.~.~ With means providing for plural steps in clamping stroke
DEFINITION
Classification: 83/457
(under subclass 452) Device including means which necessarily results in, or whose disclosed purpose is to permit, successive applications of force, including gravitational, to the clamp in its clamping stroke.
(1) Note. Included in this subclass are disclosures of clamps which are provided with separate actuating linkages or power trains, one of which is intended to be utilized initially for rapidly moving a clamp jaw to approximate position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
379, for interrelated tool actuating means and means to provide plural steps in clamping stroke.
