A very simple system with no screw thread to wear out.
Pull, push, twist to lock and unlock.
Any information greatly appreciated.
Cheers Andy
It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 01:22
Mike G wrote:Does it work?
Rezi wrote:If there is no winding mechanism how does it exert a clamping force?
AndyT wrote:Thinking that there might be a US patent for this design, like it says on the vice itself, I had a look on Datamp. There was nothing in the patents belonging to the Oliver company but I did find this one in the vices. Dated 1909 and belonging to the Abernathy Vise and Tool company.
https://datamp.org/patents/search/advan ... 644&set=36
Is this describing your vise?
Edited to add: Here is an advert for the Abernathy vise from the Hardware Dealers association
https://archive.org/details/AbernathyVi ... 1/mode/1up
Trevanion wrote:Being a complete saddo, I have an Oliver Woodworking Machinery catalogue from 1922. Although I bought it from a shop here, It's interestingly from Australia rather than here, " SOLE AGENTS, Goodall & Co LTD, 303-305 Kent Street, Sydney" is stamped on the front and on a few pages inside, It's made a very long journey possibly from America to Australia to Britain to finally end up in my possession! Unfortunately, there's no mention of the vice shown by Andy but there's a couple of others:
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