US607567A - Wallace jordan - Google Patents

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- Patented luly l9, I898;

W. JORDAN.

I BOARD CLAMP.

(Application filed May 7, 1896.)

(No Model.)

.M W a 5 NITED TA'IES ATEN'I FFICE.

\VALLAGE JORDAN, OF EMERALD, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO S. E. LINDIFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

BOARD-CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 607,567, dated July 19, 1898. Application filed May 7, 1896. Serial No. 590,575. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: at a right angle, the end of said arm having Be it known that I, WALLACE JORDAN, rea hole B, in which is fixed a link 0, which 55 siding at Emerald, in the county of St. Croix connects the arm B with a ring or ferrule D, and State of IVisconsin, have invented a new said ring or ferrule having an eye D, to which and useful Board-Clamp, of which the followthe link is attached.

ing is a specification. Now in operation the grip member A is This invention is an improved device for placed upon the rear edge of either of the 60 use in straightening boards prior to nailing studs or posts F, G, or II and a lever E placed them to studding or posts. in the ring or ferrule D. The lever is then It is a common thing for boards to warp or placed across the top edge of the board to be bend between the ends, and when said boards straightened and pressure applied to the outer v are used it is necessary to either saw the board end, and as the grip A is arranged below the 65 into pieces or employ a clamp to straighten it. top edge of said board it is clear that said The clamps for this purpose are expensive and board will be brought straight with the other I 5 require considerable time to operate them. boards, as the membcrA grips the stud or post The object of my invention is to provide a tightly, and thereby prevents the rear end of reversible clamp which can be quickly and the lever from rising. After the board has 7o easily applied to studding or posts on either been straightened at one stud or post it can side and operated to force the board to a be instantly detached and placed upon anstraight line prior to nailing, said clamp beother; if so desired.

ing simple and cheap in construction, small It will be readily apparent that the clamp enough to be carried in the tool-chest, and may be engaged on the post to bring the ring 75 easily operated by unskilled laborers, obviat- D on either side thereof, as shown in Fig. 1, ing the expense of a skilled mechanic to opthe clamp 011 post F being arranged to bring crate it; the ring D on the right-hand side and that Another object is to provide a clamp which on post G to bring the ring on the left-hand can be operated with one hand while the other side. It will be further obvious that the han- 80 is used for nailing, and which will entirely dle may be so placed in the ring as to permit avoid the necessity of providing screws or of its use from either side of the fence, as

bolts for adjusting it. illustrated in Fig. 1.

WVith these objects in View my invention Having thus fully described my invention, consists in the peculiar construction of the what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 85 various parts and in their novel combination Letters Patent of the United States, is and arrangement, all of which will be fully A board-clamping device, comprising a 3 5 described hereinafter and pointed out inthe clamping member, A, formed of thesides A claim. and A and end A the side A being longer In the drawings forming apart of this specithan the side A and having near its end a 90 fication, Figure 1 is a perspective view illuslaterally projecting arm provided with an trating the invention in use, showing how it. aperture near its end, a ferrule, provided may be applied for use on either side of a post. with an eye and adapted to receive an oper- Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the clamp ating-lever, a link, loosely connecting the eye detached, with the handle removed. Fig. 3 is of the ferrule and laterally-projecting arm, 95 a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, whereby the clamping member can be relooking in the direction of the arrow. versed to bring the operating-lever on either In carrying out my invention I employ a side of the stud or post and the device used gripping memberA,which is made in the form with the operating-lever parallel with or at of three sides of an open square or rectangle right angles to the clamping member, sub- I00 and comprises the sides A A and back A stantially as shown and described. said sides and back having considerable depth and thickness in order to secure a firm grip WALLACE J and strengthen the member. The side A is Witnesses: made somewhat longer than the side A and W. A. SUTHERLAND, has an arm B projecting laterally therefrom WVILLIAM LOURIE.

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