Clamp usable as jig and lifting clamp

Patent · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:862487

Tsuyama, Yoshizo ^[1]

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1. No. 2698-2 Futana-cho, Nara, Nara, JA

There is provided a clamp which is well suited for use as a lifting clamp for lifting and moving materials of assembly in a shipyard, etc. and as a pulling jig in welding and other operations. The clamp comprises a clamp body including a shackle for engagement with a pulling device and a slot for receiving an article, and a pair of jaws provided on the leg portions of the clamp body on the opposite sides of the slot to grip the article in the slot, one of said jaws consisting of a screw rod and the other jaw consisting of a swivel jaw with a spherical surface, whereby when the article clamped in the slot by the pair of jaws tends to slide in any direction with respect to the clamp body, the article is more positively gripped by the pair of jaws.

• Assignee: Tsuyama; Yoshizo (No. 2698-2 Futana-cho, Nara, Nara, JA)
• Patent Number(s): US 3947011
• OSTI ID: 862487
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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