in form, a vise, supporting member rotatably. adjustable within the U-shaped portion of said stock through an are greater than one hundred and eighty degrees, andmeans for retaining said member in predetermined positions of adjustment, said means comprising a clamp. screw passed through the forked end-portion of the stool: and through said member. I i

5. A ClBVlCB for universally supporting a vise comprislng a stock composed of a body portion, a threaded rod projecting from one end of said body pOltlOll Salfll rod being adapted to pass through a suitable support, meansmounted on said rod for retaining the stock in predetermined positions of ad j ustment on said support, the other end portion of said stock being U -shaped in form, a vise-supporting member rotatably adjustable within the U-shapedportion otsaid stock, means for retaining said member in predetermined positions of adjustment, said means-comprising aclamp screw, passed through the forked end portion of the stock and through said member, a crank rod for rotating-said screw, a vise mounted in con nection with'said member, said vise comprising two cooperative. feed screws, jaw members mounted on and. movable by said screws, and means for retaining said feed screws against displacement in-said members. V v v i "6. A device for universally supporting a Vise comprising a stock composed of a body portion, a threaded rod projecting from one end of said body portion, said rod being adapted to pass through a suitable support, means mounted on said rod for retainingthe stock in predetermined positions of adjustment on said support, the other end' portion of said stock being U-shapedin vform, a

vise supporting member rotatablyadjustable within the U-shaped portion of said llli) stock, means for retaining said member in predetermined positions of adjustment, said means comprising a clamp screw passed through the forked end portion of the stock and through said member, a crank rod for rotating said screw, a vise mounted in connection with said member, said vise comprising two cooperating feed screws, jaw members mounted on and movable by said screws, and means for rotating one of said feed screws.

7. A device of the class described comprising a standard, means for adjustablymounting said standard in connection with a suitable support, said standard being provided with a fork-shaped projection, a screw mounted in connection with said forkshaped projection, a member rotatably mounted on said screw within said projection and held in different positions of adjustment by said screw, two teed screws supported in said member in parallel relation and provided at the free ends with threaded portions, vise aws mounted on and movable by said feed screws into positions relative to each other.

8. A device of the class described comprising a standard, means for adjustably mounting said standard in connection with a suitable support, said standard being provided with a fork-shaped projection, a screw mounted in connection with said forksliaped projection, a member rotatably mounted on said screw within said projection and held in difierent positions of adjustment by said screw, two feed screws supported in said member in parallel relation and provided at the free ends with threaded portions, vise jaws mounted on and movable by said feed screws into positions relative to each other, gears on said feed screws within said member and gearing said screws one with the other, and means for rotating one of said feed screws for moving said jaws into different positions.

9. A universally supported vise of the class described, comprising astock, means whereby said stock may be rotatably adjustable in connection with a suitable support, the upper end portion of said stock being U-shaped in form, a vise supporting member mounted and movable within the U-shaped end portion of said stock and capable of rotary adjustment through an are greater than 180 degrees, and means passed through said U-shaped stock portion and said member for coupling said parts together and for retaining said member in different: positions of adjustment. 1

10. A universally supported vise of the class described comprising a stock, means whereby said stock may be rotatably adjustable in connection with a suitable support, the upper end portion of said stockbeing U-shaped in form, a vise supporting member mounted and movable within the U-shaped end portion of said stock and capable of rotary adjustment through an are greater than 180 degrees, means passed through said U-shaped stock portion and said member for coupling said parts together and for retaining said member in difierent positionsof adjustment, two vise jaws movably mounted in connection with said member, and means on said member for moving both of said jaws into different positions relatively toeach other.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name this first day of November, 1923.

WILLIAM FRANKLlN MARSHALL.

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