Patent ID: 8366089
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: B25B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bar clamp comprising: a handgrip; a first moveable jaw carrier comprising a first jaw; a slide bar comprising two opposite wing members; a second moveable jaw carrier disposed in front of the first moveable jaw carrier and comprising a second jaw, a transverse channel, a trough extending from an intermediate portion of the channel to one end of the channel, a recess opposing the second jaw, and two opposite stop members in the recess wherein the slide bar passes the channel with the wing members being stopped by the trough in a locked position; and a spring-actuated lock assembly slidably mounted in the recess and having a longitudinal section of U, the lock assembly comprising inverted U-shaped opposite first and second lock members being engaged with the wing members in the locked position, a first projection between the first lock member and a bottom of the lock assembly, and a second projection between the second lock member and the bottom of the lock assembly, the first and second projections being engaged with the stop members in the locked position, whereby pushing the locking assembly until being stopped will disengage the first and second lock members from the wing members to dispose both the slide bar and the second moveable jaw carrier in an unlocked position.