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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lev Kovalsky, Hamilton, CA;
Assignee:
Tridon Limited, Burlington, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73862541 ; 73832 ;
Abstract
Three relatively movable fingers fit in a clamp at a preselected test diameter and pivot in response to a load transferred by the clamp. Load cells responds to the movement of the levers and the forces transmitted are displayed. In a preferred embodiment, the pivots are mounted to brackets which are fixed to the jaws of a chuck so as to be simultaneously movable to pre-selected spaced positions corresponding to the test diameter of the clamp.