Patent ID: 6896249

Claim:
A vise for holding a plurality of work pieces onto a support surface, the vise comprising: a) a base with a long axis, and a bottom surface for contact with the support surface; b) securing means for bolting the base to the support surface; c) a plurality of stationary jaws with means for removably affixing to the base at selectable positions along the long axis with jaw faces transverse to the long axis; d) a plurality of movable jaw assemblies slidably mounted in the base for translatory motion along the long axis with jaw faces transverse to the long axis; e) a first adjustment means in each jaw assembly for coarse adjustment of the position of the assembly along the long axis for snugly engaging the work piece between the stationary and movable jaw faces; and f) a pressure mechanism for forcing all of the movable jaw assemblies in a common direction along the long axis toward their corresponding stationary jaws for thereby applying substantially uniform high pressure to all of the movable jaws simultaneously.