Patent ID: 11883916
Assignee: HDM HYDRAULICS, LLC
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A modular workpiece holding system comprising:
a top portion of a baseplate member disposed on a fixture base and arranged to have at least one wedge pair, each of the wedge pair having an opposingly facing fixed wedge assembly and dynamic wedge assembly;
each of the dynamic wedge assembly operationally coupled to at least one spring and piston assembly, each of the spring and piston assembly having at least one spring member, each of the spring and piston assembly disposed within a respective spring and piston assembly cavity of the fixture base;
each of the at least one spring member of each of the spring and piston assembly adapted to draw each of the dynamic wedge assembly axially towards the baseplate member wherein each of the dynamic wedge assembly, when the workpiece holding system is in a resting state, imparts a transverse force onto a workpiece member, pressing the workpiece member against each of the fixed wedge assembly, securing the workpiece to the workpiece holding system;
each of the spring and piston assembly adapted to release each of the dynamic wedge assembly and the workpiece member when the workpiece holding system is in an active state, the active state rendered by at least one of a gas and/or hydraulic fluid delivered by way of at least one port within the fixture base, the at least one of a gas and/or hydraulic fluid adapted to at least partly fill each of the respective spring and piston assembly cavity, pushing, therefore, by way of a piston member of each of the spring and piston assembly, each of the dynamic wedge assembly axially outward from the baseplate; the at least one of a gas and/or hydraulic fluid, when discharged from each of the respective spring and piston assembly cavity by way of the at least one port within the fixture base, adapted to reduce outward axial force imparted on each of the dynamic wedge assembly, whereupon each of the spring member is adapted to re-impart an inward axial force and, therefore, the traverse force of the resting state of each of the dynamic wedge assembly onto at least one or more of the same workpiece and a different workpiece; wherein a shape of each of the dynamic wedge assembly is adjustable.