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  DF  CLASS NOTES
1  DF  HAND MANEUVERED OR WORK SUPPORTED TOOL GUIDES
2  DF  .~ Relatively movable jaws
3  DF  OPERATOR SUPPORTED
4  DF  .~ Convertible to bench supported
5  DF  .~ With opening through handle for work supply
6  DF  .~ Handle manipulation for jaw actuation
7  DF  SOLIDIFICATION OF WORK CONTACTING MEDIUM
8  DF  MAGNETIC HOLDER
9  DF  PLURAL SELECTIVELY USED HOLDERS
10  DF  .~ Work stop abutment
11  DF  WITH HOLDER ILLUMINATING MEANS
12  DF  WITH DRY RUN WORK DRIVING MEANS
13  DF  WITH PRODUCT DISCHARGE FACILITATOR
14  DF  .~ Product mover
15  DF  WITH CATCH PAN
16  DF  WITH PART OR TOOL HOLDING RECEPTACLE
17  DF  WITH GROUND TRAVERSING MEANS
19  DF  WITH PLUMB INDICATOR
20  DF  WITH FLUID MEANS
21  DF  .~ Vacuum-type holding means
22  DF  .~ With movable diaphragm
23  DF  .~ With safety means
24  DF  .~ Plural positioning means sequentially operated
25  DF  .~ Cylinder-piston means directly moves jaw(s)
26  DF  .~.~ With equalized pressure on plural (nonopposed) jaws
27  DF  .~ Cylinder-piston means in series with additional positioning means
28  DF  .~.~ With separate air means in series with liquid means
29  DF  .~.~ Including self-contained manual pump means
30  DF  .~.~ With common fluid means for holding and releasing
31  DF  .~.~.~ Cylinder-piston unit rotatably and/or pivotally mounted
32  DF  .~.~ Mechanical means between fluid means and jaw
33  DF  .~.~.~ Including opposed cylinder-piston means
34  DF  .~.~.~ Single fluid unit moves plural spaced jaws
35  DF  .~ With guide means
36  DF  FENCE BOARD HOLDER AND GAUGE
37  DF  PLURAL HOLDERS TO HOLD WORKPIECES RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER
38  DF  .~ Fletching jig (i.e., arrow feathering holder)
40  DF  .~ Fixed work-contacting portions for each holder
41  DF  .~ Workpieces normal to each other (e.g., miter clamps)
42  DF  .~.~ Means for simultaneous actuation of holders
43  DF  .~ Workpieces parallel to each other (e.g., box-shook clamp)
44  DF  .~.~ Three holders
45  DF  .~ With means to relatively array or arrange holders
46  DF  SUSPENDED HOLDER
47  DF  HOLDER INSERTED WITHIN WORK APERTURE
48  DF  .~ With tool couple element
48.1  DF  .~ Expandable mandrel
48.2  DF  .~.~ Plural pin mandrel
48.3  DF  .~.~.~ Having intermediate expanding means
48.4  DF  .~.~.~.~ And coil spring
49  DF  .~ Inserted holder movable relative to work backup
50  DF  .~ Holder mounted for movement
51  DF  .~.~ Compound or plural movement
52  DF  .~ Within concentric opening
53  DF  PIN-TYPE HOLDER
54  DF  .~ With work-overlying clamp
54.1  DF  .~ With means to drive pin into work
54.2  DF  .~.~ Including opposed coacting pins
54.3  DF  .~.~.~ Three or more pins
54.4  DF  .~ With work-underlying support
54.5  DF  .~.~ Pin perpendicularly extended
55  DF  HOLDER MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT
56  DF  .~ Relative to a station
57  DF  .~.~ Rotary (e.g., dial type)
58  DF  .~ Including means to shift holder position
59  DF  .~.~ With means to lock shift means
60  DF  .~.~ Screw means
61  DF  .~.~ Gear means
62  DF  .~.~ Treadle means
63  DF  .~ With indexing steps
64  DF  .~.~ Corrugated
65  DF  .~.~ Threaded
66  DF  .~.~ Cam or eccentric means
67  DF  .~.~ Pin-rack
68  DF  .~.~ Pawl-rack
69  DF  .~.~ Peg-hole
70  DF  .~.~.~ With bias means
71  DF  .~ With plural means for changing holder positions
72  DF  .~.~ Single lock for plural means
73  DF  .~.~ Means for dual position only
74  DF  .~ Means for position lock
75  DF  .~.~ For universal joint
76  DF  .~.~ Set screw type
77  DF  .~.~ Periphery clamp type
78  DF  .~.~.~ Split ring type
79  DF  .~.~ Effective on a movable brace
80  DF  .~.~ For yoke type
81  DF  .~.~ Of holder to table (i.e., reference base or wall)
82  DF  .~.~ Plane bearing surfaces clamped together
83  DF  .~.~.~ Radial bearing surface type
84  DF  .~.~.~.~ Central clamp
85  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural clamps
86  DF  RELATIVELY MOVABLE JAWS
87  DF  .~ With tool couple element
87.1  DF  .~.~ With guide means
87.2  DF  .~.~.~ Slot type
87.3  DF  .~.~.~ Hole type
88  DF  .~ Convertible to other type or form of holder
89  DF  .~ Jaw actuation locks holder position relative to base
90  DF  .~ With separate means to lock jaw(s) after actuation
91  DF  .~ Clamp couple element with fastening means
92  DF  .~.~ With plural actuating means
93  DF  .~.~ Responsive to element actuating means
94  DF  .~.~ Rocking-element type
95  DF  .~ With means to fasten holder to support (e.g., portable)
96  DF  .~.~ Wrench or plier type of work holder
97  DF  .~.~ Clamp type fastening means
98  DF  .~.~.~ Unitary fastener-jaw and holder-jaw
99  DF  .~.~ Socket type fastening means
100  DF  .~.~.~ Aperture in support
101  DF  .~.~ Threaded fastening means
102  DF  .~.~ Nail or spur fastening means
103  DF  .~ For cable about thimble (e.g., rigger's vise)
104  DF  .~ Plural jaw pairs, angularly oriented, for common work
105  DF  .~.~ Three jaw couples in three nonparallel planes
106  DF  .~.~.~ With actuating means for each couple
107  DF  .~.~ Interrelated actuating means
108  DF  .~.~.~ Constricting loop common to plural jaw pairs
109  DF  .~.~.~ Four relatively movable corner-angled jaws
110  DF  .~.~ One actuated jaw carries a second actuated jaw
111  DF  .~.~ Quadrilateral frame type
112  DF  .~.~.~ Diagonally moved jaw
113  DF  .~.~.~ Plural actuating means for one side
114  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural actuators on each of two sides
115  DF  .~.~.~ Actuator located at corner
116  DF  .~.~.~.~ Actuators at diagonal corners
117  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Actuator at each corner
118  DF  .~.~.~ Actuated jaw couples perpendicularly related
119  DF  .~.~.~.~ Actuator for each side
120  DF  .~.~.~ One couple adjusted and one couple actuated
121  DF  .~.~.~ Adjustment means intermediate ends of side
122  DF  .~.~.~ Adjustment means including attached wedge means
123  DF  .~.~.~.~ Wedge means attached by chain
124  DF  .~.~.~ Adjustment means at diagonal corners
125  DF  .~.~.~.~ Adjustment means at four corners
126  DF  .~ Including pivoted yoke frame jaw carrier
127  DF  .~.~ With specific latch means
128  DF  .~.~.~ Latch means includes jaw actuating element(s)
129  DF  .~.~ With jaw actuating means intermediate yoke legs
130  DF  .~ Including constrictable loop (strand or articulated) jaw
131  DF  .~.~ Flaccid loop
132  DF  .~.~ With means to actuate a coacting jaw
133  DF  .~ Weight of a vertically disposed panel actuates jaws
134  DF  .~ With means for "hold-down" component of force
135  DF  .~.~ With rockable work contacting member
136  DF  .~.~ Moved by linearly acting jaw
137  DF  .~.~ Inclined actuator and/or jaw travel
138  DF  .~.~ With wedge or cam means
139  DF  .~ With means to align coacting jaw faces
140  DF  .~ With separate positioning means for each of jaw pair
141  DF  .~.~ Adjustable positioning only
142  DF  .~.~ Separate means to actuate each of a jaw pair
143  DF  .~.~.~ Portable C-clamp type
145  DF  .~.~.~ Same actuator type for each jaw
146  DF  .~.~ Means to both actuate and adjust the same jaw
147  DF  .~.~ Portable straight beam type
148  DF  .~.~.~ Plural parallel beams
149  DF  .~.~.~ Extensible beam
150  DF  .~.~ Pivoted jaw actuator means
151  DF  .~ With means to orient actuating force on jaws
152  DF  .~ Plural jaw pairs
153  DF  .~.~ With common actuating means
154  DF  .~.~ One jaw common to plural coacting jaws
155  DF  .~.~ Acting in intersecting planes
156  DF  .~ Three coacting work grippers
157  DF  .~ With means to bias jaw(s) toward nonholding position
158  DF  .~.~ Pedal lever actuator
159  DF  .~.~.~ Including position latch or lock
160  DF  .~.~ Spring coil around actuating screw
161  DF  .~.~ Leaf spring between pivoted jaws
162  DF  .~.~ Spring coil around or abutting cam or cam follower
163  DF  .~.~ With articulated attachment or insert for jaws
164  DF  .~ With means for lateral adjustment of jaw portions
165  DF  .~ Means for direct manual adjustment of jaw(s)
166  DF  .~.~ With cant type adjustment lock
167  DF  .~.~.~ Including separate cant member
168  DF  .~.~.~.~ Means for skewing plural members to actuate jaw(s)
169  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plus additional means to release cant lock
170  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to bias member into locked position
171  DF  .~.~.~ Including interlocking abutting surfaces
171.5  DF  .~.~.~ With tooth-like surface engaging a planar surface
172  DF  .~.~ With relative axial shift of screw-nut actuating means
173  DF  .~.~.~ Split nut type
174  DF  .~.~.~.~ With separate means for lateral motion of segments
175  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including weight biased lever
176  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Common to spaced parallel screw means
177  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Control travels with screw
178  DF  .~.~.~.~ With screw mounted means for lateral segment motion
179  DF  .~.~.~ With longitudinally rockable actuating screw
180  DF  .~.~.~.~ Direct hand tilt
181  DF  .~.~.~ Half nut type
182  DF  .~.~.~.~ With separate means for lateral nut-screw motion
183  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With pedal means
184  DF  .~.~.~ Interrupted thread type
185  DF  .~.~.~.~ Antipodal screw thread sectors
186  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rack-like nut thread sector
187  DF  .~.~.~.~ With continuous screw thread
188  DF  .~.~ With common means to both lock and actuate jaw(s)
189  DF  .~.~.~ Screw-nut type
190  DF  .~.~.~.~ With wedge means in the lock mechanism
191  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Roll or ball gripping element
192  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With pawl-rack immobilization means
193  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Pivotal or rockable pawl
194  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pawl-rack adjustment lock
195  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ To immobilize nut
196  DF  .~.~.~ Cam or eccentric type
197  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural cams in series
198  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cam in series with diverse actuator
199  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural cam surfaces
200  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including radial face and/or axial follower feature(s)
201  DF  .~.~.~ Toggle type
202  DF  .~.~.~ Rack-pinion sector
203  DF  .~.~ With clamp (or friction) type adjustment-lock
204  DF  .~.~.~ Pivoted eccentric for applying lock
205  DF  .~.~.~ Plus additional means to release lock
206  DF  .~.~.~ Deformable elastic plug gripping element
207  DF  .~.~ With detent type adjustment-lock
208  DF  .~.~.~ Peg-hole
209  DF  .~.~.~.~ For pivoted jaw
210  DF  .~.~.~ Movable rack
211  DF  .~.~.~ Pin-rack
212  DF  .~.~.~ Pawl-rack
213  DF  .~.~.~.~ Detent positionable by rocking of screw actuator
214  DF  .~.~.~.~ With lever type actuator acting through pawl
215  DF  .~.~.~.~ Spring urged pawl
216  DF  .~ Means to actuate jaw(s) (i.e., apply holding force)
217  DF  .~.~ Work camming or wedging action type
218  DF  .~.~ With common means for each of coacting jaws
219  DF  .~.~.~ Spaced parallel screw means
220  DF  .~.~.~.~ With specific means for angular positioning of jaws
221  DF  .~.~ Plural means for one jaw
222  DF  .~.~.~ Plural intergeared screw-nut actuating means
223  DF  .~.~.~ Including means to move nut
224  DF  .~.~ With yieldable means in actuation train
225  DF  .~.~ Gear type
226  DF  .~.~.~ Worm
227  DF  .~.~.~ Rack and pinion
228  DF  .~.~ Toggle type
229  DF  .~.~ Cam, eccentric or wedge type
230  DF  .~.~.~ With position latch
231  DF  .~.~.~ Cam surface is jaw face
232  DF  .~.~.~ Including radial face and/or axial follower feature
233  DF  .~.~.~ Including cam slot or groove
234  DF  .~.~.~ Slidable wedge
235  DF  .~.~.~ Eccentric cylinder or disc
236  DF  .~.~.~ Cam on end pivoted hand lever
237  DF  .~.~ For pivoted jaw(s)
238  DF  .~.~.~ First class lever action type
239  DF  .~.~.~ Third class lever action type
240  DF  .~.~ Screw-nut type
241  DF  .~.~.~ Differentially threaded
242  DF  .~.~.~ Right and left threaded
243  DF  .~.~.~ Rotating nut means
244  DF  .~.~.~ Screw held at ends for rotation only
245  DF  .~.~.~ With means for relative rotation of elements
246  DF  .~.~.~ Screw travels with jaw
247  DF  .~.~.~.~ Screw within traveling box-beam guide
248  DF  .~.~.~.~ With separable or replaceable nut means
249  DF  .~.~.~.~ C-clamp type
250  DF  .~.~.~.~ Means to keep faces parallel and/or translate jaw
251  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Flange and/or slot
252  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Traveling means parallel to screw
253  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Plural traveling elements coplanar with screw
254 R  DF  .~.~ Bias type (e.g., weight, spring, resilience)
254 DF  DF  .~.~.~ Dental flask
254 D  DF  .~.~.~ Drawing board
254 CS  DF  .~.~.~ Coil spring
254 MW  DF  .~.~.~ Movable weighted member
256  DF  .~ With paralleling mechanism for jaws
257  DF  .~ Jaw features
258  DF  .~.~ Angularly alignable
259  DF  .~.~.~ Attachments and/or inserts
260  DF  .~.~.~.~ With hook type fastener means
261  DF  .~.~.~.~ With socket type fastener means
262  DF  .~.~.~.~ With threaded type fastener means
263  DF  .~.~.~.~ With yieldable type fastener means
264  DF  .~.~.~.~ Loosely positioned between coacting jaws
265  DF  .~.~ Plural spaced work contacting portions
266  DF  .~.~.~ Settable elements conformable to work contour
267  DF  .~.~.~ With pressure equalizing means
268  DF  .~.~.~ Angular and/or curved jaw face
269  DF  .~.~.~.~ Opposed jaw faces diversely shaped
270  DF  .~.~.~.~ Complementary to work configuration
271  DF  .~.~ Attachment(s) and/or insert(s)
272  DF  .~.~.~ Interdigitated
273  DF  .~.~.~ Named material
274  DF  .~.~.~.~ Nonmetallic
275  DF  .~.~.~ Yieldable element
276  DF  .~.~.~ With magnetic fastening means
277  DF  .~.~.~ Coacting elements loosely positioned between jaws
278  DF  .~.~.~.~ Elements jointed by a pivot or link
279  DF  .~.~.~ Selective
280  DF  .~.~.~.~ By substitution
281  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With yieldable type fastener means
282  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With threaded type fastener means
283  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With socket type fastener means
284  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With detent type fastener means
285  DF  .~ Specific means for wear, strain, protection, assembly
286  DF  .~ Specific material(s) used for holder
287  DF  HOLDER ENCLOSES WORK
288  DF  .~ With tool couple element
289 R  DF  WORK-UNDERLYING SUPPORT
290  DF  .~ With tool couple element
291  DF  .~.~ With work-stop abutment
292  DF  .~.~ Element projectable through support
293  DF  .~.~ In support surface
294  DF  .~.~.~ Cylindrical element
295  DF  .~.~.~ Guiding slot for horizontally moving tool
296  DF  .~ Gapped support
297  DF  .~.~ With movable work-stop abutment
298  DF  .~.~.~ Abutment movable in gap
299  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural separately mounted slidable abutments
300  DF  .~.~.~.~ With abutment position indicator
301  DF  .~.~.~.~ With abutment lock
302  DF  .~.~ Enclosed gap
302.1  DF  .~ Mixing or kneading board
303  DF  .~ With work-stop abutment
304  DF  .~.~ Attached to movable support portion
305  DF  .~.~ Multiple direction restrainer
306  DF  .~.~ Suspended abutment
307  DF  .~ With sight gage
308  DF  .~ With work supply supporting means
309  DF  .~ Support mounting means
310  DF  .~.~ Support resiliently urged upwardly
311  DF  .~.~ Means to hold plural support blocks
312  DF  .~.~.~ By through rod
313  DF  .~.~.~.~ Blocks enclosed by holder
314  DF  .~.~.~ Blocks enclosed by holder
289 MR  DF  .~ Movable roller
315  DF  WORK-STOP ABUTMENT
316  DF  .~ Vertically compressible abutment
317  DF  .~ Resiliently urged abutment
318  DF  .~ Abutment mounted between spaced parallel arms
319  DF  .~ Plural spaced abutment surfaces
320  DF  .~ With motor drive abutment moving means
329  DF  MISCELLANEOUS
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900  DF  SUPPORTING STRUCTURE HAVING WORK HOLDER RECEIVING APERTURES OR PROJECTIONS
901  DF  COLLAPSIBLE OR FOLDABLE WORK HOLDER SUPPORTING STRUCTURE
902  DF  WORK HOLDER MEMBER WITH V-SHAPED NOTCH OR GROOVE
903  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ASSEMBLAGES OR WIRING SYSTEMS
904  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR POSITIONING ELEMENTS OF BUILDING IN INSTALLED LOCATION
905  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR DOORS AND DOOR FRAMES
906  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR SKIS
907  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR FISHING FLIES
908  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR CATHODE-RAY TUBES
909  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR SPECIFIC WORK
910  DF  WORK HOLDER FOR PREFABRICATED ROOF TRUSS OR WALL FRAME