EP0812660B1 - Dispositif d'étau - Google Patents

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EP0812660B1
EP0812660B1 EP97440043A EP97440043A EP0812660B1 EP 0812660 B1 EP0812660 B1 EP 0812660B1 EP 97440043 A EP97440043 A EP 97440043A EP 97440043 A EP97440043 A EP 97440043A EP 0812660 B1 EP0812660 B1 EP 0812660B1
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jaw
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rack
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Jean Mazingue
Alfredo Baraldi
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Virax SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B1/00—Vices
    • B25B1/24—Details, e.g. jaws of special shape, slideways
    • B25B1/2484—Supports
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B1/00—Vices
    • B25B1/04—Vices with pivoted jaws
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B1/00—Vices
    • B25B1/06—Arrangements for positively actuating jaws
    • B25B1/08—Arrangements for positively actuating jaws using cams
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B1/00—Vices
    • B25B1/06—Arrangements for positively actuating jaws
    • B25B1/10—Arrangements for positively actuating jaws using screws
    • B25B1/12—Arrangements for positively actuating jaws using screws with provision for disengagement

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  • the present invention relates to a device vise in accordance with the preambles of claims 1 and 5 (see DE 12 99 569 B).
  • a vice is usually made up of two jaws, one fixed and the other movable, and of an organ allowing the translation of the movable jaw for tightening, said member consisting in most cases in a screw-nut system.
  • the object to be clamped is placed against the fixed jaw, and the movable jaw is brought to the contact of said object by turning the screw by means of a the sink.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy this drawback by proposing a vice device allowing immediate tightening, not requiring prior adjustment of the jaw spacing.
  • the vice device is defined by claim 1.
  • the finger is housed in a chamber radial to the axis of pivoting of the movable jaw, it is pushed back in direction of the rack by the spring, and it is related to the carne so that the rotation thereof, in the direction opposite to that allowing the movable jaw to be removed from the body, causes the compression of said spring.
  • the cam consists of a half-round not coaxial with its pivot axis, part of which fits into a notch practiced in the region center of the finger, the curved wall coming into contact with the jaw mobile, while the flat wall is likely to come resting against the upper edge of said notch.
  • the pivoting of the cam via the operating lever, allows in one direction of rotation the disengaging of the rack finger and pivoting of the body and the movable jaw towards the fixed jaw in order to block the object to be tightened, and in the opposite direction the engagement of the finger on the rack, therefore the blocking of the body, and, by prolonging the movement, the spacing of the movable jaw of the body, therefore its approximation of the fixed jaw in order to achieve the tightening of said object.
  • the vice device is defined by claim 5.
  • the guides are tubular parts which slide on parallel bars integral with the frame.
  • the cam is secured in rotation to the lever by means of a retractable lug in said lever.
  • the first mode is more particularly intended for clamping cylindrical objects such as tubes, while the second allows clamping flat objects, too, the bits of the first mode of are preferably V-shaped, one concave and the other convex, while the jaws of the second embodiment are flat.
  • a vice device comprises a frame 1, secured by appropriate means, not shown, to a workbench for example, a movable jaw 2 comprising a body 3 and a movable jaw 4.
  • the frame 1 has a jaw 10 and, making projecting perpendicularly, a flat piece 11 whose edge upper is a rack 12 in the shape of an arc of a circle concentric with a transverse hole 13 intended to accommodate an axis 14 for the pivoting assembly of the body 3 and the jaw mobile 4.
  • the movable jaw 4 has a jaw part 40 and two branches 41 passing on either side of the part 11, and in each of which is made a hole 42, one of which only visible, for the passage of axis 14.
  • the body 3 has two branches 30, passing from on either side of the branches 41 of the movable jaw 4, in each of which is made a hole 31, of which only one is visible, for the passage of axis 14.
  • the jaw 4 and the body 3 are recalled in spacing by a spring, not shown, threaded on the axis 14 and bearing on the frame 1 and on the movable jaw 4.
  • the body 3 has at its free end 32 a transverse channel 33 into which a shaft 5 is introduced mobile in rotation under the action of a lever, not represented, and which includes in its central region a eccentric 50 consisting of a non-coaxial half-round.
  • the channel 33 centrally includes a lumen 34 allowing the rear wall 43 of the movable jaw 4 to enter in contact with the eccentric 50.
  • the body 3 also includes internally a dark channel 35, radial to the axis 14, opening between the branches 30 and partially passing through channel 33 at eccentric right 50, and in which is housed a finger 6, of generally cylindrical shape, the end of which lower 60 has transverse notches 61 of shape complementary to that of the teeth 15 of the rack 12.
  • Finger 6 is movable in axial translation in channel 35, and it is pushed back towards the rack 12 by a spring 62 bearing on the bottom 35 ', not visible in the figure, of channel 35.
  • Finger 6 also has in its region central a notch 63 in which takes place a part of the eccentric 50, which allows in particular to prohibit the rotation of finger 6 in channel 35.
  • the displacement of the body 3 and its blocking on the rack 12 allow the object to be clamped to be held between the movable jaw 2 and the frame 1, and the displacement of the movable jaw 2 under the action of the eccentric 50 allows to refine the tightening.
  • the tightening operation can thus be carried out easily and quickly by holding the object to be tightened hand and by operating lever 51 with the other.
  • the vice device comprises a frame 7, comprising a base 70 of planar and rectangular shape, intended to be secured by its underside 71 to a flat support of the table or workbench type, and two walls vertical 72 and 73 facing each other, one at each end of the base 71, the wall 72, higher than the wall 73, carrying on its inner face a jaw 74.
  • Two parallel bars 75 extend between walls 72 and 73 to which they are joined by their ends, while a rack 76 having transverse notches 760 is secured to the upper face 77 of the base 70, parallel to the bars 75.
  • the vice also includes a mobile carriage 20 sliding on the bars 75 via tubular guides 21, only one of which is visible in the figure 4.
  • the carriage 20 comprises a body 36 and a jaw 44 parallel to the fixed jaw 74, the jaw 44 is movable in sliding on the tubular guides 21 which are integral with the body 36.
  • the body 36 is crossed transversely by a axis 88, and it has a central opening 37 in which is engaged the end 80 of a lever 8, not shown in Figure 4, which is pivotally pivoted on axis 88.
  • Space 82 is intended to accommodate a disc 55 comprising a hole 56 for the passage of the axis 88, and having, on about a quarter of its circumference on the side jaw 44, a cam portion 57, that is to say that the radius of this part is not constant and increases from the top down.
  • the disc 55 is in free rotation on the axis 88, but the lever 8 includes means making it possible to solidarity which will be described later.
  • a finger 6 in the shape of a stirrup, comprising a crosspiece 64 surmounted of two parallel uprights 65 each having on their internal edge, in a substantially median position, a notch 66, while the crossmember 64 has on its edge lower and centrally a series of notches 67 of shape complementary to that of the notches 760 of the rack 76, not shown.
  • the finger 6 ' is intended to be introduced into a housing 38 that comprises the body 36, shown in lines discontinuous in Figure 4, opening on the face lower 39 of it than the rack 76, and positioned behind the passage of axis 88.
  • the end 80 of the lever 8 also includes, projecting from each of the outer faces of the discs 81, two pins 84, only one of which is visible in the figure, intended to take place each in one of the notches 66 of finger 6 '.
  • the lever 8 is lowered in the direction of arrow D, which has the effect of rotating the disc 55 including the cam portion 57, by resting on a pin 45 which the jaw 44 has on its rear face 46, pushes back the jaw 44 which slides on the tubular guides 21 and tightens the object 16, the body 36 remaining anchored on the rack 76.
  • the disc 55 is in free rotation on axis 88, possibly being braked by an appropriate means such as an O-ring not shown, its attachment to lever 8 is achieved by via a lug 85 which has at its end a rod 86 slidably mounted axially in the lever 8, and likely to engage in a notch 58 practiced in the edge of the disc 55.
  • the retraction of the lug 85 is carried out by a known type system which will not be described and controlled by a button 87, visible in FIG. 5, which the lever 8 at its free end.
  • the lug 85 can be retracted and disengaged from the notch 58, which allows to lower lever 8 which does not then constitute a gene to perform work on the object 6.
  • lever 51 and the shaft 5 of the first embodiment can also be joined together by a similar device.
  • the device may not include this arrangement, in this case the end 81 of the lever 8 comprises only the part cam 57 which is secured to it by screwing for example.
  • This fixing device 9 comprises a body 90 L-shaped, a branch 91 of which has at its end, projecting perpendicularly, two parallel rods 92 and 93, while the other branch 94 is crossed perpendicularly by a screw 95 provided at its end lower of a handle 96 of maneuvering and its other end of a flat tip 97.
  • Rods 92 and 93 are intended to be introduced into two of the holes 78, visible in the figures 3 and 4, which regularly spaced around its periphery the base 70, while the branch 94 of the body 90 is placed under the flat support, not shown, on which the base 70, then screw 95 is tightened until the end piece flat 97 comes to bear against the underside of the support.
  • the frame 7 can also be secured to a support by screwing, using screws introduced into holes 79 made in the base 70, only one of which is visible in Figure 3.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Gripping Jigs, Holding Jigs, And Positioning Jigs (AREA)
  • Jigs For Machine Tools (AREA)
  • Crystals, And After-Treatments Of Crystals (AREA)
  • Clamps And Clips (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
EP97440043A 1996-06-13 1997-05-07 Dispositif d'étau Expired - Lifetime EP0812660B1 (fr)

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FR9607509 1996-06-13
FR9607509A FR2749790B1 (fr) 1996-06-13 1996-06-13 Dispositif d'etau
FR9701708A FR2759314B1 (fr) 1997-02-11 1997-02-11 Dispositif d'etau
FR9701708 1997-02-11

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JP (1) JPH1086070A (es)
AT (1) ATE215422T1 (es)
CA (1) CA2207806A1 (es)
DE (1) DE69711490T2 (es)
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US6095508A (en) 2000-08-01
DE69711490T2 (de) 2002-11-14
DE69711490D1 (de) 2002-05-08
ATE215422T1 (de) 2002-04-15
ES2175319T3 (es) 2002-11-16

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