Patent ID: 7494097

Claim:
A transportable clamp assembly adapted to receive and to support a mixing receptacle, such as a five gallon bucket having a cylindrical receptacle wall, and to hold the receptacle securely in place during mixing of slurry-like products, said clamp assembly comprising: an elongated substantially planar base plate having a base plate upper surface; a first front clamping support member fixedly secured to said base plate and having a first arc-shaped inner clamping surface oriented to face a center of said planar base plate, said first inner clamping surface being sized to engage an outer surface of the cylindrical receptacle wall; a second, opposing, hingedly movable rear clamping support member having a second arc-shaped inner clamping surface oriented to face said center of said planar base plate, said second inner clamping surface being sized to engage the outer surface of the cylindrical receptacle wall, said first inner clamping surface and said second inner clamping surface cooperating to define a section of a circle; a lever arm having a proximal control surface and an opposing, distal rear clamping support member engagement surface; and means supporting said lever arm extends upwardly from said planar base plate to move said hingedly movable rear clamping support member and said second inner clamping surface between an open position and a closed, clamping position, said fixed front clamping support member first inner clamping surface being configured to clamp the receptacle in place when said second, hinpedly movable rear clamping member's second inner clamping surface swings in response to an application of a downwardly directed force on said proximal control surface of said lever arm to firmly squeeze the cylindrical wall of the receptacle during the mixing of the slurry-like products.