Patent ID: 7824425

Claim:
An ambidextrous locking clamp system for providing a user the ability to alter the configuration of a hand operated device allowing a right hand or left hand user to operate the device, said ambidextrous locking clamp system comprising: a first elongated member having a finger engaging member and a working head, said finger engaging member of said first elongated member having at least one first elongated member indicator for identifying at least one side of said ambidextrous locking clamp system; a second elongated member having a finger engaging member and a working head, said second elongated member being hingedly connected to said first elongated member, said finger engaging member of said second elongated member having at least one second elongated member indicator for identifying at least one side of said ambidextrous locking clamp system; and at least two latching members, wherein at least one of said latching members being removably attached to one of said first elongated member and said second elongated member, said latching members being adapted to removably engage each other, and each being adapted so that said first and second elongated member indicators of said first and second elongated members are each viewable through a corresponding latching member notch defined in a base of said latching member when said latching member is attached thereto respectively; wherein said first and second elongated members each comprising an elongated member notch, and at least one protrusion extending into said elongated member notch respectively, and wherein said latching members each having at least one channel defined along said base, said base being receivable in said elongated member notch of said first and second elongated members, said channel each having a shape corresponding to said protrusion of said first and second elongated members and being configured to receive said protrusion of said first and second elongated members respectively.