Patent ID: 8925435
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B21D,B26D,B26F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A solid tool gripping and alignment plate, for accurately gripping and holding only a single tool placed therein in a perfect circle, the tool gripping and alignment plate consisting of: a flat unitary single-tool gripping plate for gripping only a single tool in a non-circular opening in the gripping plate, the gripping plate having a gap thereacross to define the non-circular opening; the non-circular opening formed in the tool gripping plate, for contactingly gripping a single tool therein about a single tool's periphery upon adjustment of the gripping plate; an elongated biasing means consisting of a single threaded adjustment member having a longitudinal axis, the biasing means arranged through a side of the gripping plate, with its longitudinal axis in alignment with the gap in the circular opening, for biasing a “J”-shaped finger member portion of the non-circular opening in the tool gripping plate to change the tool gripping portion of the non-circular opening from a non-circular shape into a perfect circle shaped opening for circumferentially gripping a tool therearound.