Patent ID: 8122803

Claim:
A vise assembly for use with a guide fence provided on a base of a cutting machine for positioning a workpiece over the base, the vise assembly comprising: a pressing part configured to be capable of moving upward and downward and fixed at a desired height in a position protrusively frontward of the guide fence; a second pressing part configured to be capable of moving along the guide fence upward and downward and fixed at a desired height, wherein one of the pressing part and the second pressing part is selected for use in holding the workpiece down from above; and a guide rod disposed upright in a position fixed relative to the guide fence, wherein the pressing part has an arm mounted on a periphery of the guide rod, and a feed screw, the arm being disposed perpendicularly to the guide rod, and being capable of moving along the guide rod and fixed at a desired height when the arm is laid such that one of first and second ends of the arm faces frontward while the other faces rearward, and the feed screw being screwed vertically in a first-end portion of the arm closer to the first end, a lower end of the feed screw having a metal part; and the second pressing part being provided at a second-end portion of the arm closer to the second end, and one of the pressing part and the second pressing part being selected by changing a direction of the arm with respect to the guide rod between a direction in which the first end faces frontward and a direction in which the second end faces frontward.