US3377061A

US3377061A - Adjustably mountable woodworker's vise

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Publication number: US3377061A
Application number: US528193A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jerry J Watson
Original assignee: Wilton Corp
Current assignee: Wilton Corp
Priority date: 1966-02-17
Filing date: 1966-02-17
Publication date: 1968-04-09
Anticipated expiration: 1985-04-09

Description

April 9, 1968 J- J. WATSON 3,377,061

ADJUSTABLY MOUNTABLE WOODWORKER S VI SE Filed Feb. 1'7, 1966 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I N VENTOR.

Jerry J. Wclrson Ap 196 J. J. WATSON 3,371,061

$3 I *7 Q\ 1-: -l' g ADJUSTABLY MOUNTABLE WOODWOPKER'S VISE Filed Feb. l7,, 1966 2 Sheets-Sheet z INVENTOR.

' Jerry J.- Watson Attorney United States Patent 3,377,061 a ADJUSTABLY MOUNTABLE WOODWORKERS VISE Jerry J. Watson, Lombard, lll., assignor to Wilton Corporation, Schiller Park, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Filed Feb. 17, 1966, Ser. No. 528,193

9 Claims. (Cl. 269-101) My invention is directed to vises and adjustable clamping devices adapted to be adjustably and removably mount ed on any portion and on or at either of the ends of work benches or of other Work supports.

Presently known vises which have angular projecting jaws have a single apertured supporting and mounting plate connected to or integral with the vice body which plate is securable to the edge or under side of a bench. Such present vises with an angular jaw can only be secured at one end of a work bench, and purchasers and users can only mount such woodworkers vise at one end of a bench and not on either of the bench ends. This necessitates a user to purchase a left hand vise if securance to the left end of a bench is required, and if securance to a right bench end is desired, such user has-to purchase a differently constructed bench vise so that the angular leg of the jaws will project from the right end portion of a bench. This requires dealers and distributors to buy and maintain an inventory of two kinds of vise-s of different construction, and increases the manufacturing costs of making vises of different constructions for different installations.

Such present vises have only one flat supporting or base plate requiring its securance to a bench to only one position at one end of a bench and which said plates cannot be suitably secured to the opposite end of a bench.

It is an object of my invention to provide novel adjustable vises and clamping devices which have stationary and movable jaws which are of angular shape and in which the jaws have one portion thereof positioned to extend horizontally to receive work pieces from above and which jaws have another integral leg work engaging portion extending in a generally vertical direction and beyond either end of a bench or work support; and whereby one of said opposed jaw portions will extend outwardly relative to the left end of a bench when the vise is mounted adjacent such left end, and wherein the other of said jaw portions of the same vise will extend outward relative to the right end of a bench with the vise mounted adjacent the right end of the bench, said jaw and grip-ping portions providing for gripping and holding long work pieces sub stantially vertically at either of the two ends of a bench to permit performance of work upon the upwardly extending portion of said long pieces adjacent either end of a bench.

A'further object of my invention is the provision of two apertured and connected mounting and supporting plates or webs on the body of vises which have their normally securable apertured faces at right angles to each other, so

that when the vise is mounted at one end of a bench, only one of said mounting members will be fiat against the underside of a bench top and securable thereto by bolts or screws, and when the vise is to be mounted at the opposite end of a bench, the other of said mounting plate faces will be positioned and secured against the flat underside of the bench to be secured to the latter by bolts or screws.

A further object of my invention is the provision of vises which have transversely extending jaw portions adapted to project beyond the ends of a bench and which have at least two mounting members or plates or webs on the bodies of the vises 'angularly disposed relative to each other to permit optional easy sccurance of the vises at either the right end or at the left end of a bench, thereby providing for easy selective changing of position of such vises and for selective versatile mounting of the same vises in either left or right hand positions relative to work benches.

A further object of my invention is to eliminate the increased work and cost of manufacturing different types of woodworkers bench vises adaptable for securance to both ends of work benches and to eliminate the necessity for dealers to stock two different vises to fulfill the ditferent trade requirements.

Other and further objects of my invention will be apparent from the following description and claims.

On the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of my novel adjustable woodworkers vise which is adjustably mountable in different positions.

FIG. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

FIG. 3 is a partially cross-sectional view and partially elevational view taken on a vertical plane indicated by the lines 33 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the stationary. jaw, taken on a vertical plane, with parts in section and illutrating the vise secured on a left hand portion of a bench.

FIG. 4a is a partially elevational and partially cross sectional view of my novel vise illustrating same mounted in a different position on a right hand portion of a bench.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the stationary jaw and body and mounting plate in one of two optional positions for selective securance.

As shown on the drawings:

Referring to the drawings, numeral 10 designates a passaged metal body which has an integral flat faced stationally jaw 11 and a pair of integrally formed rea-rwardly extending base plates or mounting and supporting

plates

12 and 13 whose mounting faces are substantially at right angles to each other, as indicated in FIG. 5. Each of said

mounting plates

12 and 13 have a plurality of apertures 14 therein, preferably three in number, as indicated in FIG. 5.

The metal body 10 has a normally depending integrally formed apertured extension 15, and a transversely extending apertured reinforcing web 16, having spaced apertures therein, is formed integrally with the

mounting plates

12 and 13, as indicated in FIG. 5.

The stationary jaw 11 has two connected grippable portions, one grippable portion 11a projecting beyond the plane of the mounting plate 13 and being integral with the portion 11 of said jaw, as indicated in the drawings.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the front movable jaw has formed therein two threaded recesses 38, each being inward of the straight edge of the grippable portions of said jaw 19. A slotted dog or pawl 39, illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3,-is slidably mounted on the outer face of each of the two integral gripping portions of the movable jaw 19, as indicated in FIGS. 1 and 3. A knurled threaded screw 40 is threaded in each of the two threaded recesses 38, and which is manually rotatable to release said slidable dogs 39 or to secure it in either retracted position or in outwardly projected position as indicated in dotted lines in FIG. 3. Each of said dogs 39 is slidably mounted and guided on a metal stud 41 whose inner end portion is suitably secured in the jaw 19, as illustrated in FIG. 3. Said dogs 39, when projected, provide a means for pressing and clamping relatively wide objects, such as doors or panels, while the latter are supported on the workbench and when their opposite edge portions engage a wall or other vertical stationary suppo Numeral 19 designates the metal movable jaw, which is generally of right-angular shape and which has a relatively thicker angular a'pertured reinforcing portion 20 integrally formed. The downwardly extending portion 20 of said jaw has a recess therein in which is securely mounted one end of a guide'rod 21, and the opposite leg of said jaw portion has a recess therein in which is securely mounted, preferably by means of a pin, one end of a guide rod 22.

The intermediate portion of said jaw 19 has an annular recessed passage 23 formed therein, as indicated in FIG. 3, in which is journalled one end portion of a sCreW or threaded spindle 24, shown in elevation in FIG. 3. Spindle 24 has an annular integral flange 25 thereon, as shown in FIG. 3, which seats in and rotates in the recess of the said passage in jaw 19. The adjacent end portion of the spindle or screw 24 has secured on it a metal T-shaped fitting 26, preferably by means of a metal pin 27. A grippable handle 28 of conventional type is slidably mounted in the transverse passage of the T fitting 26, as indicated in the drawings.

The passage 30 of the body 10 is internally threaded and said spindle or screw 24 threadedly engages it and extends through an aperture 31 formed in the reinforcing web 16, and same has a suitable ring or washer 32 secured thereon to limit the withdrawing and retracting movement of said screw and of said movable jaw.

The normally inner portion of the stationary jaw 11 has two apertures or passages 33 therein in which the

guide rods

21 and 22 are slidably mounted respectively, and said

guide rods

21 and 22 are also slidably mounted in suitable holes 29 formed in spaced apart positions in the web 16, as indicated in FIGS. 4, 5 and 1.

Two holes are formed in the upper portion of stationary jaw 11, and screws 37 are adapted to be mounted therein to and in securing said jaw to a work bench 39 as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4.

The

mounting plates

12 and 13 provide means for optional and selective alternative mounting of said vise at either the left or at the right end of a work support or work bench 39, this by means of a plurality of lag screws or equivalent fastening elements which are partially illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4 and 4a. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 4, the vice is suitably secured by screws 35 as indicated, at the left hand portion of a work bench in such a way that the opposed vertically extending portions of the stationary jaw and of the movable jaw will be open to the left to quickly and easily receive longer vertically or upwardly disposed work pieces.

Due to the wide variety of work bench installations and mountings thereof, either adjacent to a wall or to other stationary objects, or due to situations where the worker desires to have work pieces gripped adjacent the left hand portion of a bench, it is in such instances desirable to mount the said vise adjacent to and connected to the left hand end of a work support or work bench, as illustrated in FIG. 4.

In instances where it is necessary or desirable that the work pieces be gripped and held at the right hand portion of a work bench or the like, the said described vise having my novel described features would be installed and secured in a position at the right hand end portion of a work bench as illustrated in FIG. 4a, and wherein the other of said mounting plates would be secured against the bench and wherein the opposed vertically extending jaw portions (which in the previous installations were in horizontal position) would be open to the right to receive and to clamp work pieces in various positions.

Among the advantageous and novel structural features of my described vise are the novel means including the right-angled base supporting and mounting plates which provide for optional and alternative securance of the said vise either in a lefthand position, or in a righthand position relative to work benches and work supports, and this has the further advantage of eliminating the additional cost of manufacturing two separate and different vise constructions in order to meet the varied mounting and installation requirements in the trade. This also provides the further advantage that manufacturers, dealers and jobbers do not have to carry in stock two separate kinds of vises to fulfill the different requirements of customers and users. A further advantage is the provision of a slidably mounted and selectively projectable dog on both of the grippable portions of movable jaws of vises, this for the purpose of releasably holding relatively wide and large objects in desired positions upon work supporting benches.

While the foregoing specification sets forth the invention in specific terms, it is to be understood that numerous changes in the shape, size and materials may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed hereinafter, and it is contemplated that various changes may be made in the embodiment of the invention herein specifically described without departing from or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention or any features thereof, and nothing herein shall be construed as limitations upon the invention, its concept or structural embodiment as to the whole or any part thereof except as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In an adjustable woodworkers vise, a metal passaged body of substantially right angled section and having mounting faces angularly disposed relative to each other;

an apertured stationary jaw of right angled shape integral with said body;

a projecting re-iuforcing web integral with said body having spaced apertures therein;

an apertured movable jaw of right angled shape;

a spindle rotatably mounted in said movable jaw and threadingly engaging said stationary jaw;

and guide rods connected to said movable jaw and slidably engaging apertures of said web and of said stationary jaw;

one of said mounting faces being mountable at one end of a bench or the like and the other of said mounting faces being securable to the opposite end of a bench.

2. An adjustably mountable vise as recited in claim 1 and in which each of said jaws have two integral gripping portions at right angles to each other so that one of said gripping portions of both said jaws will be mounted in opposed relation to receive and clamp vertically extending work pieces, while the other of said jaw gripping portions will extend transversely to receive and clamp transversely extending work pieces.

3. An adjustably mountable woodworkers vise as recited in claim 2, in which one of said mounting faces is securable to one end portion of a work bench to thereby position one of the gripping jaw portions in a vertical direction at one end of a bench;

and in which the other of said mounting faces is securable to the opposite end of a bench to position the other of said gripping jaw portions adjacent such opposite end of said bench.

4. An adjustably mounted vise as recited in claim 2, in which said movable jaw has at least one slotted slidable s;

and a manually operable screw for selectively holding said dog in either retracted position or in projected position partially beyond the edge of said jaw;

said jaw being adapted to aid in clamping large work pieces.

5. In an adjustable woodworkers vise, a metal body having a stationary jaw of substantially rightangled shape in which one leg portion of said jaw is adapted to project transversely and downwardly relative to the position of the other leg portion thereof;

a movable jaw of substantially right-angular shape having guide means and having one of its integral leg portions adapted to extend downwardly relative to the other of said jaw leg portions;

a rotatable screw journaled in said movable jaw and threadingly engaging said stationary jaw;

an apertured angular supporting plate formed integral with said body having two flat faces angularly disposed relative to each other to provide for selective mounting of either of said plate angular faces to an under side of either end portion of a work bench;

one of said portions of said stationary jaw and of said movable jaw being positionable and securable in transverse substantially horizontally extending positions while the other of said jaw portions is positionable in vertically extending positions adjacent to one end of a work bench, said vise being selectively securable at either end of a work bench, and guide rods on said movable jaw and slidably mounted in said stationary jaw.

6. An adjustable vise as recited in claim 5, and having an adjustable dog slidable on one portion of said movable jaw and adapted to be projected upwardly above the edge of said jaw to selectively engage and clamp wide work pieces.

7. An adjustable vise as recited in claim 5, charac- 2O terized by said angular mounting plate being integral with said vise body and being of substantially right angled shape.

8. An adjustable vise as recited in claim 5, and in which said guide means includes an apertured extension on said stationary jaw and in which said guide rods are connected to said movable jaw and slidably engaging the apertures of said extension.

9. An adjustable vise as recited in claim 5, and having a second selectively movable dog slidably mounted on the second connected portion of said movable jaw and in a position to be projected beyond the other gripping edge of said movable jaw.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 382,360 5/1888 Hermann 269252 X 1,489,110 4/1924 Billington 269-178 2,450,303 9/1948 Sasgen 269245 ROBERT C. RIORDON, Primary Examiner. D. R. MELTON, Assistant Examiner.

Claims

1. IN AN ADJUSTABLE WOODWORKER''S VISE, A METAL PASSAGE BODY OF SUBSTANTIALLY RIGHT ANGLED SECTION AND HAVING MOUNTING FACES ANGULAR DISPOSED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER; AN APERTURED STATIONARY JAW OF RIGHT ANGLED SHAPE INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY; A PROJECTING RE-INFORCING WEB INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY HAVING SPACED APERTURES THEREIN; AN APERTURED MOVABLE JAW OF RIGHT ANGLED SHAPE; A SPINDLE ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN SAID MOVABLE JAW AND