Bar Clamp with Die-Formed Notches: Hargrave, 1927

A cabinetmaker's bar clamp has a screw-adjusted jaw at one end of a bar and a sliding jaw held by a pawl in teeth along the bar. Teeth cut into the bar's edge weaken it, cannot be spaced closely, and wear until the pawl slips. John M. Hargrave of Cincinnati patented the fix in 1927, US 1,638,848: use an I-section bar and press a row of depressions into the side of its web with dies. Each depression has an abrupt, deep shoulder for the pawl and a sloping face away from it. Nothing is cut away, the corrugations stiffen the bar, the notches can be close together, and pressing them is cheaper than cutting.

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Workshop process

手順

Form the notches

Press a row of spaced depressions into the web of the I-section bar with a die in a press. Each has an abrupt wall or shoulder at one end and a sloping face towards the other.

このステップの材料:

I形断面クランプバー1 個

必要な工具:

金属プレス機

切欠き成形型

Screw jaw

Fit the clamp member with an I-shaped recess snugly over one end of the bar; its position is set by the screw.

このステップの材料:

ねじ式締付けあご1 個

Pawl slider

Slide on the body with its I-shaped recess and clamp face. Pivot the pawl on a pin across the aperture in its side, with a shoulder that rocks against the front face of the aperture to take the strain off the pin. The pawl's point abuts the shoulders of the depressions and drags over the sloping faces when the slider is moved.

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